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...
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...
Lips Touch Three Times is a compilation of three novellas written by Laini Taylor and illustrated by her husband, Jim DiBartolo. The novellas defy a neat and easy categorization. The main female character in each book is a young adult, a young teenage girl. Each novella takes place in an urban lo...
This collection of fairy tales is like none other. Though the three stories differ in length, each one is whole and haunting and satisfying. I was stunned to discover that the entire book was printed in color (!!!) and each story is richly adorned with *pages* of beautiful illustrations! Once again,...
Today's current art media: Book covers. I will be the first to admit that I am a sucker for a lovely dust jacket. Today, the bookstores display rows and rows of lovely and passionate art at the front of a well-defined novel. I, sad to admit, dodged The Hunger Games because of the front cover. I alw...
There are a very few books in the world that I finish and then turn around and read again. The English Patient was one. The last one was I think The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (READ IT!). I am happy to say that this book by Laini Taylor was another.In this whole world, there are very f...
When I started this book I had zero idea what it was about. I knew nothing about it, other than Laini Taylor wrote it, and Laini Taylor is a word-building genius, so I wanted to read it. I hadn't even read the summary, so I didn't know that this was actually a collection of three completely separat...
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