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The Blurb On The Back:
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a new way of living – one without massacres and torn throats and bonfires of the fallen, without revenants or bastard armies or children ripped from their mothers’ arms to take their turn in the killing and dying. Once, the lovers lay entwined in the moon’s secret temple and dreamed of a world that was like a jewel-box without a jewel – a paradise waiting for them to find it and fill it with their happiness.
This was not that world.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
The second in Laini Taylor’s SMOKE AND BONE TRILOGY is another beautifully written novel with incredible imagery and displaying a stunning imagination. However, Karou and Akiva’s denseness about obvious things really irritated me and felt like padding and as with the first book, there isn’t a huge amount of plot here. The quality of the writing meant that this wasn’t obvious until I finished it and while it did disappoint me, I will read the final book.
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a new way of living – one without massacres and torn throats and bonfires of the fallen, without revenants or bastard armies or children ripped from their mothers’ arms to take their turn in the killing and dying. Once, the lovers lay entwined in the moon’s secret temple and dreamed of a world that was like a jewel-box without a jewel – a paradise waiting for them to find it and fill it with their happiness.
This was not that world.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
The second in Laini Taylor’s SMOKE AND BONE TRILOGY is another beautifully written novel with incredible imagery and displaying a stunning imagination. However, Karou and Akiva’s denseness about obvious things really irritated me and felt like padding and as with the first book, there isn’t a huge amount of plot here. The quality of the writing meant that this wasn’t obvious until I finished it and while it did disappoint me, I will read the final book.
