Lips Touch Three Times by Laini Taylor
Jul. 8th, 2010 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreThis is a YA collection of three stories in which a kiss changes the outcome of events. I read this as an ARC and grabbed it on the strength of the pencils of some of the illustrations in the final version of the book, and because the first story is based on Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market.” You can see the illustrations for that story and read approximately half of that story at Amazon.
The stories are all interesting, and based on folklore. I prefer the first two stories-the one based on “Goblin Market” and one set in the British Raj involving both a woman who bargains to save the souls of children from hell, and a young woman cursed so that her voice will kill anyone who hears it (despite the “good white British heroines, bad evil Hindu spirit” aspect, which leaves something of a sour taste once it clicks)-but had more difficulty with the last, involving a woman and her daughter raised by immortal Russian spirits, though I can’t pin down why.
All in all, it was a pretty good collection, and I’m considering getting the hardcover purely on the basis of having all the illustrations.
The stories are all interesting, and based on folklore. I prefer the first two stories-the one based on “Goblin Market” and one set in the British Raj involving both a woman who bargains to save the souls of children from hell, and a young woman cursed so that her voice will kill anyone who hears it (despite the “good white British heroines, bad evil Hindu spirit” aspect, which leaves something of a sour taste once it clicks)-but had more difficulty with the last, involving a woman and her daughter raised by immortal Russian spirits, though I can’t pin down why.
All in all, it was a pretty good collection, and I’m considering getting the hardcover purely on the basis of having all the illustrations.