![]() ![]() Karou has spent her childhood watching him barter for teeth and, eventually, being sent to collect them herself, but she has no idea why. She’s grown up in the shop of a monster, a part human, part many-other-animals chimaera named Brimstone who mainly deals in human teeth. She lives in Prague and has no idea what her background is. You don’t really need to know a lot about the plot – and, really, it’s probably a more enjoyable read if you can just be surprised by how everything plays out – but I will tell you that it’s blue-haired, art student Karou’s story. daughter of smoke and bone by laini taylor It’s a full-on other species, angels, collections of human teeth, flying/cursed beings fantasy. It’s just that good.It’s not only so good that I forgive it for being a trilogy (really? can NOTHING stand alone anymore?), I’m actually happy there is more to come.Īnd, this isn’t borderline fantasy. Which means that I’m admitting that I was wrong and I loved Daughter of Smoke and Bone, just like everyone else I know. So, that was a big strike right there for me.Īnd then, also, other-world fantasy is. ![]() Part of my hesitancy was that I read Lips Touch Three Times a couple of years when it was a National Book Award Finalist and I did not particularly care for it. I read one gushing review after another and my copy from BEA just sat under my bedside table. That was Daughter of Smoke and Bone for me. You know how sometimes everyone is raving about a book and you just feel certain you won’t really like it? ![]()
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