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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
Okay, I wasn't sure what to think about this collection after the first two stories. I loved "Goblin Fruit", but found "Spicy Little Curses Such As These Annoying". Sorry, I don't care about British Colonials in India since they were bad people. And you can tell this book is oldish because how could Laini Taylor say a white girl was the most "beautiful" girl in all of India?? And then naming a demon after Krishna's father Vasudeva??
But then the last story came. It honestly took the breath out of me. Might be the best thing Taylor has written.
But then the last story came. It honestly took the breath out of me. Might be the best thing Taylor has written.
July 2013: i was not expecting that
2016: Laini Taylor is so damn creative it kills me
2016: Laini Taylor is so damn creative it kills me
I liked this one a lot. Not as much as Daughter of Smoke and Bone, but I could see some of the same lyrical language in this one that I loved so much in DoSaB. Laini Taylor's stories are always very imaginative, unlike nothing I have ever read about before. Glad I read this.
All great and original tales; dark and adventurous
Laini Taylor has such a way with words. Devoured these short stories ❤️
I only heard of Laini Taylor this year, and the first book I read was Daughter of Smoke and Bones - which I loved. When I saw Lips Touch in the bookstore I thought I’d give it a try. I’m so happy I did!
Written in usual Laini style, Lips Touch Three Times is an anthology of three short stories, all dealing with that scary yet wonderful thing - the first kiss. Each story is completely different from the next. Each story takes you to a different part of the world, to a different time and to a different myth.
The first story is about Kizzy, a girl whose loneliness seeps through the pages and makes you feel sadness for her, a girl whose longing attracts the worse kind of fae. While this one was my least favourite - I didn’t like the abrupt ending - Laini’s descriptive writing allows the reader to feel all that Kizzy feels and, in a way, understand why she does the things she does.
The second takes the reader to India and the underworld and introduces an Englishwoman, Estelle, who is working with a demon - bartering for the souls of children. This short story has complex, three dimensional characters and was intriguing from the beginning - when Estelle delivers a curse on a baby - to the end - when that baby, now a young girl, wonders if she should push the limits of the curse. In my opinion, the ending was wonderfully thought out and executed.
The final story - and my personal favourite - introduces you to the dark world of the Druj, where human feelings are longed for, but never understood. This is the longest story in the collection; it is also the darkest. Mab, a prisoner of the Druj from childhood, manages to escape with her daughter and has been hiding from the Druj since. When a Druj she trusted enters her life again and tries to take her daughter away, the reason isn’t what Mab - or the reader - expects.
Lips Touch Three Times is just a sampling of Laini’s beautiful writing and promises to leave the reader wanting more.
Written in usual Laini style, Lips Touch Three Times is an anthology of three short stories, all dealing with that scary yet wonderful thing - the first kiss. Each story is completely different from the next. Each story takes you to a different part of the world, to a different time and to a different myth.
The first story is about Kizzy, a girl whose loneliness seeps through the pages and makes you feel sadness for her, a girl whose longing attracts the worse kind of fae. While this one was my least favourite - I didn’t like the abrupt ending - Laini’s descriptive writing allows the reader to feel all that Kizzy feels and, in a way, understand why she does the things she does.
The second takes the reader to India and the underworld and introduces an Englishwoman, Estelle, who is working with a demon - bartering for the souls of children. This short story has complex, three dimensional characters and was intriguing from the beginning - when Estelle delivers a curse on a baby - to the end - when that baby, now a young girl, wonders if she should push the limits of the curse. In my opinion, the ending was wonderfully thought out and executed.
The final story - and my personal favourite - introduces you to the dark world of the Druj, where human feelings are longed for, but never understood. This is the longest story in the collection; it is also the darkest. Mab, a prisoner of the Druj from childhood, manages to escape with her daughter and has been hiding from the Druj since. When a Druj she trusted enters her life again and tries to take her daughter away, the reason isn’t what Mab - or the reader - expects.
Lips Touch Three Times is just a sampling of Laini’s beautiful writing and promises to leave the reader wanting more.
Really good book. Strange and different, but fascinating. And there's kissing, so that's always good.
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Three beautifully written stories. Each one better then the last. Imagination and love swirls within, the intriguing plots and characters just make it all the better.
Three beautifully written stories. Each one better then the last. Imagination and love swirls within, the intriguing plots and characters just make it all the better.
The second story was my favourite, but damn Laini Taylor inspires me so, every word she writes is just so beautiful I cannot. I can't wait to return to her talespinning with wonder in the Muse of Nightmares.