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When the ancient evil of the Blackbringer rises to unmake the world, only one determined faerie stands in its way. However, Magpie Windwitch, granddaughter of the West Wind, is not like other faeries.

While her kind live in seclusion deep in the forests of Dreamdark, she's devoted her life to tracking down and recapturing devils escaped from their ancient bottles, just as her hero, the legendary Bellatrix, did 25, years ago.

With her faithful gang of crows, she travels the world fighting where others would choose to flee. But when a devil escapes from a bottle sealed by the ancient Djinn King himself- the creator of the world- she may be in over her head. Net Developers Series. Download Free Dog Slobber! Download Free Don't Ever Change.

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Free Ebook Download Dragon Mound. Free Ebook Download Ella Evergreen. Free Ebook Download Emergency Imaging. Free Ebook Dr. Horatio vs. Free Ebook Drag Queens at the Cabaret. Published September 17th by Putnam Juvenile first published January 1st More Details Original Title. Faeries of Dreamdark 2. Other Editions 7. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Silksinger , please sign up. Has anybody found an ePub or Mobi edition of this book yet?

I've spebt a day online trying to find one, and cannot! Anybody any ideas? Terry Searles i tweeted the author last year and there is only a few hard copies around See all 8 questions about Silksinger….

Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Silksinger Faeries of Dreamdark, 2. Jun 19, Betsy rated it it was amazing. There was a boy. He came into my library branch. Couldn't have been more than ten years of age. A good kid. He knew to come up to the reference desk to ask his question, and he wasn't shy about it either. Without hesitation I virtually dragged the kid over to the middle grade reader section, then got some clarification.

I looked about. Clearly this was a Spiderwick boy. We get them sometimes. Once Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black made it okay for boys to be into fairies the gender roles dissolved just a little. No go. Not interested. Yes, those he'd take. So it was that my piece de resistance turned out to be Blackbringer now published merely as Dreamdark: Blackbringer. I owe a lot to this action-packed series by Laini Taylor. In the first book Ms.

Taylor took the old tropes, turned them on their heads, gave them a swift paddling, then lit them on fire. So to speak. Now she has come out with a sequel and has shifted the narrative around a bit. Just as gripping as its predecessor Dreamdark: Silksinger continues the story of Maggie Windwitch, introducing new characters, new situations, but the same old excitement. Defeating the Blackbringer? Continue to fly around with crow brothers?

Only now fairy Maggie Windwitch is on a mission. Little does she know that she has allies in this quest.

Whisper Silksinger is the last of her clan, sworn to protect the djinn Azazel. Hirik, another fairy, is from a disgraced clan, must in turn protect Whisper. Add in some betrayals, battles, and a villain hiding where you'd least suspect him, and a demon army of an untold scale and Maggie may yet find that the Blackbringer was nothing compared to the new dangers she now faces. I decided to test the book. If I picked it up without rereading its predecessor, would I be able to follow the action in Silksinger or would lose me right at the start?

As it happens, readers who've never even read the first book may be able to jump into the second without any difficulty. You really only have to know that 1: Djinns are all powerful, 2: Fairies are moderately powerful, 3: Someone wants to kill the djinns and that's bad. I didn't get around to rereading the first book, and found that Ms. Taylor catches you up on the second without dragging down the narrative one jot. Fair play to the author then. It's also a nice thick book, that's for sure.

But for as long as it is, you wouldn't really expect the story to fly by as swiftly as it does. It is a fact of nature that the more exciting a book is, the faster it flies by. If Ms. Taylor has any special writing skill superpower, it would have to be something along the lines of Action Ratcheting.

That woman just knows how to crank up the tension. This is admirable when you consider how accomplished the characters are. A child reader wants the heroes to be powerful in their own ways, but not so powerful that they don't face dramatic situations. Whisper and Maggie combined would be near undefeatable, so Taylor keeps them separate from one another for quite some time.

She also manages to disarm them in various ways, which doesn't seem like it would be particularly easy. The point of view in this book actually kind of rests behind four different sets of eyeballs.

