Originially posted at On the Wings of Books 
 This was a really hard review to write as pretty much everyone I know that has read this loved it. I did not. I did like Daughter of Smoke and Bone, though as five months have passed since I listened to it I can say that it was by no means as memorable for me as it was for others. 
 I listened to the audiobook, narrated by Khristine Hvam. She is one of my favorite narrators and while I didn't enjoy the book as much as I hoped I did enjoy her narration. 
 The best part of Days of Blood and Starlight for me was the writing. Her writing is beautiful and for someone like me who struggles with imagery she made me able to see things. 
 So what was the problem with Days of Blood and Starlight? It was depressing. And it was boring. 
 Despite the awesome narrating and writing it was a struggle to finish the audio and there were a couple of times that I considered stopping because I was so bored. I don't have one specific thing I can point to as to what bored me, just that I was more interested in work, then the story. I also thought it was a lot darker than Daughter of Smoke and Bone and I wasn't quite prepared for that level of darkness. 
 In the second book in the series Karou is now working for Thiago (for those that have not read Daughter of Smoke and Bone he is not someone you want to work for) doing Brimstone's job of resurrection. The war between the chimera and the seraphim still rages on, with Karou and Akiva on opposite sides. Karou is still (understandably) pissed at Akiva, and Akiva thinks she is dead. I liked that this tension was in Days of Blood and Starlight and that Laini Taylor didn't resolve the issues between Karou and Akiva in the beginning of the book like so many others. 
 I didn't really care for Karou in Days of Blood and Starlight. She wasn't as strong of a person as she was in Daughter of Smoke and Bone. I realize that things happened and that can break a person down, but I felt like she changed a lot and in some ways was very accepting of her new fate. Even though she was in an unfavorable position I still wanted her to be that strong character that she was in Daughter of Smoke and Bone. 
 Most of my favorite parts of Days of Blood and Starlight revolved around Zuzana. I loved her even more in this book than in the previous one. She is one kick-ass bff and I wish there would have been a lot more of her and less of other some of the other characters. Both her and her boyfriend Mik provided the small amount of lightness that I so desperately needed in Days of Blood and Starlight.