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Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke and Bone) (original 2011; edition 2011)

by Laini Taylor

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Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.
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Title:Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke and Bone)
Authors:Laini Taylor
Info:Little, Brown and Company (2011), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 432 pages
Collections:Favorites, Read but unowned
Rating:****1/2
Tags:don't own, 2013CC, read 2013, Intro to Author

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Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor (2011)

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Great read! It was somewhat of an slow start and that is why it got a 4 out of 5 star, but once in - I just couldnt put the book down. Looking forward to book 2 and 3. ( )
  mybookloveobsession | Mar 12, 2024 |
Wow. This was incredibly good. Moving onto the next one and really, really happy that the last book in the trilogy is due shortly. ( )
  jazzbird61 | Feb 29, 2024 |
Oops, I forgot I finished this a couple days ago.

Um... I thought for a while that they were going the "omg reincarnated lovers!!!" route and was prepared to be grossed out. I'm glad there was an (ever so slightly) better explanation.

There was a lot I liked and was very much into, and a lot I didn't like and wasn't into. RJ's review pretty much sums up my feelings.

The ending... wow, it was like a punch in the stomach. By that time, they were my favorite characters.

There were just so many ups and downs and likes and dislikes to this one. I'm not sorry I read it, and it's a step up from most YA lit I've read/skimmed recently, but it's far from perfect. ( )
  caedocyon | Feb 23, 2024 |
I would actually probably give this three and a half stars. The writing was well done and I liked the story, but I'm not sure I like it enough to continue with the series. I'm not invested in the characters and their future. It's just ok. ( )
  Woodardja | Jan 30, 2024 |
Its alright. Nothing to get all excited about. ( )
  Megan_Demers | Jan 27, 2024 |
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Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Taylor, Lainiprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Hvam, KhristineNarratormain authorsome editionsconfirmed
Audio, HachettePublishersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Bernstein, LeaPhotographersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Caplan, DaveCover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Impey, AllisonDesignersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kevic Djurdjevic, JelenaCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Santen, Gert vanTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed

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Epigraph
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.
Dedication
For Jane, for a whole new world of possibilities
First words
Walking to school over the snow-muffled cobbles, Karou had no sinister premonitions about the day.
Quotations
Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.
She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maidens at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox's tongue. She tastes like hope.
Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes it own magic.
If it's not chocolate, it's not breakfast.
Evanescence was not, in itself, a grim fate. It was the way of things, to be unmade; it happened in natural death, every day.
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Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.

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Karou leads double
life: art student and errand
girl for wishmonger.
(passion4reading)
A fantastic tale
of teeth exchanged for wishes
and forbidden love.
(passion4reading)

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