Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war.
This is not that world.
Art student and monster's apprentice Karou finally has the answers she has always sought. She knows who she is--and what she is. But with this knowledge comes another truth she would give anything to undo: She loved the enemy and he betrayed her, and a world suffered for it.
In this stunning sequel to the highly acclaimed Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Karou must decide how far she'll go to avenge her people. Filled with heartbreak and beauty, secrets and impossible choices, Days of Blood & Starlight finds Karou and Akiva on opposing sides as an age-old war stirs back to life.
While Karou and her allies build a monstrous army in a land of dust and starlight, Akiva wages a different sort of battle: a battle for redemption. For hope.
But can any hope be salvaged from the ashes of their broken dream?
I did not like this book at first. The end of [b:Daughter of Smoke & Bone|8490112|Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)|Laini Taylor|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1338613368s/8490112.jpg|13355552] was my least favorite part after being enthralled by the rest of it. Days of Blood & Starlight picks right back up there. Karou doesn't return to life among humans, and the narration spends quite a bit of time switching among various non-Karou characters, including some new Chimera, which annoyed me.
However, once I got far enough into it, I was dying to know more about everything. Laini Taylor keeps everything mysterious and unpredictable, and didn't see most of the plot twists ahead of time. Over and over, she would take the story one way, reveal the hint of something that made me go, "Huh, wait, what?" and then run in a totally unexpected direction.
So, it's very different from the trilogy's first book, but not in a bad way in the end. It also has the benefit of feeling important enough to escape the middle trilogy book curse of simply treading water between the beginning and the end.
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