Even nonfantasy lovers will find themselves absorbed by Taylor's masterful, elegant work.

Di Bartolo's illustrations provide tantalizing visual preludes to each tale, which are revealed as the stories unfold. Laini Taylor Lips Touch: Three Times Hardcover Octoby Laini Taylor (Author), Jim Di Bartolo (Illustrator) 278 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 30.99 45 Used from 1.75 7 New from 25.72 1 Collectible from 30. Each is, in vividly distinctive fashion, a mesmerizing love story that comes to a satisfying but never predictable conclusion. The stories build in complexity and intensity, culminating in the breathtaking 'Hatchling,' which opens with a spectacularly gripping prologue ('Esm swayed on her feet. The second story in LIPS TOUCH: THREE TIMES by Laini Taylor is called Spicy Little Curses and it takes place in post-WWI British India. 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 Esm, 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. Little, Brown, 18.99 (420p) ISBN 978-2-6 National Book Award finalist Taylor (Lips Touch: Three Times) again weaves a masterful mix.

Laini taylor lips touch three times