There's Maggie, of course. Then there's the Hirik, Whisper, and even little Batch. Taylor doesn't stop there. These are the main characters so you get inside their heads the most, but even the villains get a bit of time to strut on the stage, thinking their dread thoughts. A consistently shifting and changing point of view is a difficult beast to master. A lot of the time authors will avoid it entirely in favor of nice, simple, quiet, easygoing first person narratives.

The fact that Ms. Taylor makes it work as well as she does is to be commended, praised, puzzled over, and commended yet again. The first book was the first in a series, true, but it felt like a stand alone book. Silksinger doesn't go quite that far. It's definitely ends on more of a To Be Continued note. Slowly kids are discovering it.

Slowly they are loving it. And those who've fallen in love with the first one will find just as much to enjoy in this next. A worthy sequel to a fantastic fantasy. Ages 10 and up. View all 4 comments. Aug 03, Arie rated it really liked it Shelves: doors-and-portals , bipoc-rep , children , fantasy-traditional , faerytales , textile-fiction. That's ok. There'll be a third book one day - right? I mean, this was published five years ago, but Laini Taylor's been busy with the fantastic Smoke and Bone series I'm actually glad I didn't read this series when it first came out, as much as I would have loved it then - even longer to wait!

Dec 20, Alicia marked it as on-hold Shelves: fantasy , fae , favorite-authors , kindle-unavailable , own-audiobook , series-next , own-hardcover , own-to-read. I've been searching for a copy of this out-of-print book at a reasonable price for months. I finally have it in possession! My precious! View all 15 comments.

Sep 14, Chachic rated it really liked it. Originally posted here. Silksinger is the second book in the Dreamdark series by Laini Taylor and is the sequel to Blackbringer.

I found Blackbringer a little harder to get into that her other books but ended up enjoying it quite a bit once I got used to the writing and the worldbuilding. I picked up Silksinger right after reading the first book because I Originally posted here.

I picked up Silksinger right after reading the first book because I wanted to see how the story would progress. Okay, I just realized that I posted my Blackbringer review a month ago - I can't believe it's taken me this long to write about the sequel.

Sorry about that! I've heard from other bloggers that Silksinger is a lot better than its predecessor, Blackbringer , and I have to agree. The second installment in Laini Taylor's series about faeries is a lot easier to get into that the first book.

Or maybe it's also because I'm more familiar with the details so it wasn't as difficult as experiencing Dreamdark for the first time.

I found the action-packed adventure story engaging right from the start. Here's a glimpse of how the first chapter begins: "Whisper Silksinger knew two kinds of death. There was the peaceful kind, quiet as eyelids fluttering shut, and there was the kind with teeth, sudden as a spurt of blood, a devil pounce, a scream.

She had seen both. Of her whole clan only three faeries remained, and now death had come for them too. And it had come with teeth. The characters in the first book - Magpie, her crow companions and Talon - are back in this novel but new characters are also present.

What I liked about Silksinger is that Laini Taylor continued to breathe life to the world that she created in Blackbringer by introducing new characters like Whisper and Hirik, moving the setting to different locations in the same world and adding new kinds of magic. I feel like there are more layers to the story as it moves forward, giving it more depth. I like that each Dreamdark novel focuses on one of the djinn and the fairies that have special connections to them.

So even if Magpie, Talon and crows are in this novel, it really is more of Whisper and Hirik's story. At the start, Whisper might seem like such a timid person but she has a backbone of steel when it comes to doing her duty as a guardian of Azazel. She's not as feisty as Magpie but she has her own strengths. And Hirik is the same - he's determined to bring back honor to his clan by serving the Azazel in spite of all the dangers involved. I've only read a handful of middle grade novels this year but I've really liked all of them, which shouldn't be surprising because I base my reading choices on recommendations from blogging buddies or Goodreads friends.

After reading Silksinger , I really felt bad that the publisher has decided not to continue the series. I don't understand why because it's well-written and I would really like to read more of Laini Taylor's writing. Her Dreamdark books are different from her YA novels, which I think is a good thing because it shows her capabilities as a writer. She switches from middle grade epic fantasy to YA urban fantasy and does it successfully. Isn't that amazing? I believe she's working on Daughter of Smoke and Bone's sequel and then she'll probably work on the third novel in the trilogy after that.

Which means she won't be able to come back to Dreamdark until after a few years have passed.