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4 stars.
What an ending to the second book.
I loved this book, not as much as the first, but this was still an amazing installment. Laini Taylor writes so beautifully that I get sucked into the world she creates.
The story was a little slow going for the first 300 pages but then it starts to pick up and it's hard to put the book down.
While I don't blame Karou for feeling how she does about Akiva, it still hurts seeing them so far apart. DoBaS just tore at my heart and when I felt it starting to ...more
What an ending to the second book.
I loved this book, not as much as the first, but this was still an amazing installment. Laini Taylor writes so beautifully that I get sucked into the world she creates.
The story was a little slow going for the first 300 pages but then it starts to pick up and it's hard to put the book down.
While I don't blame Karou for feeling how she does about Akiva, it still hurts seeing them so far apart. DoBaS just tore at my heart and when I felt it starting to ...more
A great book 2 for the series. As with most second books its a bit more mellow of a read, but Taylor does a great job of developing characters (especially her super awesome secondary characters)and setting up for book 3. Which, by the way, I'm super excited to come out. I won't bother to write a synopsis since thousands of other people will do that for me...so I'll just list my cheers and jeers.
Cheers!
1. Great characters. Even secondary characters are awesome. Hooray for more Zusana! Not to men ...more
Cheers!
1. Great characters. Even secondary characters are awesome. Hooray for more Zusana! Not to men ...more
So impressed with the second book - I liked it even better than the first. Too often a second book in a trilogy reads more like a filler leading up to the third, but this stood strong in its own right. I enjoy Koura as a heroine. She doesn't mope. She doesn't collapse in a heap when her love story goes wrong (as so often happens in the second book - one stereotype this book does hold to). Instead she pulls herself together and builds a kick ass army. She doesn't need rescuing. She keeps a level
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I had heard that this second in the series was not as good as the first, and I was prepared to suffer through it in order to get to the third one. I needn't have worried. While I consider it deserving of 4.5 stars rather than 5, it's still a riveting story, with complicated characters facing real dilemmas in a fascinating setting. Yes, there's a lot of killing, but we're witnessing a battle to the death for two opposing civilizations, so it seems to me a necessary part of the story rather than s
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Good, but not as good as book 1. The story dragged on in places and I'm not a fan of the violent war scenes. Still love Karou, Akiva, zuzana, isa, so loved the parts where they were involved. Looking forward to book 3!
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I think I liked this one even more than the first one, which almost never happens. I really loved the last like 30 pages and what all they did!
Apr 28, 2012
Sarah Dizon
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it was amazing
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