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Review: Dreams of Gods and Monsters

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Title/Author: Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor
Publication Date/Publisher: April 8, 2014/Little, Brown & Company
Series: Daughter of Smoke and Bone #3
Source and Format: Purchased
Rating: 5 stars
From Goodreads:
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.

Common enemy, common cause.

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.

And, perhaps, for themselves. Toward a new way of living, and maybe even love.

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.

What power can bruise the sky?

From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.

At the very barriers of space and time, what do gods and monsters dream of? And does anything else matter?

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I can hardly think of a series with a more satisfying ending. I went through the gamut of feelings: I laughed gleefully, I sobbed uncontrollably, I was confused, I was delighted. In my mind, there are two events missing from Dreams of Gods and Monsters – though I’m sure one of them will come about in the form of a novella. The other is a wish not even a bruxis could handle, and wouldn’t have even made sense, but I wanted it nonetheless.

Dreams of Gods and Monsters takes the series to a completely unexpected place. I would never have guessed this was the endpoint during either of the first two books. I am completely blown away by the scale of this particular part of the story, so much so that the 613 pages that make it up seems like not enough. This could also be due to the face that I’m not ready for this series to be over – no matter how many novellas are yet to come.

I’m 100% happy with my choice to reread the series and have a giant binge week – well, binge 3 days, thanks to the long weekend. I wouldn’t say it’s necessary, but why WOULDN’T you want to spend that much extra time with Laini Taylor’s gorgeous writing? I kept a pad of post-its with me this time around and left markers next to passages I love (I can’t bring myself to write in books) and it’s so satisfying to see them all. Plus, in the re-read, my opinions of the books changed. I enjoyed them even more this time around with all the extra information.


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