However, when my son broke his arm and had to spend the night in hospital last October I was dying for SOMETHING to read, and when I walked into Chapters there it was, my nemesis. I nearly didn't read this book because I was horribly afraid that it would be too much like my own small-winged-faery-hunter-with-knife-and-crows book (can you blame me?!) and I dreaded the possibility that Laini Taylor might have told the same story I had, and better. Blackbringer does establish a distinct world from that in Daughter of Smoke and Bone, one in which you can sit back and enjoy your fish and chips! (Rating 3.75 bumped to 4)

The language and inventiveness is present in this series and I feel the characters are more developed than in Taylor’s debut novel. I enjoyed this book however, if you haven’t read Laini Taylor’s work before, I’d start with The Daughter of Bone and Smoke Series.

I always enjoy Taylor’s language and the story (about a faerie who protects the world from devils) is inventive. She might have been joking, but I’m pretending otherwise! Taylor’s faerie world, and the language she uses to inhabit it, transported me to a faraway place which reminded me of the British Isles. Ah, nothing like excellent fish and chips! As Abby told me at lunch today, a book review is only successful when you get to the end and you’re hungrier than when you started. Really excellent fish and chips with wonderfully battered and melt in your mouth Atlantic cod, malted vinegar and crisped chips! That’s my food analogy for Laini Taylor’s Blackbringer (Dreamdark #1).

Blackbringer by Laini Taylor