Waiting on Wednesday: Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

 

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine

 What I'm waiting for...

 

GoodReads/ Amazon/ TBD

A breathtaking new novel by National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor

Strange the Dreamer is the story of:

the aftermath of a war between gods and men.
a mysterious city stripped of its name.
a mythic hero with blood on his hands.
a young librarian with a singular dream.
a girl every bit as perilous as she is imperiled.
alchemy and blood candy, nightmares and godspawn, moths and monsters, friendship and treachery, love and carnage.

Welcome to Weep.

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I'm really, really excited about this book! I have to admit I don't like the US cover this time. I love  the colors, but... I don't know, it looks a little weird to me. 
But THIS cover! I love it! And I can't wait to know more about this story, it sounds perfect!

What about you?

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Some Books Ago: Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor

If you noticed, every Tuesday I post about the new books I discover. So, I wanted to give a shout out to all those books published some years ago, that maybe some readers may have forgotten.

Three tales of supernatural love, each pivoting on a kiss that is no mere kiss, but an action with profound consequences for the kissers' souls:

It was published on October 1st 2009 by Arthur A. Levine Books

 

GoodReads/ Amazon/ TBD

Summary:

Goblin Fruit
In Victorian times, goblin men had only to offer young girls sumptuous fruits to tempt them to sell their souls. But what does it take to tempt today's savvy girls?

Spicy Little Curses
A demon and the ambassador to Hell tussle over the soul of a beautiful English girl in India. Matters become complicated when she falls in love and decides to test her curse.

Hatchling
Six days before Esme's fourteenth birthday, her left eye turns from brown to blue. She little suspects what the change heralds, but her small safe life begins to unravel at once. What does the beautiful, fanged man want with her, and how is her fate connected to a mysterious race of demons?

 

 

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My thoughts on: Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor

Dreams of Gods and Monsters
Series: Daughter of Smoke and Bone #3
Author: Laini Taylor
My rating: 5 stars
Pages: 613
GoodReads/ Amazon/ TBD
Summary:

By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz. 

Common enemy, common cause. 

When Jael's brutal seraph army trespasses into the human world, the unthinkable becomes essential, and Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat. 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.

And, perhaps, for themselves. Toward a new way of living, and maybe even love.

But there are bigger threats than Jael in the offing. A vicious queen is hunting Akiva, and, in the skies of Eretz ... something is happening. Massive stains are spreading like bruises from horizon to horizon; the great winged stormhunters are gathering as if summoned, ceaselessly circling, and a deep sense of wrong pervades the world. 

What power can bruise the sky? 

From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy. 

At the very barriers of space and time, what do gods and monsters dream of? And does anything else matter?

 

It took me one week to finish this book. One week and it still feels so little time, because I didn’t want to say goodbye to this awesome world, to these fantastic characters, to this achingly beautiful writing.
But I did.
I said goodbye.
And I’m grateful for all those pages in the world of Karou.
However, even though I loved this book to pieces, it wasn’t my favorite.
(For me, Days of Blood and Starlight is still the best).

My favorite part of Dreams of Gods and Monsters, (if I can say it like that) was: the characters.
Zuze and Mik were my favorites in the whole world. Liraz. Karou & Akiva. Kirin, Issa… I even loved the Stelians, they were such a mystery. Dark and magical.
I’ve heard some people complaining about the new characters; especially Eliza, but I find Eliza so good and well created. I think she was “needed” on the other side of the story.

Now, my least favorite part was the ending. I was pining for something bloodier, I was expecting something mind-blowing but in some way, after so many pages the "actual" ending felt a little rushed.
That doesn’t change my rating or how much I adored this book.
The romance, the action, the amazing writing, the unforgettable characters, the spectacular world-building, all those things made of Dreams of Gods and Monsters an extraordinary read. 
It was a great ending for this great series!

“Once upon a time, there was only darkness. And there were monsters vast as worlds who swam in it.” 

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My never-ending booknotes: Days of blood and starlight by Laini Taylor

 

My Never-ending Booknotes is a weekly meme created by my awesome friend April @ Books 4 Juliet  where we can share our favorites quotes or conversation from a book.

If you want to join, just go HERE and have fun.

Today my never-ending booknotes are taken from the book DAYS OF BLOOD AND STARLIGHT by Laini Taylor. 

To be honest, every quote of this book is magic. It's so beautiful! It is very hard to pick just two or three favorites notes. Anyway. I show you here the best quotes ever!

I hope you can read this book soon because it's UH-MAZING!

“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 a 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.” 

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"Let's see. You know how, at the end of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet wakes up in the crypt and Romeo's already dead? He thought she was dead so he killed himself right next to her?"...

"Well, imagine if she woke up and he was still alive, but..." She swallowed, waiting out a tremor in her voice. "But he had killed her whole family. And burned her city. And killed and enslaved her people.”

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