She’s haunted by nightmares where the most horrible beasts pursue her endlessly, she ran away from her family at a young age and changed her name, and she’s about to go study the corpses of chimaera discovered in the Moroccan desert. Eliza (our new PoV) was a really likable character and the first 60-70% of her story was awesome. On top of all this, the sky in Eretz is becoming discolored and the Stellians are in quite the panic…Īkiva and Karou continue to have much angst between them, but there’s a good resolution. She fears the angels and the recurring nightmares equally because for her, the end has basically arrived. The people of Earth are enthralled, except for Eliza, a graduate student and “prophet” in hiding. Much to their horror, they find that scarred Jael and the Dominion have already made their debut on Earth to much fanfare. Miraculously, Akiva’s angels have allied with Karou’s chimaera and they go to fight the Dominion. It truly wasn’t bad, but there was an additional POV added that ended up getting a little weird and had a significant impact on the outcome.ĭreams of Gods and Monsters occurs immediately following the events of Days of Blood & Starlight. I both loved it and felt somewhat betrayed by the ending, which sounds kind of horrible when I write it. I really struggled to give this last book a rating.

The New York Times bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy comes to a stunning conclusion as – from the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond – humans, chimaera, and seraphim strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.

And, perhaps, for themselves.īut with even bigger threats on the horizon, are Karou and Akiva strong enough to stand among the gods and monsters? It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people. When the brutal angel emperor brings his army to the human world, Karou and Akiva are finally reunited – not in love, but in a tentative alliance against their common enemy. By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera’s rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. Two worlds are poised on the brink of a vicious war.

Dreams of gods & monsters laini taylor