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Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2)
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3 1/2 stars
You know that feeling? When you're unsure how to feel about a sequel because in most ways, it feels like the correct evolution of the story, it characters and its atmosphere, but at the same time... you can't help but want it to be different?
That's what I struggled with for the most part of this book. I found myself really missing the whimsical, melodramatic, light urban fantasy setting of the first installment, while simultaneously feeling very aware that this was an extremely well executed version of the story that it needed to be. So in this case, the rating is very much reflective of my personal enjoyment of what I got, and barely if at all a response to technical flaws. I was just very sad that some of my favourite aspects of book 1 were sort of completely abandoned now lol.
You know that feeling? When you're unsure how to feel about a sequel because in most ways, it feels like the correct evolution of the story, it characters and its atmosphere, but at the same time... you can't help but want it to be different?
That's what I struggled with for the most part of this book. I found myself really missing the whimsical, melodramatic, light urban fantasy setting of the first installment, while simultaneously feeling very aware that this was an extremely well executed version of the story that it needed to be. So in this case, the rating is very much reflective of my personal enjoyment of what I got, and barely if at all a response to technical flaws. I was just very sad that some of my favourite aspects of book 1 were sort of completely abandoned now lol.
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Reading Progress
September 21, 2023
– Shelved as:
to-read
September 21, 2023
– Shelved
September 21, 2023
– Shelved as:
fall-of-fantasy
July 2, 2024
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Started Reading
July 5, 2024
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38.1%
"Okay, so as expected, this is really well-written, but I have to say I find the evolution of the story into this high-fantasy war epic a little tiring; I miss the mystical urban fantasy of the first book."
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200
July 8, 2024
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74.67%
""All children are innocent. All children are sacred."
I have to say, reading this during an ongoing genocide has been... something else."
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392
I have to say, reading this during an ongoing genocide has been... something else."
July 9, 2024
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92.19%
"This book is so fucking bleak, it's hard to handle. Is this what YA was like in 2013??"
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484
July 9, 2024
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Finished Reading