Dreams of Gods and Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #3)
Dreams of Gods and Monsters
(Daughter of Smoke & Bone #3)
By Laini Taylor
My Rating: 5
Genre: YA, Fantasy
Finished on: Nov 12th, 2019
Are you sure this was a trilogy? Was this reallyy a trilogy?!
If you ask me, then I don't think it is!
If it is, then I would like to ask Laini Taylor, what the hell was this book about?!
This is the book where the title made sense in the last 10% of the book.
And the entire trilogy made sense in the last freaking 10% of the book.
Yes! So here it is.
Jael has breached the human world in the hopes of conquering them by fooling them all by claiming they are Gods.
If you ask me, then I don't think it is!
If it is, then I would like to ask Laini Taylor, what the hell was this book about?!
This is the book where the title made sense in the last 10% of the book.
And the entire trilogy made sense in the last freaking 10% of the book.
Yes! So here it is.
Jael has breached the human world in the hopes of conquering them by fooling them all by claiming they are Gods.
Gods with super powers.
Super powers which can somehow solve the problems of entire human kind.
And then the humans are in a frenzy. Some travelling half across the world at the door step of the place where the angels are residing currently, to seek their blessings. And some are shutting doors and having meetings, finding it all suspicious.
And then the humans are in a frenzy. Some travelling half across the world at the door step of the place where the angels are residing currently, to seek their blessings. And some are shutting doors and having meetings, finding it all suspicious.
Well, these are the smart ones.
And across the universe/worlds/dimensions, resides an unusual alliance of Chimaera and Seraphim. Bound by an agreement between Beast's Bane and the White Wolf. But for how long?
When both the parties almost tore each apart, an almost apocalypse triggered by a foolish act from a Chimaera, anyone would think this is the end.
End for everything.
But it wasn't.
Something stopped it. Someone stopped it.
Through something called Srithar
Now Srithar was introduced in "Days of Blood and Starlight", but we couldn't quite understand what it was. And how he acquired it.
Not until the lassttt 10% of the final book. Seriously!
He stopped an apocalypse from happening, merely by transferring the vision of end which he felt, to all the others present in front of him. Every single person, not only did they just feel, but it impacted them so much that it stopped them from raising their swords, stopped them from tearing each others lives apart.
What is this Srithar?
I've been thinking this entire book would be about them uniting together to fight Jael and his Dominion army. A war of Gods and Monsters, maybe? Seraphim + Chimaera = Monsters, who are trying to save the world, and Dominion army = pretending to be Gods, but in reality who are actually trying to end the world?
But my assumption was "War" of Gods and Monsters. What is "Dreams" of Gods and Monsters? And we all found that out later.
A new character is introduced, Eliza, her significance is not quite understood at the beginning, but slowly it began to stir an excitement in us when she easily recognized who the Chimaera were when she and Dr Chaudhary were called to witness what had been buried in the pit. And the most uncanny part? Her dreams were filled with monstrous creatures she mentions as "beasts" and upon seeing the bodies of Chimaera she heaves a sigh of relief because, they are, like, far from beasts?
What is going on?
And whenever Ziri is mentioned in the book, my sensitive heart mourns for him. Here the true - and dead - flesh of Ziri was being broadcasted for the world to see, and there the Dominion sword had pierced the heart of the vessel Ziri's soul was residing in. Though I could predict what would unfold later, my eyes still welled up knowing how he doesn't waste any second to sacrifice himself for the greater good.
That's Ziri for you.
That happens. And so much more. I was getting perplexed by every page, because pages kept getting decreasing but there were so many mysteries which were not resolved. With a simple plan from Karou, courtesy Haxaya's soul, and also Akiva's magic to counter the hamsas effect, they were so very easily able to convince Jael to return home. I mean, it took a little resurrection and some tiny magic to do that. And entire earth is saved. Just like that.
And me as a reader is wondering. Every last book of a trilogy will have some sort of chaos and drama. But in this one, less chaos but more mysteries which needed to be resolved! What is even happening!
We come to know it soon.
Mysterious defeat of Jael. Stelians to the rescue. All well and good.
More 15% to go! What will even happen now?
Akiva is kidnapped. Threatened to be taken along as he could be responsible for the end of all the worlds somehow. Then everything is revealed.
Beasts are coming..
They said. But they forgot to mention what kind of beasts. A myth got twisted into a different meaning and an entire race perished for that.
The beasts weren't chimaera. They were never chimaera. But a sort of blackness which is devouring all the worlds.
And the most shocking part of it all, the Godstars weren't their deity. But they themselves who are going to fight the darkness one day. Whenever that day comes. Chimaera, Seraphim, and even two legendary humans, united together to fight the darkness and become the Godstars they had been worshiping all this time.
