Showing posts with label Laini Taylor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Laini Taylor. Show all posts

1.02.2013

My Thoughts: Days of Blood and Starlight (Laini Taylor)

Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke and Bone, #2)


























Daughter of Smoke & Bone #2

Genre: Young Adult
Published: November 6, 2012
Source: Bought

Cover: GORGEOUS! LOVE IT!

My Thoughts:
So basically this review is going to go like this. If you haven't read Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Book #1) WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU WAITING FOR!?!? GO! NOW! The little reader inside of your brain is dying a little bit more every day that you pass that book up. Do you want to be a murderer? I think not. Then, when you finish that masterpiece, go pick up Days of Blood & Starlight!

If you've read Daughter of Smoke & Bone, you're probably wanting to know if the author succeeded in writing a worthwhile sequel that lived up to the brilliance, beauty and awe of the first. All I have to say is YES YES A MILLION TIMES YES!!! This book was JUST as good, dare I say better??  Twists, turns, laughs, cries, heart crushing devastation, tortured love, surprises around every turn, magic like you've never seen before... this book has EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING I SAY!! Laini Taylor's writing is unlike any I've ever read. The beauty of it is unparalleled.

Ahem. I liked it just a little.

Favorite Quotes:
I don't have one specific favorite quote. Every word of this book is my favorite.

Bottom Line:  5/5 I would give this book 10 stars if there were such a thing. Amazeballs. LOVED EVERY.SINGLE.WORD.

10.17.2012

Waiting on Wednesday: Days of Blood and Starlight

This little gem is hosted over at Breaking the Spine.

One book that I am DYING to get my hands on is:

Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor
(This is the sequel to Daughter of Smoke & Bone)

Days of Blood and Starlight (Daughter of Smoke and Bone, #2)(Quick GoodReads Overview)
In this stunning sequel to the highly acclaimed Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Karou must come to terms with who and what she is, and how far she'll go to avenge her people. Filled with heartbreak and beauty, mysteries and secrets, new characters and old favorites, Days of Blood and Starlight brings the richness, color and intensity of the first book to a brand new canvas.



The Why: Let's start with the cover. GORGEOUS.  Now.  Daughter of Smoke and Bone was one of my favorite reads this year. I FELL IN LOVE. Some of the best writing I've ever come across. Beautiful, lyrical, gut-wrenching, amazing. The world, the characters..oh my gosh. The first book ripped my heart right out of my chest.  And I CAN'T WAIT to see what this book does.  I need more of this world. I need more of these characters. I. NEED. MORE. Luckily I don't have TOOO long to wait.
Publication Date: 11/6/12

9.04.2012

Top Ten Tuesday (#8)

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish.

As a lover of lists, I could not resist.

This week's topic is:

 Top Ten Books On Your Fall TBR List:

1. Days of Blood and Starlight  by Laini Taylor.  (11-6) Daughter of Smoke and Bone was one of my top favorite reads this year. Magically breathtaking. This is probably the book that I'm most looking forward to this fall. The cover is stunning.
Days of Blood and Starlight (Daughter of Smoke and Bone, #2)

2. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater. (9-18)  I will read anything this particular author writes.  The Scorpio Races was another of my favorite reads this year. The Raven Boys sounds creepily awesome.
The Raven Boys (Raven Cycle, #1)
 
3. The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa. (10-23) The Iron Fey series is one of my favorites, I loved the world that Julie created and all the characters within. This spin-off sounds like a must read and from the excerpt I've read I'm pretty sure I'm right.

The Lost Prince (The Iron Fey: Call of the Forgotten, #1)
 
4. The Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus Book #3) by Rick Riordan. (10-2) Love love love Percy Jackson and all associated books, Greek mythology fiction at its best.

 
The Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus, #3)
 
5. Black City  by Elizabeth Richards. (11-13).  Another book on vampires? Sounds new, exciting and awesome, I'm in! Another great cover.
Black City (Black City, #1)
 
6. Notorious Nineteen  by Janet Evanovich. (11-20) This is book 354 in the Stephanie Plum Series...Okay #19. I know a lot of people who gave up on this series books ago. I'm hanging in there..for the sole reason that I have this persistent unending hope that someday, somehow, Stephanie Plum will stop being a slut and pick a man already! And by a man I mean RANGER. So I keep reading. Last book was a let down, the one before that was pretty good. I'm hoping this petal of a book won't have me throwing it across the room in annoyance. I've read this long, might as well continue on.
Notorious Nineteen (Stephanie Plum, #19)
 
 
7. Crewel by Gennifer Albin. (10-16) This book sounds AH-MAZING. I'll go ahead and list the goodreads blurb:
Crewel (Crewel World, #1)Incapable. Awkward. Artless.

That’s what the other girls whisper behind her back. But sixteen year-old Adelice Lewys has a secret: she wants to fail.

Gifted with the ability to weave time with matter, she’s exactly what the Guild is looking for, and in the world of Arras, being chosen as a Spinster is everything a girl could want. It means privilege, eternal beauty, and being something other than a secretary. It also means the power to embroider the very fabric of life. But if controlling what people eat, where they live and how many children they have is the price of having it all, Adelice isn’t interested.

Not that her feelings matter, because she slipped and wove a moment at testing, and they’re coming for her—tonight.

Now she has one hour to eat her mom’s overcooked pot roast. One hour to listen to her sister’s academy gossip and laugh at her Dad’s stupid jokes. One hour to pretend everything’s okay. And one hour to escape.

Because once you become a Spinster, there’s no turning back.
 
 
8. Carnival of Souls by Melissa Marr (9-4) I love carnivals and this book sounds like it's gonna be a wild awesome ride!
Carnival of Souls
 
 
9. Lover Reborn  by JR Ward (Black Dagger Brotherhood Series #10). (10-2) Now I realize the hardback of this book came out back in March. But seeing as I have all the paperbacks I had to wait. Love this series. Can't wait for more brotherhood action!! And I've heard what the next book is supposed to be about and I must say I AM SO FREAKIN EXCITED. Blay and Quinn!!

Lover Reborn (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #10)
 
 
10. Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life by Gretchen Rubin. (9-4) I read Gretchen's first book about 2 years ago called The Happiness Project. It was kinda life-changing at the time. Majorly thought-provoking. Loved her life examples and real-world writing. Although this particular book may not be as relateable to me as the other, I'm very much a fan of Gretchen and can't wait to read this.
Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

3.23.2012

My Thoughts: Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Laini Taylor)


Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Daughter of Smoke and Bone, #1) Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.

In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.

And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.

Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages—not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out.

When one of the strangers—beautiful, haunted Akiva—fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself? (Goodreads)


Cover: I like it because it actually has something to do with the story.

My Thoughts:
I don't have the words to give enough justice to the amazingness of this book. Beautiful does not begin to describe the incredible artistry that is contained in these pages. I fell in love with the world, and more importantly I fell in love with the characters. This is one of those books that is going to stay with me.
Instant favorite. Highly recommended. 

I am so sad that I have to wait until November for Days of Blood and Starlight.  Oh my gah.

Favorite quotes:
"Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic."

"It was what she had always wanted and thought she'd found: someone who was for her, as she was for him, whose blood and butterflies sang to hers and answered them, note for note."

Final Thought: Breathtaking, heartbreaking, magical. Wow.    5/5