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oogabooga7's review against another edition
5.0
Loved this series. So much fun and very beautiful imagery. The last book was a bit of a disappointment.
uutopicaa's review against another edition
5.0
He leído muchísimos libros.. y muchísimas sagas.
Algunas son muy buenas, otras muy malas.
Algunas son un gran cliché, siempre lo mismo (chica medio nerd que se enamora del tipo lindo que resulta siendo algo paranormal).
Algunas sagas son más originales que otras. Algunas crean distopias, otras no.
PERO NUNCA he leído algo como esto.
Esta es, para mí, la mejor saga contemporanea. No solo ha creado una distopía MUY original, sino que también la ha entrelazado con el mundo que conocemos. Ha logrado mezclar lo común (con personakes totalmente humanos) con lo "sobrenatural", que en este caso no es simplemente un monstruo o un vampiro, sino los habitantes de otro plano, de otra existencia.
Laini Taylor creó un mundo con sus propias reglas, que en muchas cosas coincide con el nuestro, pero que en muchas otras difiere.
Cada personaje en esta saga es especial. No hay un solo personaje que esté ahí por casualidad. Todos, hasta el que parece ser el más insignificante, tiene su personalidad, su forma de ser, su historia y su razón de existir en la novela.
Es increible.
El primer libro los presenta una situación cotidiana efímera y un montón de misterios. TANTOS que le toma a la autora tres libros para poder terminar de develarlos. Y no deja ni un solo cabo suelto.
Cada pregunta que me surgió durante la lectura, incluso las más ridículas y extravagantes, encontraron su respuesta tarde o temprano.
No me voy a poner a contar de qué se trata la saga, para eso hay resúmenes y otras reseñas. Lo que yo quiero destacar es la calidad del texto y de su traducción. Cada palabra, cada punto y cada coma están ahí por algo. Todo es importante, todo tiene un propósito.
Además, es una saga cruda. Muestra lo bueno y lo malo. La paz y la guerra. El amor y el odio. Todo eso tal y como es. No se guarda nada, no censura. Personajes con historias que te hacen llorar, y personajes con vidas tan simples que te hacen reir.
No hay una forma correcta para describir la saga.
LÉANLA. Es lo único que puedo decirles.
Algunas son muy buenas, otras muy malas.
Algunas son un gran cliché, siempre lo mismo (chica medio nerd que se enamora del tipo lindo que resulta siendo algo paranormal).
Algunas sagas son más originales que otras. Algunas crean distopias, otras no.
PERO NUNCA he leído algo como esto.
Esta es, para mí, la mejor saga contemporanea. No solo ha creado una distopía MUY original, sino que también la ha entrelazado con el mundo que conocemos. Ha logrado mezclar lo común (con personakes totalmente humanos) con lo "sobrenatural", que en este caso no es simplemente un monstruo o un vampiro, sino los habitantes de otro plano, de otra existencia.
Laini Taylor creó un mundo con sus propias reglas, que en muchas cosas coincide con el nuestro, pero que en muchas otras difiere.
Cada personaje en esta saga es especial. No hay un solo personaje que esté ahí por casualidad. Todos, hasta el que parece ser el más insignificante, tiene su personalidad, su forma de ser, su historia y su razón de existir en la novela.
Es increible.
El primer libro los presenta una situación cotidiana efímera y un montón de misterios. TANTOS que le toma a la autora tres libros para poder terminar de develarlos. Y no deja ni un solo cabo suelto.
Cada pregunta que me surgió durante la lectura, incluso las más ridículas y extravagantes, encontraron su respuesta tarde o temprano.
No me voy a poner a contar de qué se trata la saga, para eso hay resúmenes y otras reseñas. Lo que yo quiero destacar es la calidad del texto y de su traducción. Cada palabra, cada punto y cada coma están ahí por algo. Todo es importante, todo tiene un propósito.
Además, es una saga cruda. Muestra lo bueno y lo malo. La paz y la guerra. El amor y el odio. Todo eso tal y como es. No se guarda nada, no censura. Personajes con historias que te hacen llorar, y personajes con vidas tan simples que te hacen reir.
No hay una forma correcta para describir la saga.
LÉANLA. Es lo único que puedo decirles.
rychelereads's review against another edition
3.0
I fell in love, a deep, deep, irrevocably, obsessive love with the first book. [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]
See my review of that book here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1445340138?book_show_action=false
But I was a bit disappointed and just overall glum because of the outlook and tone of the second book, and then I was driven back into the story with the first half of the third, and then I was put out by the ending.
