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Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
2.0
I loved this book so much so that I intended to give it five stars. And then I got to the halfway point — and realised what a terribly preemptive assessment I'd made of a book I thought was going good places.
Imagine my surprise when suddenly, our heroine who takes no crap from a recent ex, and is pretty freaking badass — imagine she suddenly does a complete 180 for her personality, and falls prey to the much dreaded (yet often unavoidable) "insta-love". To say I was surprised would be a serious understatement. I was shocked. I felt betrayed.
And things only grew worse.
Because suddenly, I was thrust into an entirely different world with a different female lead, who I a) didn't like and b) felt zero connection to; a world filled with sexism, objectification, and an overall atmosphere of boring design. I didn't pick up this book to read another annoying 'boy-meets-girl-who-is-also-his-enemy's-daughter' novel. I've read Shakespeare. I know how it ends.
I knew how this book was going to end too. Romeo killed Tybalt, after all. Should we have expected any better from Akiva?
Two stars is generous. It's a rating fuelled by hope. May my hope never be lost again in a series so volatile— so confused— that I lose faith in the YA book scene.
Imagine my surprise when suddenly, our heroine who takes no crap from a recent ex, and is pretty freaking badass — imagine she suddenly does a complete 180 for her personality, and falls prey to the much dreaded (yet often unavoidable) "insta-love". To say I was surprised would be a serious understatement. I was shocked. I felt betrayed.
And things only grew worse.
Because suddenly, I was thrust into an entirely different world with a different female lead, who I a) didn't like and b) felt zero connection to; a world filled with sexism, objectification, and an overall atmosphere of boring design. I didn't pick up this book to read another annoying 'boy-meets-girl-who-is-also-his-enemy's-daughter' novel. I've read Shakespeare. I know how it ends.
I knew how this book was going to end too. Romeo killed Tybalt, after all. Should we have expected any better from Akiva?
Two stars is generous. It's a rating fuelled by hope. May my hope never be lost again in a series so volatile— so confused— that I lose faith in the YA book scene.