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. Laini Taylor grabs your attention with the first lines: Let me tell you, "Lips Touch" is not that kind of book. I am familiar with YA literature enough to know how horribly, horribly wrong a collection of short stories about kissing can go (see, for example, The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire and Kisses from Hell). What does the beautiful, fanged man want with her, and how is her fate connected to a mysterious race of demons? She little suspects what the change heralds, but her small safe life begins to unravel at once. Hatchling: Six days before Esme's fourteenth birthday, her left eye turns from brown to blue. Matters become complicated when she falls in love and decides to test her curse. Spicy Little Curses: A demon and the ambassador to Hell tussle over the soul of a beautiful English girl in India. But what does it take to tempt today's savvy girls? Goblin Fruit: In Victorian times, goblin men had only to offer young girls sumptuous fruits to tempt them to sell their souls. Blurb (GR): Three tales of supernatural love, each pivoting on a kiss that is no mere kiss, but an action with profound consequences for the kissers' souls:
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