Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Please welcome our newest reviewer, Lyndsey! Lyndsey brings us our first review of the year for Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor. 

Can mortal enemies fall in love- during a war?

Daughter of Smoke and Bone is about a girl named Karou raised by “monsters” called chimaera. Chimaera are the opposite of the angels, the other inhabitants of this world. Chimaera are usually a mixture of two or more creatures-such as a gazelle/bat/human. Karou was raised from an infant in the “lair” or house of one of the most powerful chimaera in the worlds- Brimstone (the tooth collecter). For years Karou had lived with him in the house (which is halfway between the chimaera world and our world) and she lived a normal life. Well there was one thing that wasn’t normal in her life- the teeth. Whenever Brimstone needed teeth delivered he sent her to get them for him- not exactly the most normal odd-job! These errands were pretty hard to hide because she was an art student in Prague and more often than not they were in places like France, San Francisco, and sometimes Canada! So one day she was in the Jemaa el-Fna (a marketplace in Morocco) and she spotted an angel and well it was love at first fight.

Meanwhile, all  around the world, black hand prints were appearing burned on doors-and only the doors that are used as portals to transport teeth to Brimstone. This may have been allarming to Karou and Brimstone especially  when all of the doors mysteriously burst into flame and Karou is left to fend for herself Karou feels even more frightened and feels the need to find her family. In order to find them and make sure that Brimstone and the few chimaera that she knows (or knew) are safe-she needs to find out who she is, and why she was brought up in the care of Brimstone and not human parents. Karou can’t do all of this alone though, and may need to seek help from the chimaera’s enemy- Akiva- the angel that she saw in the Jemaa el-Fna.

This book is a great read if you love supernatural romances  that are impossible to put down most of the time! I know that I couldn’t put it down at all!

~Lyndsey