This was the easiest 5-star read for me in 2019, and I immediately became one of Laini Taylor’s biggest fans because of it.

The way Karou’s origin story unfolds is fantastic, with just a little more every few pages, until the big revelation hits around the end and you’re shaking the book trying to squeeze out more information. Here we have chimaera and seraphim fighting a never-ending war, with loads of bloodshed and hatred and prejudice, and yet, somehow, a chimaera and seraph fall in love. This little puppeteer is everything.Īs for the story, the concept is fabulous. I love Karou and Akiva, but Zuzanna is by far my favourite character. The characters are interesting and wonderfully flawed. I’ve never been to Prague, except when this book turned out to be a portkey that delivered me there. Laini Taylor’s almost superhuman ability to set the scene is gush-worthy, and just for that, the book deserves five stars, IMO. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself? My Thoughtsĭaughter of Smoke & Bone is one of those books that will stay with me forever. When beautiful, haunted Akiva fixes fiery eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real, she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious “errands”, she speaks many languages – not all of them human – and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grows dangerously low.Īnd in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war. Book 1 The BlurbĪround the world, black hand prints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. I have HUGE FEELINGS about the last book, and will rant about that today. *** This post will contain major spoilers. For underneath, a masterpiece may hide.Īnd that, my friends, is the case with Daughter of Smoke & Bone. The point of the above rambling is that there’s SO MUCH TRUTH in the old saying. Tallulah compares the different covers over on her blog, if you want to check out how gorgeous these babies can look. In fact, if I’m being totally honest, I despise these covers. The Smoke & Bone covers do nothing for me.

It’s only because of my fabulous book-recommending genius of a friend, Tallulah, that I even glanced in the direction of Daughter of Smoke & Bone.

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