She creates a perfect balance of imaginative language and sensory details so people and places come alive, but it avoids turning into purple prose. After having read Strange the Dreamer years before and now Daughter of Smoke and Bone, I can see that Taylor is a descriptive, atmospheric writer, and that’s a style I enjoy. In terms of positives, I fell in love with the writing. But there are other things that totally miss the mark. Not in a truly angry sense, but more in a sense of feeling let down as the novel does some things well. Upon finishing this book, the best way I can sum up my feelings was frustration. Together, they will uncover the answers they seek. While on the war path, he runs into Karou, which reignites a once-deadened flame. In the meantime, angel solider Akiva is preparing to strike back against some ancient enemies. Then one day, hand prints are burned into the portals connecting Karou to the human world and her chimera family, cutting her off. While her benefactor, Brimstone, sends her around the globe searching for teeth to refill his magical workshop’s coffers, Karou struggles with her place in a world where she doesn’t feel she belongs.
Karou herself isn’t even aware of where she came from as the only family she has known is a quartet of chimera (human-beast hybrids). She truly is an enigma with naturally blue hair, sundry tattoos, and mysterious origins. Plot-wise, we are introduced to Karou, an art student living in Prague, Czech Republic. But in the end, while there were aspects of this novel I enjoyed, it ended up confirming my inherent misgivings.ĭaughter of Smoke and Bone, by Laini Taylor, is the first novel in a trilogy of the same name. I finally decided to give it a try just to settle my curiosity. But there were some obvious negatives for me such as teen drama and a star-crossed lovers plot that focused more on lust than love. (So long ago, in fact, that the book still had its original cover sporting a blue-feathered mask as opposed to this updated version, which I think makes more sense and is a better fit for the story.) On one hand, it sounded like an atmospheric read with interesting world-building, two things that appeal to me as a reader. One such book is this novel, and I had debated over perusing it for quite some time. There are some books I have gone back and forth on, trying to decide whether or not they’re worth reading.
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