Daughter of Smoke and Bone - Laini Taylor

Karou lives a double life. On the one hand she is a seventeen year old art student in Prague, only concerned about fending off her ex-boyfriend. On the other, she runs errands for Brimstone, a decidedly non-human being who raised her. Then one day, she meets an angel... This is the premise of Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone. It does get a lot more complex than that, but this is an adequate summary for the purpose of this review. From the outside, Daughter of Smoke and Bone is an attractive book. Of course we shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but lets face it, we all do to an ... more

About the book The Daughter of Smoke and Bone is the first book in a series by Laini Taylor. It was published by Hodder and Stoughton on 29th September 2011. The book is 432 pages long. Plot 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 colour. 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-coloured ... more