I got that it was a romance, but I fell in love with the book because it seemed to me at first at least the the story itself, the mythologies, the mysteries, the action, and the discussion of morality, mortality, and war was the core of the book. So, when pretty words, beautiful words but just that became the bulk of the content, I sort of lost contact with the overall fantastical nature of the story. It doesn't help a reader of a fantasy book get more into the whimsy of everything if the words themselves are swirling in almost meaningless or rather less meaningful commotion about your brain. I found that I was spending more time re-reading the words, and then skimming over others, passage after passage, in order to first understand and then after just get to the meat of it all.
The second book [b:Days of Blood & Starlight|12812550|Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2)|Laini Taylor|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1337964452s/12812550.jpg|17961723] was gloomy, angsty, and really dramatic. I fell in love with new characters, and developed a strong loathing for the villains, but I also kind of felt out of sorts with Karou, the main heroine, and that threw me off. I gave the series the benefit of the doubt, considering that the series itself deals with some pretty dire, and increasingly tumultuous events and emotions. So, I got it. Karou is down, Akiva is down, so the reader, seeing things through both her and his points of view also feels down. But there is literally no reprieve from this down-ness. Except Zuzana, for whom there was not enough of her sassy, snarky, awesomeness, and for whom I had a large literary character craving for, especially after all that happened in the book. I won't say more to spoil it except that I also loved Ziri, and his whole role in the story just made the book that much more in the gutter. In the series, this was sort of that emo-stage, and I understood why it may have had to be that way, but dang, I was glad I didn't have to wait long after that to pick up the third and final installment.
Then comes the third book: [b:Dreams of Gods & Monsters|13618440|Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #3)|Laini Taylor|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1378892134s/13618440.jpg|19221595];
I just, I had a hard time with it. If it weren't for the fact that I also had the audiobook to listen to, I'm not sure I could have actually sat down, set aside time, and physically read it. It picked up the plot again, but even slower this time, and oddly, though it was the final book in a trilogy, it introduced a whole crater full of new characters. Needless to say, it was not enough time to develop all of these characters fully or to a satisfying degree. I mean, Queen Scarab, Nightingale, Carnassial, Haxaya, Eliza, and even Esther to name a few were just like ALRIGHT WERE HERE BUT THERE WAS NO PREAMBLE AND THATS THAT AND OUR STORY JUST ENDS NOW, BAM.
Reading it you kind of got snippets here and there of the multitude of other characters, but it was just, a bit too much for the end of series. Already you go into it with a bunch of questions that the story was building up at a rather consistent pace, and then in the final installment you have whole chapters devoted to introducing and slowly developing the characters and stories of all these new people! I didn't mind Eliza, not at all, and I saw how she had a role in tying up the loose ends (in like the second to last chapter), but really, some of it seemed out of place. I ended up leaving the series with more questions than answers, and no real desire for extra books or continuations to get them. Sadly, this last book sort of killed it for me.
I'm still in love with the first book, and the second I don't mind, but the third, really just had way too much going on, and it didn't adequately sum everything up in the end. I really had high hopes for the final installment, especially after the spectacular show that was the Daughter of Smoke and Bone (#1) and the emotional plummet that was Days of Blood and Starlight (#2), but Dreams of Gods and Monsters (#3) was just disappointing.
The writing is still lovely. Still lots of tattoo ideas/ t-shirt quote awesomeness, and I ship Ziri and anyone because he deserves it! But lovely words and too much fluff seemed to overwhelm the spectacle expected to end a trilogy about a multi-dimensional angels vs. demons war.
See my review of that book here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1445340138?book_show_action=false
But I was a bit disappointed and just overall glum because of the outlook and tone of the second book, and then I was driven back into the story with the first half of the third, and then I was put out by the ending.
I got that it was a romance, but I fell in love with the book because it seemed to me at first at least the the story itself, the mythologies, the mysteries, the action, and the discussion of morality, mortality, and war was the core of the book. So, when pretty words, beautiful words but just that became the bulk of the content, I sort of lost contact with the overall fantastical nature of the story. It doesn't help a reader of a fantasy book get more into the whimsy of everything if the words themselves are swirling in almost meaningless or rather less meaningful commotion about your brain. I found that I was spending more time re-reading the words, and then skimming over others, passage after passage, in order to first understand and then after just get to the meat of it all.
