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A review by alialu
Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor
5.0
2023 reread:
YA'd me all you want, but this is EXQUISIT. I remembered only scraps of it, and it was fantastic for a reread. Love its characters. Love the plot. Love the angst, because it feels real.
Love, love love Love.
Let's get a little bit more into it.
I think at this point I have to claim that Laini might me my favourite writer. The ambiences she creates have no paragon for me.
This book is easy to read. Putting aside the few "reversed time" chapters, that could be a bit confusing (but that I loved, it made it so interesting), it can be a fast an easy read. But every step of it is so filled with magic, witchlight (hmhm yes quoting Strange hmhm), pain, and HOPE. So much hope.
The romance is not central, even if it's the engine of everything that happened. Mik and Zuze are a ray of sunshine in a Castle of Monsters.
This is the book where everything gets built for the endgame. And it is awesomeeeee.
And for what I can remember the third one was even better?
Aaaaa.
Review on first read:
Awesomtistic.
My Gods, I don't know what it is with Laini. I don't know how it is that it is always while reading her books that I find myself with no time to read and take months to finish the book, but still, coming back at it even after weeks, after a single page I'm glued to the story for the little time I have.
Every damn part of her writing is worth it, and this second book was so much better than the first one in my opinion, DoS&B seemed only like the introduction to this marvel.
Can't wait to see what she does with the third one (also I am terrified)
YA'd me all you want, but this is EXQUISIT. I remembered only scraps of it, and it was fantastic for a reread. Love its characters. Love the plot. Love the angst, because it feels real.
Love, love love Love.
Let's get a little bit more into it.
I think at this point I have to claim that Laini might me my favourite writer. The ambiences she creates have no paragon for me.
This book is easy to read. Putting aside the few "reversed time" chapters, that could be a bit confusing (but that I loved, it made it so interesting), it can be a fast an easy read. But every step of it is so filled with magic, witchlight (hmhm yes quoting Strange hmhm), pain, and HOPE. So much hope.
The romance is not central, even if it's the engine of everything that happened. Mik and Zuze are a ray of sunshine in a Castle of Monsters.
This is the book where everything gets built for the endgame. And it is awesomeeeee.
And for what I can remember the third one was even better?
Aaaaa.
Review on first read:
Awesomtistic.
My Gods, I don't know what it is with Laini. I don't know how it is that it is always while reading her books that I find myself with no time to read and take months to finish the book, but still, coming back at it even after weeks, after a single page I'm glued to the story for the little time I have.
Every damn part of her writing is worth it, and this second book was so much better than the first one in my opinion, DoS&B seemed only like the introduction to this marvel.
Can't wait to see what she does with the third one (also I am terrified)