The story itself is a love story first and an epic fantasy war after, and usually I would cry foul. She paints the whole story with a gothic and romantic afterglow, a product of her witty yet lyrical style that captures the worlds in her book in their pure other-worldly beauty while at the same time, keeping it approachable enough for us to know we see what we see through Karou’s eyes. I have always been a fantasy lover, but Taylor had given me a basic supernatural romance to love. My (insert cool book geek word for ‘spidey sense’ here) was piqued and I finally grabbed me a copy of the book to see what this was all about. My interest in the writing routines of authors, I lapped up the article, helpfully annotated with Instagrams of her notebook. So Taylor had written this post over at about her ‘writing notebook’, the book in which she first discovered the seeds of what would grow to become her bestselling fantasy series. Frankly, after the Twilight bomb, I have tried my best to steer clear of ‘Young Adult Fantasy,’ which has become another term for ‘Sappy Supernatural Hokum.’ĭespite all the hype that surrounded Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone, I studiously avoided it, kept my eyes lowered, even though the blue and grey masked girl on the cover was beckoning.
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