Silksinger by Laini Taylor
… Silksinger starts with a bang. Apparently Laini Taylor is determined to shave a few years off my life, as the opening chapter grabs the reader by the throat and runs (or flies, as might be more appropriate)… I continue to be impressed by Taylor’s world-building skills… Silksinger has few slow moments and a lot to recommend it. Though the series is labeled for an age group of 9-12, it’s perfectly satisfying fare for adults as well. So if your son or daughter has these sitting on their shelves, go steal — er, I mean, borrow them… Read the rest.
I was enjoying one of my favorite pastimes; browsing the virtual bookshelves of Amazon.com, and ran across Dreamdark:Blackbringer, but, for some reason I didn’t realize it was a series(you’d think Amazon would do a better job of letting their customers know books are in a series). It doesn’t look like my normal choice of reads, but it caught my interest and the what I read of the sample is impressive writing.