Isn't this all too much to take? And the author decides to end this book without ever letting us know how they fared in the war! Because that's Laini Taylor for you. Ending a book in a cliffhanger because that is another story for some other time.
So this book ends. A wonderful journey indeed.
I'm quite distraught on knowing Brimstone and Hazael are really gone. I was hoping till the end maybe their soul is lying around somewhere for them to find and let Karou resurrect them. But I guess, they are really gone.
Festival's character was interesting too. She sacrificed her life and everything, to give birth to a son whom she knows will save the universe one day.
Lastly, my favourite characters: Zuzana and Mik! Who cheered me up in every page they existed in the series. Thank you Laini for creating them. They are the people every depressed soul needs to be with.
TLDR; A wonderful, magical, trilogy. Definitely a must read to all.
And across the universe/worlds/dimensions, resides an unusual alliance of Chimaera and Seraphim. Bound by an agreement between Beast's Bane and the White Wolf. But for how long?
When both the parties almost tore each apart, an almost apocalypse triggered by a foolish act from a Chimaera, anyone would think this is the end.
End for everything.
But it wasn't.
Something stopped it. Someone stopped it.
Through something called Srithar
Now Srithar was introduced in "Days of Blood and Starlight", but we couldn't quite understand what it was. And how he acquired it.
Not until the lassttt 10% of the final book. Seriously!
He stopped an apocalypse from happening, merely by transferring the vision of end which he felt, to all the others present in front of him. Every single person, not only did they just feel, but it impacted them so much that it stopped them from raising their swords, stopped them from tearing each others lives apart.
What is this Srithar?
I've been thinking this entire book would be about them uniting together to fight Jael and his Dominion army. A war of Gods and Monsters, maybe? Seraphim + Chimaera = Monsters, who are trying to save the world, and Dominion army = pretending to be Gods, but in reality who are actually trying to end the world?
But my assumption was "War" of Gods and Monsters. What is "Dreams" of Gods and Monsters? And we all found that out later.
A new character is introduced, Eliza, her significance is not quite understood at the beginning, but slowly it began to stir an excitement in us when she easily recognized who the Chimaera were when she and Dr Chaudhary were called to witness what had been buried in the pit. And the most uncanny part? Her dreams were filled with monstrous creatures she mentions as "beasts" and upon seeing the bodies of Chimaera she heaves a sigh of relief because, they are, like, far from beasts?
What is going on?
And whenever Ziri is mentioned in the book, my sensitive heart mourns for him. Here the true - and dead - flesh of Ziri was being broadcasted for the world to see, and there the Dominion sword had pierced the heart of the vessel Ziri's soul was residing in. Though I could predict what would unfold later, my eyes still welled up knowing how he doesn't waste any second to sacrifice himself for the greater good.
That's Ziri for you.
That happens. And so much more. I was getting perplexed by every page, because pages kept getting decreasing but there were so many mysteries which were not resolved. With a simple plan from Karou, courtesy Haxaya's soul, and also Akiva's magic to counter the hamsas effect, they were so very easily able to convince Jael to return home. I mean, it took a little resurrection and some tiny magic to do that. And entire earth is saved. Just like that.
And me as a reader is wondering. Every last book of a trilogy will have some sort of chaos and drama. But in this one, less chaos but more mysteries which needed to be resolved! What is even happening!
We come to know it soon.
Mysterious defeat of Jael. Stelians to the rescue. All well and good.
More 15% to go! What will even happen now?
Akiva is kidnapped. Threatened to be taken along as he could be responsible for the end of all the worlds somehow. Then everything is revealed.
Beasts are coming..
They said. But they forgot to mention what kind of beasts. A myth got twisted into a different meaning and an entire race perished for that.
The beasts weren't chimaera. They were never chimaera. But a sort of blackness which is devouring all the worlds.
And the most shocking part of it all, the Godstars weren't their deity. But they themselves who are going to fight the darkness one day. Whenever that day comes. Chimaera, Seraphim, and even two legendary humans, united together to fight the darkness and become the Godstars they had been worshiping all this time.
Isn't this all too much to take? And the author decides to end this book without ever letting us know how they fared in the war! Because that's Laini Taylor for you. Ending a book in a cliffhanger because that is another story for some other time.
So this book ends. A wonderful journey indeed.
I'm quite distraught on knowing Brimstone and Hazael are really gone. I was hoping till the end maybe their soul is lying around somewhere for them to find and let Karou resurrect them. But I guess, they are really gone.
Festival's character was interesting too. She sacrificed her life and everything, to give birth to a son whom she knows will save the universe one day.
Lastly, my favourite characters: Zuzana and Mik! Who cheered me up in every page they existed in the series. Thank you Laini for creating them. They are the people every depressed soul needs to be with.
TLDR; A wonderful, magical, trilogy. Definitely a must read to all.
Words: 1028
Chars: 5697
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