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dreams_of_attolia 's review for:
Lips Touch: Three Times
by Laini Taylor
The first story I can take or leave. I enjoyed the second story and really appreciated how things tied up at the end, but to say more would be spoilery. The third story I loved. Laini Taylor has a knack for creating really original fantastical worlds, with interesting histories and magic systems, and she nailed it again in "Hatchling." Everything about the world and the plot felt fresh. I never had that "I feel like I've read this before" sensation. The pacing is pretty spectacular. Taylor doles out information slowly, moving backwards and forwards in time, to keep you guessing. And yet at the same time, the steady action keeps the story fast-paced. Like in the Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy, the plot is BIG in terms of its span of time and the magnitude of the implications for the characters. Unlike DoSaB, however, this story is a few hundred pages and is blessedly free from the excessive, torturous emotional wallowing that trilogy is marred by.