Ever since I finished Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke & Bone, I have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of the sequel, Days of Blood &
Starlight, to the point where now, when it is coming out TODAY, I
almost can’t believe that it is actually happening. I’m so excited to read it
that I don’t even want to read a summary; I just want to go into it completely
fresh. So in lieu of a summary here, I will present a brief story.
This year I went to NYC Comic Con. In addition to all the
comics publishers, artists, writers, collectors, figurine-sellers, etc.,
several book publishers had tables set up. And on one, I spied, next to some
copies of Daughter of Smoke & Bone,
a pile of thin volumes with similar looking but slightly more fiery cover art.
“Is that…the sequel?” I gasped.
“It’s a free preview of Days
of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor,” the woman behind the table said.
“Go ahead; take one.”
My hand crept out, but I stopped it. No, I told myself. And I turned around and walked away from
temptation. Because I knew that if I took one of those free previews, I would
only be hurting myself. I would reach the end of it, completely enthralled, and
then would pass the next few weeks in torture, waiting for the book to come out
so I could read the rest. And then when the book finally did come out, I would
have already read the first few chapters and there would be that much less of
the book still to read before I got to the end.
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