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si0bhan's review
4.0
I found Lips Touch at a crazy cheap price and jumped on the short story collection, desperate to get my fill of Laini Taylor’s beautiful work. Hatchling is the third and longest short story of the three in the collection, and as beautiful as the two other stories.
As you would expect from Laini Taylor, even though it’s a short story, we’re quickly thrown into some wonderful world building (there is a crazy amount of world building for such a short story, you really will question whether you’re reading a full-length novel) with her lyrical prose bringing her amazing imagination to life in no time at all. I’d been fearful we would not get the full works because it is such a short story but I couldn’t have been any further from the truth. So much happens in so few pages. We’re given an entire story, we’re given characters we can love, we’re given mythology (as with the other books in the collection, it shouldn’t have been possible for her to fit so much into so few pages), we’re given emotion – in short, we’re given it all.
As always, it’s a wonderful Laini Taylor read.
As you would expect from Laini Taylor, even though it’s a short story, we’re quickly thrown into some wonderful world building (there is a crazy amount of world building for such a short story, you really will question whether you’re reading a full-length novel) with her lyrical prose bringing her amazing imagination to life in no time at all. I’d been fearful we would not get the full works because it is such a short story but I couldn’t have been any further from the truth. So much happens in so few pages. We’re given an entire story, we’re given characters we can love, we’re given mythology (as with the other books in the collection, it shouldn’t have been possible for her to fit so much into so few pages), we’re given emotion – in short, we’re given it all.
As always, it’s a wonderful Laini Taylor read.
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