Daughter of Smoke and Bone captures its readers interest with an orphan girl named Karou, whose cheating ex-boyfriend tries to win her back by posing nude in her life drawing class. As if this wasn't enough of a jolt, Karou's adoptive family is chimaera -- mythical creatures from various animals parts -- making Karou's background even more of a blurr. Is she ... human?
A lot of information was thrown into the book: portals to different worlds, an instalove relationship, a war between angels and demons, dentistry, magical power to fly, past lives... Every time I figured out where the story was going, Laini Taylor would shake her finger at me, and twist the plot the other way around.
Perhaps now that the characters are set, Days of Blood and Starlight (book2), will be easier to follow.
I liked Daughter of Smoke & Bone but didn't LOVE it, as I had hoped I would I finally got around to Days of Blood and Starlight and just couldn't get into it. =/
ReplyDeleteOh no :( Maybe I'll wait a bit before diving into the second then.
DeleteI attempted to read it when it first came out and gave up, like within the first chapter. I want to give it another try (especially since my reading tastes have changed a lot since then) but I don't know, the more I think about it and read reviews on how great it is, I don't want to. :( Hope you enjoy the second more (when/if, you get to it.) :)
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Thank Kirsty-Marie :) I always try not to get my expectations high when I see too many good reviews. Hence why I let time slip by before I pick it up.
DeleteI actually really liked this one. Read it translated to swedish though.
ReplyDeleteOh, I'd love to see the cover of that version ;)
DeleteIt's the same ;) But I love that because this cover is just gorgeous!
DeleteOh, I love this one. Sorry it was kind of confusing for you! If you read the next one, I hope it works better for you!
ReplyDeleteThanks ablightedone :) I truly hope it does.
DeleteI love this one, mainly because Karou-Akiva's relationship. Oh, and Laini's beautiful, unique prose too. I guess because it's a fantasy book and it's the first one in the series, you felt like there were too much informations thrown :)
ReplyDeleteThe prose was pretty, mainly the reason why I gave it 3 stars.
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