Daughter of Smoke and Bone
discover the evocative and expertly-crafted fantasy romance series
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Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war. This was not that world.
'REMARKABLE AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN' GUARDIAN
'MESEMERISING' MARIE CLAIRE
Errand requiring immediate attention. Come.
The note was on vellum, pierced by the talons of the almost-crow that delivered it. Karou read the message. 'He never says please', she sighed, but she gathered up her things.
When Brimstone called, she always came.
In general, Karou has managed to keep her two lives in balance. On the one hand, she's a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague; on the other, errand-girl to a monstrous creature who is the closest thing she has to family. Raised half in our world, half in 'Elsewhere', she has never understood Brimstone's dark work - buying teeth from hunters and murderers - nor how she came into his keeping. She is a secret even to herself, plagued by the sensation that she isn't whole.
Karou must choose between the safety of her human life and the dangers of a war-ravaged world that may hold the answers she has always sought.
'THE WORLD-BUILDING DESCRIPTIONS AND LANGUAGE STOP YOUR HEART AND THEN, LIKE A DEFIBRILLATOR, START IT UP AGAIN' NEW YORK TIMES
'WOW. I WISH I HAD WRITTEN THIS BOOK' PATRICK ROTHFUSS
PRAISE FOR LAINI TAYLOR
'Imaginative, spell binding, captivating and heart breaking. This is what books should be' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Truly a thing of literary beauty' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'I was literally shouting "WHAT!? I want more!!!". I can't believe it ended that way' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Absolutely endearing, the whole thing' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'The story was really well constructed...I mean really. The prose was practically perfect' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
National Book Award finalist Taylor (Lips Touch: Three Times) again weaves a masterful mix of reality and fantasy with cross-genre appeal. Exquisitely written and beautifully paced, the tale is set in ghostly, romantic Prague, where 17-year-old Karou is an art student except when she is called "home" to do errands for the family of loving, albeit inhuman, creatures who raised her. Mysterious as Karou seems to her friends, her life is equally mysterious to her: How did she come to live with chimaera? Why does paternal Brimstone eternally require teeth especially human ones? And why is she "plagued by the notion that she wasn't whole.... a sensation akin to having forgotten something?" Taylor interlaces cleverly droll depictions of contemporary teenage life with equally believable portrayals of terrifying otherworldly beings. When black handprints begin appearing on doorways throughout the world, Karou is swept into the ancient deadly rivalry between devils and angels and gradually, painfully, acquires her longed-for self-knowledge. The book's final pages seemingly establish the triumph of true love until a horrifying revelation sets the stage for a second book. Ages 15 up.
