She wanted to write memoirs and autograph them at a tiny bookshop in Rome, with a line of admirers snaking down a pink-lit alley. ” Kizzy wanted to be a woman who would dive off the prow of a sailboat into the sea, who would fall back in a tangle of sheets, laughing, and who could dance a tango, lazily stroke a leopard with her bare foot, freeze an enemy’s blood with her eyes, make promises she couldn’t possibly keep, and then shift the world to keep them. Here is a passage from the first story that reveals the gorgeousness of the prose:
Laini Taylor has a wonderfully rich descriptive style, which helps you to imagine the characters, the settings and the worlds she creates to perfection. The Queen and the girl are fated to meet. She comes from a strange and violent other world, where a brutal and beautiful Queen rules over dreadful soulless creatures. The final story introduces us to a girl who discovers the real reason why her mother never lets them stay in one place for long. She has kept silent for years but now she is in love and she longs to break her silence to tell her suitor her true feelings. If she speaks, all who hear her will die.
In the second story, Ana has lived her whole life burdened by a curse. She fantasizes about kissing him, but she has no idea what the consequence of that kiss will be. In the first, a girl who has always been an outsider finally gets noticed by the smoldering new guy at school. That is to say, they are pretty substantial short stories, which is all good, because man can Laini Taylor write. Well good news folks! The three tales in Laini’s book are each long, long enough to be broken down into chapters, in fact. I’m not generally a reader of short stories, so when I saw that Lips Touch: Three Times was a collection of short stories, my initial response was, “Too bad,” plus shoulder shrug. What can I say? I was right, and I’ve got Lips Touch to prove it. For some reason, when I read Laini Taylor’s amazing fantasy Blackbringer last year, I kept thinking, “I’ll bet she’d be good at writing something romantic.” I’m not talking Harlequin romance here people, I just mean a seriously romantic story.
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