“Nothing made you feel so useless as another person’s
grief.” Truth.
9.13 Days of Blood and Starlight
This is the second in the Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
and it shows that war truly is good for absolutely noting. It also shows that the second book in a
trilogy can be totally engaging and advance a plot in a totally meaningful way.
In the first book the war between the Chimera and the
Seraphim is set up. We see the
history and build up and understand that it will be an all or nothing war – one
side will cease to exist. In Days,
we see it actually happen. And we
see it keep happening because the killing never stops, even if you destroy one
side another side appears. This is
a harsh book and I kind of loved it for that. It doesn’t gloss over the hard stuff, or the grey area. There are characters that we care for
on both sides; we are shown that each side is justified and awful at the same
time.
Karou is still torn between sides no longer because of love
but because of her constant questioning about what it right, and, because she
is from the human world, she knows how much worse it could be. They could have guns. And as this story ends and we wait for
the next to be written, both warring leaders now know what Karou knows and they
are heading for the human world where we make gods of some and monsters of
others, and arm them both in unimaginable ways.
I hate guns. So much.
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