Review: Lips Touch: Three Times

Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Three dark, earthy, fantastical, amazing short stories. I made the mistake of being so totally enthralled with the first story that I turned the pages and leapt right into the second. That was a mistake as one should pause to savour the first before jumping right into the second. So I made sure to let a few days go before starting Hatchling. That is an error I often make with short stories and the reason I don't often read them, I get so involved and they end too quickly for my liking.

Anyway, these three stories were just fabulously engrossing, funny, dark and vividly told, and particularly Goblin Fruit, so very real. Teenage girl talk..."mouth babies" ... you have to read it, I totally Lol'd. I think Goblin Fruit and Hatchling could easily be made into full length novels, and I would be first on the list to read them! Four stars from me, and I would add another half star for the vivid illustrations by Jim Di Bartolo. They were wonderfully titillating, they gave some hint of the story to come, and you found yourself drawn back to them throughout the stories as secrets and details were revealed.



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