Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Jan 22, 2012 Nikki the Sapphired Book Dragon AKA NixieNut rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: rpg-game, 2017-reads, ammp-team-scottie-dog, tower-teams-v, ammp-team-thimble, july17-reads

Even on my second time reading this book I still adored it. It's one of those books you can get completely lost in, in the story, the characters, the imagery. Laini Taylor has a way with words that is just magical and spoils you for any other books. This book is just exquisite. Thankfully this time round, unlike the first time I have books 2 and 3 ready to go so guess what I will be reading next. :-) ...more

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Aug 17, 2013 Jen • Just One More Page rated it it was amazing

Shelves: owned, romantasy, fantasy, urban-fantasy, young-adult, magic, female-non-male-authors, romance, paranormal, series-to-finish

This review is also posted on my blog.

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Dec 25, 2022 Emily rated it it was amazing

Shelves: genre-paranormal, title-d, characters-a, cover-blue, demons, cover-woman, tattoos, author-l, genre-fantasy, genre-romance

Karou is a young woman living in two worlds, one she is an aspiring artist and the other she is running errands for Brimstone. Karou begins to notice black handprints on the hidden doors she uses for transportation, but she does not have a clue everything she thought she knew is about to take a horrible turn. Secrets are revealed, a connection with a man who should be her enemy is undeniable. Will Karou find the answers she is looking for?

This was terrific, the story had me sitting and turning t ...more

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Feb 11, 2012 J.P. rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy

This is one of the few books I've read that I liked the beginning more than the rest. It goes off like a skyrocket at the start: you've got your heroine, portals, conflict, drama and a guy with a very strange occupation. Then in the middle of the book in strolls a love interest and our protagonist gets all glassy-eyed and the pace slows down from overdrive to first gear. Then at the end we get a lot of backstory of a seemingly inconsequential character and the focus of the story doesn't return t ...more

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Mar 31, 2012 Andrea Lujano rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 5-estrellas, juvenil-paranormal, angeles, autor-favorito, trilogia, bellas-portadas, 2013, magia

Llevaba días sin engancharme con un libro. Este libro me encanto, me enamoro, hizo que enterneciera en varias escenas y que confirmara que si EXISTEN protagonistas guerreras y diferentes a las típicas chicas que se desfallecen por la situaciones fuertes.

LO RECOMIENDO.

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Jan 07, 2013 Athena Macmillan rated it really liked it

Shelves: ya-fiction, romance, war, urban-fantasy, pleasantly-surprised, action-packed, mystery, fantastic-writing, appealing-characters, exceeded-expectations

I am really enjoying this author's writing style. Even though she is writing for Young Adults, she does not dumb down the plot or overly simplify any of the issues at hand. Yes, it does feature the dreaded 'insta-love' but not in such a way that you feel like gagging yourself with your own fingers, or in any way that detracts from the lyrical writing or mysterious plot.

It does at times read a bit like a diatribe against colonialism, which would make it an excellent book for high school English c ...more

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Nov 23, 2013 Megan rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2013-electric-lime, read-in-2013, 2013-what-countries-have-i-visited, angels-and-demons

The beginning of this book was slow going for me, but once I was about a quarter of the way in I was hooked.

When I realized what the story was about I didn't think I was going to like it, I don't really care for angel and demon stories, but I was very surprised to find that I did enjoy it!

The characters are interesting and unique. The ideas in the story are so different from anything else I've ever read, which was so refreshing.

Just a heads up, there are a few swear words (view spoiler) ...more

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Jan 06, 2012 Elle rated it it was amazing

Shelves: ya-fiction, fantasy, 5-star-reads

I really enjoyed the spin on the whole good vs. evil thing with this novel. It's kind of a twisted tooth fairy tale. The characters are really interesting and crazy imaginative. I was NOT a fan of the ending. Don't get me wrong, it's really written well, but I NEED to read the second one RIGHT NOW and I have other books on the list first. It's totally killing me to wait. ...more

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Sep 30, 2011 Talyah rated it liked it

Shelves: gave-up-on-series, own, read-in-2012, young-adult

The writing was great! The only thing that bothered me was (view spoiler).

Too Fairy Tale for me. I want gritty, despairing, heartbreaking, bloody, gory, reality...when it comes to the L word. Like Graceling, & Bitterblue(My Favorite when it comes to the love portion :) It just wasn't w ...more

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Jan 25, 2012 Jessie Marie rated it it was amazing

Originally posted on The Daily Bookmark

5+ / 5 stars

Daughter of Smoke and Bone is about an angel. It's about a demon. It's about chimaera. It's about teeth. It's about star-crossed love of the most tragic kind. It's about art. And travel. And memories. And family. It's about knowing who you are and who you used to be. And it is my (so far) favorite read of 2012 because it is so much more than I could ever hope to describe.

Laini Taylor was born to write. Some people can develop the talent. Some pe Originally posted on The Daily Bookmark

5+ / 5 stars

Daughter of Smoke and Bone is about an angel. It's about a demon. It's about chimaera. It's about teeth. It's about star-crossed love of the most tragic kind. It's about art. And travel. And memories. And family. It's about knowing who you are and who you used to be. And it is my (so far) favorite read of 2012 because it is so much more than I could ever hope to describe.

Laini Taylor was born to write. Some people can develop the talent. Some people are born with the ability but Taylor was born to write. Her prose is so beautiful and almost poetic. Almost every line is quotable and invokes such feeling and emotion that it's hard to feel it all. Her imagination is endless and unmatched. To have an imagination like that and the ability to put it to paper is like magic in and of itself.

The characters were so great. I wish I had words other than great and awesome to describe it all but that's how it goes. Karou is essentially who I wish I was. She's full of secrets. She's extraordinary, artistic, sarcastic and making statements without really trying to. She's lovable and extremely likable. Akiva is everything I might have imagined (and hoped for) in an angel. He's strong, irresistible, mysterious, gorgeous, eyes of fire. The two of them are magic itself, though all the beauty is bound to stir up tragedy.

The plot is fast-paced and full of emotion and heartache. There are twists and turns galore yet none of it is predictable because the concept is too unique, too original. Connections are made that you would never expect, literary bombs dropped when you wish they wouldn't and that ever-present looming cloud of destruction.

I can't talk about the plot here because it's kind of spoilery. You wonder why the blurb is so cryptic? That's why. You cannot know anything going into reading Daughter of Smoke and Bone because to know anything is to know everything.

The ending is a tiny cliffhanger of an ending but not in the extreme. It leaves readers desperate for more of the story but not in such a way that the wait for the next installment proves unbearable. And it is a beautiful ending, both jaw dropping and tear inducing.

If you haven't read Daughter of Smoke and Bone, go read it now. Forget about books for review or that book that came out this week. I strongly believe readers across the globe should read this. It's too good to let pass you by.

Laini Taylor, thank you. You're one hell of a writer and I CANNOT WAIT for Days of Blood and Starlight. ...more

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Jun 23, 2013 Almeta rated it really liked it

Shelves: in-a-land-far-far-away

I believe this series would appeal best to teenagers. The young blue haired, tattooed protagonist is a non-conformist, who loves her unconventional family. She switches between two realms, never guessing that there are even more worlds to which she must adjust.

I enjoyed the premise and had a difficult time in having to choose sides.

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