Review: Zuzana and Mik's story-Sweet and romantic with a fairytale quality and I loved it!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 1, 2013
Night of Cake & Puppets is a novella in Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke & Bone series. It is the story of how Zuzana and Mik became a couple. It is a sweet and romantic fairytale and I loved it! Ms. Taylor does an excellent job at capturing the feeling of a crush on the verge of love:"Our eyes meet. And...it's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent.""My face responds without authorization from my brain, so the resulting smile feels like the biggest, most unguarded, goofiest smile I've ever unleashed in my entire life. I didn't even know my face could do this. It's like there were hidden zippers in my cheeks. Jesus."Karou is incorporated into the story as Zuzana's supportive friend, but the story is written in Zuzana and Mik's alternating perspectives. It's been a while since I read either of the existing books in the Daughter of Smoke & Bone series but this novella has me motivated to reread the series in preparation for the third and final installment due to release in April, 2014. It can't come soon enough!#1: Daughter of Smoke & Bone#2: Days of Blood & Starlight#2.5: Night of Cake & Puppets (novella)#3: Dreams of Gods & Monsters (April, 2014)My favorite quotes:"No, I have to lure him out, like a will-o'-the-wisp, tease him deeper and deeper into the forest until he is lost and doomed. Without the forest or the doom - just the luring. Like a Venus flytrap that says I am a delicious flower come taste me and then snap! Devour. Without the devouring. Well, maybe a little devouring.""Close your eyes and music paints light vines and calligraphy on the darkness within you.""...holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken."“Life doesn’t need magic to be magical.”