Did our heroine pay heed? Oh no – not at all! So focused was she on getting that first kiss. Soon enough the friendship blossoms and he asks her for a picnic date but the setting is a cemetery. His looks have the girls swooning but he has eyes only for Kizzy. Ah but the goblins have their eyes set on her and soon enough a very handsome boy enters her school. “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. ― Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Timesġ6-year-old Kizzy paid no heed to these tales and thought of nothing else but to be kissed. The kiss was deadly as it enabled them to take the girl’s soul with them. Her dead grandmother had often cautioned her of tales of goblins who masquerade as handsome men to steal away pretty girls by luring them with kisses. The first tale is titled Goblin Fruit in which our heroine Kizzy yearns for a kiss. These are supernatural stories therefore the innocent Kiss is actually something which will ensure destruction of another kind. Each story draws the reader into the dream of that first kiss which is so magical yet seems unattainable and impossible. Lips touch three times is an almost lyrical set of three tales spun around the all important kiss but that which leads to dark consequences. New hunger is born with a throb and caution falls away.” ― Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times She has been notable awarded the Cybils Award 2009 and is also the finalist for the National Book Award 2009. However she is best known for her Daughter of Smoke & Bone series. She aspired to write as a child but was 35 when her first novel Dreamdark:Blackbringer was published. Laini Taylor is an American writer who specialises in YA and fantasy fiction genre. Yes her writing is truly bewitching! Title: Lips touch three times Author: Laini Taylor Genre: Fantasy fiction Publication: Hatchet I have re-read it 18 times and ill be picking it up several more times. Since these would let me delve into her writing style with ease, I immediately picked it up.

Intrigued I looked her up on Goodreads, and found a collection of short stories “Lips Touch Three Times”.

I think it was at one of my book club meets that someone mentioned Laini Taylor and her superbly crafted stories.