nerfherder86 's review for:

Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor

5.0

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Oh. My. Goodness. This is one gorgeous book, & very romantic. It is beautifully illustrated in graphic novel style, where the story is told without words, but then comes the text after the images to fill in the gaps, and it's really cool. The book is not a novel but three stories that have at their heart a kiss--and the kiss can be magical or not, a good kiss or a bad kiss, but it's crucial to the story. The stories have a multicultural feel, melding elements of India and Russia and England and bits of distant religious lore and supernatural magic. From demons in Hell who force curses on babies in exchange for other children's souls (it's really not as dark as it sounds!), to star-crossed lovers who wait centuries to be reunited, to goblins and werewolves and immortal coldhearted beings who wish only to recapture their long-scattered souls, oh my, this is one heckuva book. ;-) So lyrically written, I had to keep going back and rereading passages that sung to me.