Once Upon A Time In The Land of Eretz....

Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor

My rating:

I'd like to say this book was even better than the first but I can't. Daughter of Smoke and Bone was amazing btw. Days of Blood and Starlight was an unhappy and grim experience. Eretz is frought with danger and..... was a war zone.
I don't think Karou was happy even though she mentions to Zuzanna in a letter that she was *shrugs. It was a lie. She was alone and living in fear of the monster Thiago.
I felt she had abandoned all hope of her's and Akiva's dream of a better way to live.
I think Karou was mainly atoning for her sins.
She felt responsible for the killing of her family and now she had to bring them back.
She took on the role of resurrectionist. I wasn't happy about it because I thought she could've had a better life in the human world.
Brimstone had left her an inheritance even, and she had mad art skills and friends back in Prague whom she left behind.
I guess I understood why she felt she had to bring back her family but the dead soldiers? ugly as they are, did Thiago have to threaten her to do it? No? Was she crazy!?? It's like she was choosing war over a promising future in human society.
In some ways I wish she never found out who she really was.
Being Madrigal of Kirin was her past but we don't live in the past ! We live in the present and she was now Karou! Karou means Hope.

Her problem was her guilt and now she was angry, dark and blind too UGH! All she was doing was raising an army of creatures! I didn't like it as much as Prague. Sorry Laini. Don't get me wrong I love desert sand and couscous and and the Kasbah, but in what way is the real world like Eretz? Those creatures don't belong in the human world obviously. If the world knew these creatures existed they would shoot them first. We know the land of Eretz has no such high caliber weapons and thank the gods for that! By the end Akiva had yet to seal the portals between worlds so that the monsters won't get our weapons. Karou has to decide which world she wants to live in. She chooses to stay in Eretz *sigh UGH! I am very disappointed about that  cuz she's not the creature she once was. She's human now and belongs in my world.

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I Love This Book!

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Genre: Young Adult/Fantasy

Around the world, black hand prints 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 grows 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?

 My rating:

One of the best books I've ever read! I am so dying to read the next book I can hardly contain myself. I miss Karou and Akiva, Zuzanna and Izîl already! They are my favorite characters.

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page 256 At this point Akiva knows who Karou is but he couldn't convey what he knew about her because if his step-brother and sister found out they wouldn't understand . They were on the bridge. Onlookers and bypassers stood gawking at the angel spectacle, Karou and Akiva.

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Akiva: When he saw the chimaera girl again, he would be able to tell her that he had not used the life she had given him to kill any more of her kindred.

 Akiva: "Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world. No matter what happens " "I need you to remember that I love you."

 She is Madrigal Kirin, who dared imagine a new way of living.

Karou: It was what she had always wanted and thought that 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.

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