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Dreams of Gods & Monsters is the sequel to Days of Blood & Starlight, the second sequel to Daughter of Smoke & Bone, and thus the third and final book in Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy. It was released on April 8, 2014 in the US and April 17, 2014 in the UK.[1]
Publisher's Synopsis
By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz.
Common enemy, common cause.
When Jael’s brutal seraph army trespasses into the human world, the unthinkable becomes essential, and Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat. It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people.
And, perhaps, for themselves. Toward a new way of living, and maybe even love.
But there are bigger threats than Jael in the offing. A vicious queen is hunting Akiva, and, in the skies of Eretz...something is happening. Massive stains are spreading like bruises from horizon to horizon; the great winged stormhunters are gathering as if summoned, ceaselessly circling, and a deep sense of wrong pervades the world.
What power can bruise the sky?
From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.
At the very barriers of space and time, what do gods and monsters dream of? And does anything else matter?[2]
Plot Summary
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil pressed their hands to their hearts and started the apocalypse.
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Once upon a time, a girl went to see a monster menagerie where all the exhibits were dead.
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Once upon a time...A journey began, that would stitch all the worlds together with light.
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Once upon a time, there was only darkness. And there were monsters vast as worlds who swam in it.
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List of Characters
Returning
- Karou
- Madrigal (mentioned)
- Akiva
- Kazimir Andrasko
- Zuzana Nováková
- Mikolas Vavra
- Esther Van de Vloet
- Brimstone (mentioned)
- Ziri (as Thiago)
- Virko
- Liraz
- Issa
- Jael
- Nisk
- Lisseth
- Razgut
- Oora
- Sarsagon
- Bast
- Emylion
- Haxaya (as Ten)
- Rark
- Hazael (mentioned)
- Amzallag
- Tangris
- Bashees
- Aegir
- Melliel
- Nitid (mentioned)
- Ellai (mentioned)
- Tomáš Nováková (mentioned)
- Balieros
- Ixander
- Minas
- Viya
- Azay
- Rath
- Izîl (mentioned)
- Joram (mentioned)
- Festival (mentioned)
- Byon (mentioned)
- Ormerod
- Yasri
New
- Eliza Jones
- Gabriel Edinger
- Morgan Toth
- Taj
- Catherine
- Keita-Eiri
- Vazra
- Ashtra
- Lilivett
- Helget
- Uthem
- Rua
- Stivan
- Eidolon
- Yav
- Scarab
- The Pope
- Yvonne Chen
- Anuj Chaudhary
- Xathanael
- Sorath
- Elyon
- Kasgar
- Vovi
- Awar
- Briathos
- Orit
- Wiwul
- Agwilal
- Sihid
- Ves
- Youssef Amhali
- Carnassial
- Spectral
- Reave
- Nightingale
- Elazael
- Seminole Gaines
- Spivetti
- Traveller
- Methuselah
- Iaoth
- Dvira
- Kleos
- Arieth
- Cardinal Schotte
- Mechel
- Samurai
Memorable Quotes
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Reception
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Media
Cover Art
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