Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Although we also visit Paris, Marrakesh, and a variety of other well-known locations, Daughter of Smoke and Bones largely takes us on a tour through Prague. We feel as though we have been transported to a different location despite the fact that this is our reality and isn’t very spectacular or glamorous compared to what we see every day when we look out of our windows. She shapes these places around us with words that make them feel both enchanted and tangibly present as if we could reach out and touch the crumbling stone of historic structures.
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
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Karou is a young person who exists on the cusp of two worlds, being a part of both whiles yet being a part of neither. In reality, she is a remarkably gifted artist who studies at a private high school in Prague. Recently, a boy who didn’t deserve her crushed her heart in this world. She was born in a filthy shop that was accessible from mystical portals all around the planet and was home to monsters, not the earth we are familiar with. The monsters she refers to as family are actually chimaera, which are hybrids of humans and animals with noble and gentle hearts. She works as an errand runner and an adopted daughter in this world.
For her foster father Brimstone, she gathers strange items and magical ingredients from the “real world”. The answers to Karou’s past can be found in that shabby shop, along with a secret entrance to a universe beyond anything you can conceive.
War is both the start and the finish of her story. Karou, a girl who lives in two worlds, is compelled to join the conflict when an old feud between the chimaera and their adversaries, the angels, spills over into our own. She is drawn into the conflict out of a desire to protect the people she loves. The narrative that follows will move, astound, and take your breath away.
This series truly caught my attention. The tale really captures and retains your interest, and the writing is superb. I was wandering through the pages of Daughter of Smoke and Bone, caught in a sense of innocent awe. It has the feel of a grim fairy tale. like a dream that is hardly remembered and just before awakening. Each page is carefully designed like a work of art, charming and thought-provoking, and the author’s voice is one of whimsy and wisdom. I saw that I was restraining myself from reading more quickly in order to prolong the story.
