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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.
This was an amazing book; I couldn't put it down. The atmosphere was perfect and the characters were real and heartbreaking. I especially liked Szusana (sp?) who was very funny but also a fiercely loyal friend. At the end I was sad and happy at the same time. I can't wait for the next installment. ( )
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. ( )
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.
So you are a child of love. It seems right, that you were made by love.
There was almost always something to take delight in, if you were trying. But this was different. It couldn't be contained. She sometimes imagined it streaming out of her like light.
Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.
Hope is the real magic, child.
You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own kindness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.
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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