Karou has discovered that the monsters she worked for were actually chimerae, and their world is locked in a constant battle against the seraphim. Still, though, Daughter of Smoke and Bone is a 5-star book for me.īook 2 (spoilers start here!): Book 2, Days of Blood and Starlight, starts off exactly where Book 1 ends. I don’t know if it’s how teens actually talk to each other (I don’t think it is) or if it’s how an adult thinks they do, but either way it’s cringeworthy, particularly in Books 1 and 2. My one quibble with this book (with the whole series, actually), is the way Karou and her friend Zuzana talk to each other. This is just such an exciting, fast-paced book, with this delicious feeling of promise that the best is yet to come. Rereading it now, I was so pleased to realize it’s just as enthralling the second time around. I was enthralled by the world that Laini Taylor invented and savored every magical detail. The first time I read Daughter of Smoke and Bone several years ago, I was transfixed. As the story picks up, their connection deepens just as the rest of her world begins to change irrevocably.
Even though he’s an enemy, she finds that she’s drawn to him in some inexplicable way.
Akiva, a seraph, attacks her while she’s out on an errand for Brimstone. The handprints are appearing all over, but she doesn’t realize their significance until she meets Akiva. One day she notices the burned handprints on the doors. He occasionally will give her some small wishes, which she uses to learn languages, dye her hair, give herself tattoos, and exact petty revenges on her ex’s new girlfriend. She doesn’t know what he uses the teeth for, exactly, but she does know he can make wishes from them. Brimstone and his cohorts (various other monsters) raised Karou, and she now does his bidding by traveling the world, collecting teeth (?!) from various sellers, and bringing them to Brimstone, who lives behind a magicked door that can appear on any building he wants it to. She has a best friend, Zuzana, an annoying ex-boyfriend named Kaz, and a double life, wherein she works for a monster named Brimstone. So if you don’t want to read spoilers, you can stop reading after Book 1.īook 1: Daughter of Smoke and Bone is the story of Karou, an art student living in Prague.
I’m going to write this review as though it’s three separate reviews, because I can’t figure out how to review Books 2 and 3 in this series without completely spoiling Book 1.
0 kommentar(er)
