Because, as we have seen so many times in our real world, the natural compulsion is to answer violence with more of the same, to wreck vengeance, to make the other side feel your pain.

He is the root cause of Madrigal becoming Karou and, we learnt at the end of the first book, the reason why Karou will never again see her beloved Brimstone and Issa and the rest of her chimaera family. Either way, her stories unfold in such a realistic manner and best of all, she ensures that all this is palpable to the reader.While she doesn't trust the White Wolf, she's agreed to serve as their resurrectionist to atone for her part in their people's downfall. The perfectly fit together and the coversations between them are so funny with dirty jokes and all that stuff.

So, like, this book is trying to tell me that Akiva was the nicest guy ever, and dreaming of peace, but then he did all of the hand-burning stuff in reaction to seeing Madrigal get killed? Kirkus Reviews gave a mixed review of the novel, saying that its "memorable characters and turns of phrase" helped the novel, which was affected by its plot of "mostly .characters we're introduced to have such little screen time that it's tough to feel anything much for them beyond fleeting thoughts. Both the characters and world building in this series are created wonderfully and incredibly vivid--which is surreal for such an imaginative fantasy world. Also the scene with Karou and Akiva and Thiago in the same room and the scene after that was awesome. At one point in Days of Blood and Starlight, Karou says that their story is like Romeo and Juliet’s but instead of waking up to find that Romeo had committed suicide, she wakes up to find out that he went on to decimate not only her entire immediate family, destroy her city and then proceed to commit genocide against her entire ra Unlike Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Days of Blood and Starlight flits between the perspectives of Karou, Akiva, Zuzanna, and a plethora of secondary characters we are unfamiliar with.