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

Laini Taylor

Start date: December 1, 2012

Finish date: December 1, 2012

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Jan 18, 2013 Becky rated it liked it

Shelves: ya, other-worlds, angels-and-demons

This book took me forever to finish. It wasn't unputdownable or engrossing, but it was good. It was as dark and violent a follow up to DoSaB as there could have been, and a really painful story of a war with no purpose. Maybe that's why it was hard for me to get through. Karou, mad at Akiva, does what she was mad at him for doing and falls into continuing a war whose only goal is death. Akiva is sad and wants to take it all back. Other characters are introduced and killed off... it is bloody and ...more

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Jan 11, 2012 Kristy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: part-of-a-series, 14-and-up

Need book 3 now!

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Jun 21, 2012 Jess rated it really liked it

Shelves: young-adult, fantasy

Darker than Daughter of Smoke & Bone, this answers a lot of questions from the first book. Not necessarily in terms of plot or things left hanging (although it does that, too), but in terms of how believable it is that Karou and Akiva have the relationship they do. Things are tested here, and that gives me faith in Laini Taylor to finish off the series in a solid way. The first book was much more fun, with that heady romance and the Prague setting and all the mysteries of the doorways and Karou' ...more

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Jul 10, 2014 Shelley rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, favorites, listened

This is a great series for fantasy-lovers, with enough romance to entice teen girls, but not enough to turn off teen boys.

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Dec 12, 2012 Danielle rated it liked it

Shelves: ya, romance, fantasy

3.5. Needed some work on pacing and perhaps several chapters trimmed, but overall a very satisfying sequel to Daughter of Smoke and Bone.

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Aug 17, 2012 Jennifer rated it really liked it

Shelves: young-adult-teen, on-my-ipad, netgalley

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Aug 25, 2012 Tamsyn rated it it was amazing

Shelves: great-audio, youngadult, best-of-the-year, wonderful-fantasy

This book (and the audio version) lived up to the promise of the first, following the diverging paths of Karue (chimera) and Akiva (seraph). Laini Taylor -- what gorgeous writing, what amazing imagination, such fully-fleshed worlds she creates! Now my hope is that she can sustain these levels for the final book of the trilogy.
Wow.

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