The second book [b:Days of Blood & Starlight|12812550|Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2)|Laini Taylor|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1337964452s/12812550.jpg|17961723] was gloomy, angsty, and really dramatic. I fell in love with new characters, and developed a strong loathing for the villains, but I also kind of felt out of sorts with Karou, the main heroine, and that threw me off. I gave the series the benefit of the doubt, considering that the series itself deals with some pretty dire, and increasingly tumultuous events and emotions. So, I got it. Karou is down, Akiva is down, so the reader, seeing things through both her and his points of view also feels down. But there is literally no reprieve from this down-ness. Except Zuzana, for whom there was not enough of her sassy, snarky, awesomeness, and for whom I had a large literary character craving for, especially after all that happened in the book. I won't say more to spoil it except that I also loved Ziri, and his whole role in the story just made the book that much more in the gutter. In the series, this was sort of that emo-stage, and I understood why it may have had to be that way, but dang, I was glad I didn't have to wait long after that to pick up the third and final installment.
Then comes the third book: [b:Dreams of Gods & Monsters|13618440|Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #3)|Laini Taylor|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1378892134s/13618440.jpg|19221595];
I just, I had a hard time with it. If it weren't for the fact that I also had the audiobook to listen to, I'm not sure I could have actually sat down, set aside time, and physically read it. It picked up the plot again, but even slower this time, and oddly, though it was the final book in a trilogy, it introduced a whole crater full of new characters. Needless to say, it was not enough time to develop all of these characters fully or to a satisfying degree. I mean, Queen Scarab, Nightingale, Carnassial, Haxaya, Eliza, and even Esther to name a few were just like ALRIGHT WERE HERE BUT THERE WAS NO PREAMBLE AND THATS THAT AND OUR STORY JUST ENDS NOW, BAM.
Reading it you kind of got snippets here and there of the multitude of other characters, but it was just, a bit too much for the end of series. Already you go into it with a bunch of questions that the story was building up at a rather consistent pace, and then in the final installment you have whole chapters devoted to introducing and slowly developing the characters and stories of all these new people! I didn't mind Eliza, not at all, and I saw how she had a role in tying up the loose ends (in like the second to last chapter), but really, some of it seemed out of place. I ended up leaving the series with more questions than answers, and no real desire for extra books or continuations to get them. Sadly, this last book sort of killed it for me.
I'm still in love with the first book, and the second I don't mind, but the third, really just had way too much going on, and it didn't adequately sum everything up in the end. I really had high hopes for the final installment, especially after the spectacular show that was the Daughter of Smoke and Bone (#1) and the emotional plummet that was Days of Blood and Starlight (#2), but Dreams of Gods and Monsters (#3) was just disappointing.
The writing is still lovely. Still lots of tattoo ideas/ t-shirt quote awesomeness, and I ship Ziri and anyone because he deserves it! But lovely words and too much fluff seemed to overwhelm the spectacle expected to end a trilogy about a multi-dimensional angels vs. demons war.
alexandrabree's review against another edition
4.0
amazing series. I loved the world, the characters, the plot, the backstories. It started strong and ended well.
sophreads1998's review against another edition
1.0
I read the first book after reading Strange the Dreamer which was amazing this was just to YA romance for me everyone is amazingly perfect with no physical flaws and the book just sort of throws them into love even when they're supposed to be enemies theres no complexity to their feelings I couldn't finish the first book just from cringing I love Laini and her later works are so much better than this Stangre the Dreamer is my favourite book but I dont reccomend this series to anymore over the age of 17
bookybrookey's review against another edition
5.0
This trilogy is magical... well it has magic in it but it does magical things to you when you read it. Just like Harry Potter, you feel special and like you're apart of another world that nobody else knows about. You feel the emotions of the characters and every chapter brings another surprise or adventure. I usually hate Fantasy kind of books but these were AMAZING! Laini Taylor is such an amazing writer, who has created such a new, refreshing and unique storyline that is addicting (I was suppose to be studying for Yr 11 exams but couldn't help myself from reading it). One of the greatest things about the series is that each book offers something new (obviously), but I mean that with Divergent or THG they go through stages of Good - first book, Depressing - second book, Unsatisfying - third book, but this series was just so different, each book was equally as good and entertaining. I wish I could buy copies of the series and hand them out on the streets like they were the bible. PERFECCCTTTTTT
boliak_1014's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
2.75
sab95's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
kranna's review against another edition
5.0
This book said is wonderful it's got science fiction it's got a little bit of romance everything you want
marianaaa's review against another edition
3.5
pretty cool but the main characters were so horny for each other in the last book it was insane and there was a literal war how did nobody important die…(besides brimstone). still pretty good tho