Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
Laini Taylor
Around the world, black hand prints 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 grows dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly 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 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. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?
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0This was an okay read. Didn't like it enough to continue the series.
0Intense. Beautiful. Fantastical.
I couldn't put this down. This was one of those cases where it was so real and not-real that you couldn't help but be drawn in--hungry for more.
I loved the intrigue, the language of emotion, the details that pulled the story together. I was breathless and tense and felt the ups and downs of Karou (and Akiva) so intensely that I was quivering.
I must run out to get the second novel. I feel invested and connected to these characters, and love the way this is playing out!
2021 re-read:
So much of this story came back to me it was like meeting an old friend, which was great because I found that I still liked them, haha. Still beautiful and moving, the writing again I found to be evocative and atmospheric, and I had to remind myself to not binge through the entire thing in a day or two, that I was buddy-reading and should take my time.
This time maybe only a 4.5 star, both because of how it ended (not quite a cliff-hanger, but clearly not the end, have to get the next book asap kind of ending; plus it's all despairing) and because I hadn't realized how insta-love the romance is, for both times. My friends pointed out this is both YA and sort of Fated Mates trope, which I acknowledge but... wanted just a little more.
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