I've been slacking ...

I've gotten into one of those moods where sitting down to read lasts about 10 minutes and then I'm up and doing something else. I had started to read the sequel to "Daughter of Smoke and Bone", but it couldn't hold my interest. No fault of the book, just the way things go sometimes. I did do a reread of "The Selection" in anticipation of reading the second book in the series, "The Elite". Technically I will count it as a book read, but I won't be doing another review. I did enjoy it and it left me anxious to start the next installment. Here's hoping my reading bug is back and I'll get back on track so I can finish out the year on track.

On a side note, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!




Currently reading: "The Farm" by Emily McKay

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Currently reading: "Days of Blood and Starlight" by Laini Taylor

"Daughter of Smoke and Bone" by Laini Taylor

Started April 14, 2013 - Ended April 25, 2013
I honestly didn't get into this book until the last section. Not sure if it is because I was uber busy, or if it really didn't hold my attention. I finally finished 11 days after I started.

From Amazon: Around the world, black handprints 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 grown 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?


I wanted to love this book. I liked it. The ending did leave me wanting to find out what happened between Karou and Akiva, but I wasn't dying to start the next book. Which is unusual for me. I'm reading book 2 now, and it's also slow going. I think I'm just in a non-reading funk. I gave "Daughter of Smoke and Bone" a B-.






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Currently reading: "Daughter of Smoke and Bone" by Laini Taylor