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Review: Days of Blood & Starlight

Days of Blood & Starlight Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

OH MY GOSH THIS WAS SO INCREDIBLY WAY BETTER THAN DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE!!!!! FIVE OUT OF FIVE FOR DAYS (of blood and starlight if ya nam sayin)!!!

So much happened. All the things happened. The thing you thought wasn't going to happen? Yeah it happens. Oh, no not THAT thing, the other one. Okay then well I guess everything BUT that one thing happens, you know, to be political correct and all. It's probably gonna happen in the last book though, let's be real.

As with the first book in this trilogy, Days of Blood and Starlight ALSO reminded me of another series I've read! Welcome to another exciting installment of: WHICH WAS PUBLISHED FIRST!?

This review we have the Daughter of Smoke and Bone series By Laini Taylor vs. The Demonblood series by Penelope King! The Demonblood series is about a girl who is human by day and demon by night. This is an extreme oversimplification of the plot for space-saving sake. It's a great series, though Penelope is slower than I'd prefer at pumping out new installments. The first thing that really struck me as being similar is that in both of these books the angels and demons are at war with each other. But of course that's how it is in every book so that one isn't so bad. Then of course is the really strong parallel that is the fact that in both stories, our protagonist is a demon in a very forbidden love with a very overpowered angel. They just both happened to fall in love with the ONE angel that is the most special snowflake in all of Special Snowflake Topia. Okay I'm exaggerating but my point stands. Also it's been years since I've read an installment in the Demonblood series so I could be talking out of my ass just a bit here but let's pretend I'm not. Ass-talking or not, the first part of my last point was for sure true, and I just couldn't help thinking about it during my reading of this book, and the first book as well.

Just one last point: in the Demonblood series there's a friggen character named Bones. BONES!!!!! Daughter of Smoke and BONES!?!?!?!!? COINCIDENCE!?!?!? Take it as you will. So now... time for the verdict. Okay now this is odd because when I checked goodreads while writing this review it said that Daughter of Smoke and Bone was published June 5th 2012, which doesn't make sense because when I wrote my review for that book it said the publish date was September 27th 2011. I'm inclined to believe the latter date though, because inside my book it says it was published 2011. EITHER WAY, whichever date is correct does not matter because the first book in the Demonblood series, A Demon Made Me Do It, was published May 27th 2011. So it looks like PENELOPE KING is the winner of this round!

Now that that tomfoolery is over, let's talk about something that annoyed me. Random. Scenes. With random new characters I do not care about in the slightest. Like come on, screw off and get back to the good stuff. (view spoiler)

So yeah I don't know what else to say. Every Time I picked it up, I absolutely did NOT want to put this baby back down. But you know, sleep. It's gotta happen sometime. But for real, there were a couple twists that just seriously screwed me up. They got me all like waving my book around like a maniac cause I'm all like, "YO WTF NO WAT NO WAY OMG YOOOOOO." Sick shit yo.

Check out my reading notes under this review for some extra... uh NOTES, and have a great day folks!


All of my Daughter of Smoke and Bone Reviews:
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3

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