Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor

So much so that it took away from the story progression. I didn't feel as though I were reading a book, I felt as though I were being lectured by the author, and I began to really notice it. The further into the book I got, the worse things became. I, the reader, knew that shit was hitting the fan elsewhere and I lamented over being stuck inside the head of a person whom I'd just met and didn't give a shit about.

The problem with this type of storytelling is that it drags.

In short, it's filled with actual frigging scenes.īut then everything goes horribly wrong for our heroes and heroines, as it does, and we find ourselves back on earth, following the lives of new characters and trapped in chapters made up of huge blocks of narrative. It's filled with dialog, action, suspense, etc. They're about to attempt the impossible, try to bring peace to their world. The characters we've come to love have formed a shaky alliance with those they've called enemies for all their lives (<- plural, get it? BECAUSE RESURECTION, HAHAHAHA). If this had progressed like it opened, I would have fangirled over it as hard as I did for the first two installments. In my review for Days of Blood and Starlight I basically said that Laini Taylor could re-write the phone book and I'd give it ALL the stars. The New York Times bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy comes to a stunning conclusion as-from the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond-humans, chimaera, and seraphim strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy. And, perhaps, for themselves.īut with even bigger threats on the horizon, are Karou and Akiva strong enough to stand among the gods and monsters? It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people. When the brutal angel emperor brings his army to the human world, Karou and Akiva are finally reunited-not in love, but in a tentative alliance against their common enemy. By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera's rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. Two worlds are poised on the brink of a vicious war.

Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor