Ten comes in to talk to Karou and Karou aggravates the wolf, so she threatens the resurrectionist with killing off Zuzana and Mik. characters we're introduced to have such little screen time that it's tough to feel anything much for them beyond fleeting thoughts.

Karou thinks the Revenants she is creating are being sent to Hintermost to protect innocent fleeing chimaera from the angels, but really they are being sent on counterattack missions to kill innocent seraphim. They are not exultant, and they no longer feel themselves to be the instruments of some great intention. The writing in this is just so top-notch, and the narrator brings these characters to life like you cannot believe. However, because it is based in modern times, is extremely well written and the characters are very well defined, including the non human ones, I found it most absorbing. My latest is STRANGE THE DREAMER, about a young librarian, a mythic lost city, and the half-human children of murdered gods.And then Zuzana (Karou's best friend) and Mik (Zuzana's boyfriend) show up at the creepy monster house to visit Karou. The aftermath of the war is continuing with seraphim killing innocent chimaera and the Revenants responding by cutting smiles into dead seraphim faces.

I enjoyed getting to know more about the latter two, especially, as they were very much bit-part roles in the first book. The supernatural events that occurred on the Charles Bridge have caught the attention of the media worldwide. Unfortunately, they didn’t have a thurible to save his soul and it’s already gone, so there is nothing Karou can do.Like the last book, this is not for a kid – it’s fairly violent and there’s some adult-ish stuff going on, what with Akiva’s father having forty-trillion concubines and Karou working with a violent, womanizing wolf (literally. Even though the my ratings for both books up to now ended up being 4-stars, this one was a solid 4+ where as the first one was only a rounded up 3. The ending is absolutely incredible - with a twist that completely catches you by surprise, leaving you dying to find out what happens next.

Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot, like Akiva, all had motivations for their mass murdering, but they were not romantic motivations. there was so much horrifying action, i think i was probably praying for a kiss or two to relieve it. The teaser for Days of Blood and Starlight says, “ Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war.Meanwhile, Zuzana grows increasingly worried at her friend's absence, sending e-mails to her that end up unreplied. I absolutely have to know where this series is going, what’s going to happen to them and whether I’m just as naive and foolish as Akiva and Karou for hoping and thinking that they will eventually have some form of happy relationship at the end of this series. God, if they only knew what they were getting into and thank God at that time Thiago needed Karou or they would have been supper! Laini Taylor unflinchingly minimized the wonder and cuteness and romance and instead focused on creating a rich landscape devastated by war, and characters wounded and scarred by it, and yet caught in the relentless cycle of violence which breeds more of the same.

The big theme of this book, the one that kept resonating with me, was the futility of violence and the longing for compassion and mercy and peace. She wakes up, startled, and continues stringing together some teeth, bones, and iron filings reserved for the body of a soldier named Amzallag. She lost everything she held dear and permanent in her life, and is barely a shell of her old self, consumed by regret and shame and guilt which, honestly, she really does not deserve (and the frequently annoying in its persistent cheerfullness presence of Zuzana is a painful reminder of how different Karou's life has become). which is something of a cop-out, i understand, but if you read the first one, you are probably going to be compelled to read the second one.But I won't go into that without giving away some major spoilers that you need to read for yourself. This book, though, was a whole book full of manic pixie dream girls dabbling in genocide and then gazing at each other.