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Review: Dreams of Gods & Monsters

Dreams of Gods & Monsters Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

4.5/5. Awesome conclusion to a magnificent trilogy. Though I do not think I enjoyed it as much as I could have.

This monster of a book took me a while to read. Whenever I read a book for too long I always get… how do I put it? Restless? Either way it makes me really want to hurry up and finish it. Which I’m sure a lot of you know, it is always a terrible idea to rush through a book! It always diminishes the reading experience, and could cause one to hate a book they would have otherwise loved. It wasn’t that much of an extreme case this time, but I still do feel like I robbed myself a little here. But it was not all my fault of course!

In the beginning of the end, Dreams of Gods and Monsters, I was not feeling it. I had just finished the high that was Days of Blood and Starlight, and was excited to see how it would all end. Buuttt I really didn’t like what was happening with the war and everything, it was all just reaalllyy unsettling to me. It gave me bad feelings in my stomach. This caused me to never actually want to pick up the book and continue reading. Every time I started reading it was only because I knew I had to read. I had to finish this book. Then as I came ever nearer to the end of my break, and the start of school, this feeling became stronger still. This of course also tied in with what I mentioned in the earlier paragraph. By the endish-middleish the story became more bearable so of course my dread on that subsided, but not page-wise.

Boy of boy this is a big book. Well, I know that 613 can be easily read, it isn’t a Dickens after all. But I don’t know. The pages and pages I still had to read once I got to the middle was just such a vast expanse of plot that seemed uncrossable. The middle of a book, the sweet 50% mark is usually a momentous occasion, but this time it was just a reminder that now I had to go through all thatagain. Man I’m making this book sound terrible.

It wasn’t terrible. It was quite good. A crap ton of shenanigans happened in those 613 pages, let me tell you. Could it have been condensed? I mean… I did feel annoyed by all the description and thinking that happened. You know, not stuff happening but still there were words on the page. But I don’t know if those should have been necessarily cut out altogether. I mean yeah they annoyed me and I skimmed/ outright skipped some of it, but it was all in the name of artistic writing I say so let it be.

Another factor that prevented me from enjoying this story as well as I could have would be that I am still very well stuck in the Lunar Chronicles zone. Man that series is awesome. You know when you read something so good, so engaging that you just love it so much, that when you try to read something else you just can’t? Well this was that, except I forced myself through to the end of another complete series! Well then. But this Daughter of Smoke and Bone series was also so good!! I’m honestly so mad at myself that I’m not appreciating it as much as I should be.

One last crucial note: That. Acknowledgments. It was amazing. I always make sure I read the acknowledgments in books. This was not exception. And it was amazing. It just left me with a good feeling inside, better than the actual end of the book. Read it! And all the acknowledgements in every book after it!


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

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