Lips Touch: Three Times
Three tales of supernatural love, each pivoting on a kiss that is no mere kiss, but an action with profound consequences for the kissers' souls:Goblin Fruit: In Victorian times, goblin men had only to offer young girls sumptuous fruits to tempt them to sell their souls. But what does it take to...
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Three tales of supernatural love, each pivoting on a kiss that is no mere kiss, but an action with profound consequences for the kissers' souls:Goblin Fruit: In Victorian times, goblin men had only to offer young girls sumptuous fruits to tempt them to sell their souls. But what does it take to tempt today's savvy girls?Spicy Little Curses: A demon and the ambassador to Hell tussle over the soul of a beautiful English girl in India. Matters become complicated when she falls in love and decides to test her curse.Hatchling: Six days before Esme's fourteenth birthday, her left eye turns from brown to blue. She little suspects what the change heralds, but her small safe life begins to unravel at once. What does the beautiful, fanged man want with her, and how is her fate connected to a mysterious race of demons?
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Format: ebook
ASIN: 9780545055857
Publish date: 01-10-2009
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Edition language: English
This review can also be read on my blog, Reading Robyn where you will find examples of art seen in the book."They simply do as their own grandparents taught them, leave the baskets and keep their eyes down, no matter how great the temptation to peer into the forest. They don't want to see what might...
I think it's already been decided that I'm a Laini Taylor fangirl. I can't help but fall for her gorgeously lush writing. But that said, there's always a slight worry with me when I pick up something different by an author - what works in longform may not work in short; her prose is gorgeous, but ho...
A must read. I am not a huge fan of short stories but Laini Taylor blew me away. All three of the stories are amazingly beautiful.
Laini Taylor, I think I love you. Your brain must be a wonderful place. (What really makes this are the gorgeous illustrations by the author's husband, Jim DiBartolo -- see here, here, here, and here for examples -- which makes it even more puzzling how that awful book cover managed to come about. M...
All the stars. All of them.Review incessant fangirling to come.
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