Title:
Dreams of gods and monsters
(Daughter of smoke and bone #3)
Dreams of gods and monsters
(Daughter of smoke and bone #3)
Author:
Laini Taylor
★★★☆☆
3 out of 5 stars
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The first two books of the Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy are simply stunning. Such a beautifully written universe full of mystical creatures, almost perfection. Then we have this book, which follows the same well-developed main characters that we have been following since the first two installments, but it fell short.
Yeah, you read me.
So many new things were added in, that Karou becomes featureless in several plot points, not to mention those excessive plot threads were conveniently fixed. It was exhausting, not to say boring. I thought this book was gonna be about war but we've got more pairings than battles and that just made it all too pink when I needed red.
Ugh! it was so disappointing, several times I found myself wanting to skip chapters (far too many times), I felt the author was just dragging me through a "feelings" field, paragraphs and paragraphs full of descriptions of all the characters feelings -not just Karou's or Akiva's, but everyone's- where the word "hope" was overused. All the action and blood I was expecting was replaced with my favorite characters whining all the time. Boring.
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