Just look at the cover of "Blackbringer", the first book of "Dreamdark" by Laini Taylor and you know this is going to be an unusual book. There is a picture of a very small fairy with tiny pointed ears, her wings aloft, holding a tiny dagger and sitting high on the back of a crow.
In fact she is scruffy, headstrong and determined. Magpie Windwitch is her name. She is not only a fairy but a very special one who, up till now, flies around the world with her band of crows, defeating devils and imprisoning them once more into bottles. But she stumbles upon evidence of a very powerful being and hurries home to Dreamdark to find out all she can in order to defeat this horror who devours all in his way.
This story is complicated at the beginning as you maneuver among the dialogue and characters who are djinns, the creators of the world and a multitude of faeries and imps, both good and bad. One particular endearing soul to both the reader and to Magpie is the warrior Talon, a Prince of Dreamdark, who is a fairy who cannot fly because of stunted wings. His determination is evident when he finds his own way of overcoming his disability.
But we finally discover who Magpie really is and why it is her birthright to overcome the Blackbringer, that creature who is about to rip open the fabric of the world.
I am amazed at the complexity of this world that the author has created where events and explanations unfold in an unexpected and detailed manner. It took me a while but I loved it. Good readers - try it.
2 comments:
Is the plot extremley complex to understand or is it simply revealing what everything really is as you read the book?
-Carmen
P.S. May I read this book next?
Hi Carmen,
I think that there is almost too much information at the beginning so that you are a bit befuddled about who is who and what is what. But I kept with it and it did pay off. Mrs. T
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