![]() ![]() One day he is compelled to escape by unseen forces and he goes back to his haunted Breton coast. The Drowned: A Tale of Mystery and Horror (2004) This is an interesting tale set in 1800 Paris, about Theophile who can’t remember why he spent five years in an asylum. Even nonfantasy lovers will find themselves absorbed by Taylor's masterful, elegant work. Laini Taylor Books in Order (By Release Date) 1. Di Bartolo's illustrations provide tantalizing visual preludes to each tale, which are revealed as the stories unfold. Each is, in vividly distinctive fashion, a mesmerizing love story that comes to a satisfying but never predictable conclusion. Laini and Jim live in Portland, Oregon with their daughter. ![]() She is married to illustrator Jim Di Bartolo, with whom she has collaborated with. ![]() Laini earned her English degree from UC Berkeley. She is the author of the Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy. The stories build in complexity and intensity, culminating in the breathtaking “Hatchling,” which opens with a spectacularly gripping prologue (“Esmé swayed on her feet. Laini Taylor is the author of the Dreamdark books: BLACKBRINGER, which Kirkus said belongs at the top of everyones fantasy must-read list, and its sequel. Laini Taylor is an American author of young adult fantasy novels. She explores the potentially awkward conceit in three dramatically different fantasies, each featuring a young female protagonist out of place in the world she inhabits: contemporary Kizzy, who so yearns to be a normal, popular teenager that she forgets the rules of her Old Country upbringing and is seduced by a goblin in disguise Anamique, living in British colonial India, silenced forever due to a spell cast upon her at birth and Esmé, who at 14 discovers she is host to another-nonhuman-being. Taylor offers a powerful trio of tales, each founded upon the consequences of a kiss. ![]()
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