Book 8/30.
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.
In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.
And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.
Meet Karou. 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. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out.
When one of the strangers—beautiful, haunted Akiva—fixes his fire-colored 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. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?
Daughter of Smoke & Bone tells the age-old tale of forbidden love mixed in with the divine battle of angels and devils. I appreciated how this novel shows how something can be perceived as evil by being different and how it is possible to be born and raised into the hatred of something else just because they are what they are. I quite enjoyed the mythology, the imagery and the structure of this story. Also, Karou is one of the most interesting FMCs I have read in a long time and I loved how badass she was.
This was a 4 star read that has me excited for the other books in this Laini Taylor trilogy, so hopefully I will find them in a bookshop sooner rather than later as I am still reeling from the cliffhanger ending.
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** A guide to ratings **
1 star – did not like it
2 stars – it was okay
3 stars – liked it
4 stars – really liked it
5 stars – it was amazing
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