Lips Touch Three Times

It's been a long time since I devoured a book in one gulp.  It was like a delicious addiction - I couldn't put it down.  Lips Touch Three Times by Laini Taylor is an explosion of imagery, fairy tales, twists, pulls and pushes, tastes and sights, implications and delights.  My normally rooted feet actually left the ground, and I was hurtled into a completely different world.  I recommend.  Highly, wildly.

 

You also get the absolutely stunning visual treat of Jim Di Bartolo's illustrations.  I was transfixed by this book's cover, and was taken aback when I found more lush illustrations inside.  

Ms. Taylor begins with a spin-off of one my favorite poems, The Goblin Market...

  

before transporting her readers to hot, sticky, and exotic India for a re-telling of the Orpheus myth...

  

and then finishing off with a tale of her own imagining. 

I've been an aspiring writer for a while now, and have always wanted to play with The Goblin Market and the Orpheus myth in a number of different ways.  To see Ms. Taylor play with these stories so lovingly, and so seductively, is inspiring. 

If you haven't already read it, please do yourself a huge favor and read the book.  I promise you that all your senses will be engaged.

P.s.  In response to a special request...marshmallow madness!