After all, if you're not curious by reading that little intro above, then there's nothing that I can say to persuade you to pick it up! And I don't know about you, but she had me at hello with that name! I'll just say it's really good and leave it at that. It begins underneath India, on the cusp of the last century when the British were still riding elephants with maharajas and skirmishing on the arid frontiers of the empire. It's a love story with dancing and death in it, and singing and souls and shadows reeled out on kite strings. This is the story of the curse and the kiss, the demon and the girl. She might kill everyone she loves.Ī particular demon in India rather hoped that she would. She might forget her curse just long enough to get careless and let it come true.
A cursed girl with lips still moist from her first kiss might feel suddenly wild, like a little monsoon.
New hunger is born with a throb and caution falls away. And it *may* just be my favorite of the three.įirst paragraph of Spicy Little Curses Such As These: Spicy Little Curses Such As These is the second novella in the collection. Does Kizzy? Everything she knows will be put to the test when Kizzy attracts the attention of the new boy, the oh-so-dreamy new boy at school. She grew up listening to her grandmother tell stories about goblins. (13)Kizzy, no questions asked, has a weird family. The girls with hungry eyes who pray each night to wake up as someone else. The goblins want girls who dream so hard about being pretty their yearning leaves a palpable trail, a scent goblins can follow like sharks on a soft bloom of blood. The girl watching the lovely ones sitting on their boyfriends' laps? Yes. The pert, lovely ones with butterfly tattoos in secret places, sitting on their boyfriends' laps? No, not them. You could walk across a high school campus and point them out: not her, not her, her. There is a certain kind of girl the goblins crave.
And maybe just maybe you'll want to go back and read Rossetti at some point. If you're unfamiliar with the original, give this one a try. If you're already a fan of Goblin Market, I don't know how you could resist this little story. Sometimes for good sometimes for bad.Īre you familiar with Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market? Goblin Fruit uses that story quite cleverly as a basis. Lips Touch Three Times is a collection of three novellas by the oh-so-amazing Laini Taylor.
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