I loved Days of Blood and Starlight, so much more than the first book. It’s always hard to review second books in trilogies, but if you stalled after Daughter of Smoke and Bone, it may be worth your time to give it a second chance. Thank god we’ve got past all that mushiness between Karou and Akiva. For perhaps obvious reasons, they’re not spending much time together now and there’s none of that pesky pining you so often get. Plus there’s more time spent in Eretz, with additional world-building.