Daughter of Smoke and Bone By Laini Taylor
Category: Fantasy
Brace yourself. Secrets are going to unfurl like bombs in the last half of this book. Working up to that is the mysterious life of Karou. Soaking up Prague through her sketchbook, eating goulash with her best friend Zuzana, hunting down teeth for a creature from another world. Wait, whaaaaaat? While one part of Karou’s life is brilliant, naturally growing vivid blue hair and school work, the other is secretly running errands for the only family she has ever known, a collection of creatures known as chimaera. Chimaera, cratures of animal and human parts combined, are Karou’s people. And while Karou keeps her chimaera business a secret from her human world, the chimaera keep secrets from Karou. She is only allowed to fetch teeth for the powerful and wise Brimstone. Brimstone, in turn, weaves those teeth into magic. What of the chimaera world? What the magic is used for? How did Karou came to be with the troupe of four other worldly creatures since infancy? Karou feels like she’s missing some very important puzzle pieces to her life, and all that shifts into something more dangerous when black, hand-shaped burns start to appear on the doors the link Karou to her chimaera world...
Eloquently written, beautifully described, this story was magical. Karou’s tale wove many questions and worked me into a frenzy to discover the answers. The last half of the book went off with many surprises and turns. There was love, loyalty, war, friendship, fantasy, suspense, mystery, disappointment, hope. Always hope. For all the decisions Karou faced, she make her choices respectively. In one case of obtaining the power of flight, enviably. If I had to step inside the world of a book to experience the wonder of such bizarre creatures and rampant magic, this place would be my first choice. You think you have certain characters pegged after a particular point, only to actually get a grasp on them much later on. It was not until the final few pages that it was largely revealed what some people truly were. To say who or what I mean would be a spoiler, so I’ll let you uncover these things for yourself. I am eagerly anticipating reading the sequel, Days Of Blood And Starlight!
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