I have recently finished a book called 'The Daughter of Smoke and Bone ". I was a bit sceptical at first when I started reading this, but I remembered the reason why I wanted to read it. I remember reading the Blurb on the back and thinking this sounds a lot like an idea I had for my own book and I wanted to read it, to see if our ideas matched. It was safe to say, that my ideas and the author ideas did not match at all and I could continue the path of writing that.
Daughter of Smoke and Bone, is a fantasy book by Laini Taylor. I am not familiar with her works or even if she has done anything else, or if she is actually a she! The writing sounds like a female and so does the name, so I'll go with it. It is a book about love and war between two types of species from another world. The character Karou, a student in Prague studying art. Everyone thinks she is a normal student, but really she has another secret life, she travels through a door where she really grew up. Creatures that Karou considers her family. She runs errands for her main carer Brimstone. Then one day, a mysterious burnt handprints appear on doors all around the world that connects our world to Brimstone world.
I don't want to go into too much detail on the book, because I want you all to read it for yourself.
This is the first part of a trilogy, which I didn't find out until the end of the book as it had to leave on a bloody cliff hanger!! So I am eagerly waiting for payday, where I can buy the next two instalments. I've found the book a real page turner. The plot and the characters are really good and Laini Taylor provides brilliant description of each characters, that they come alive inside my head. Her description throughout the books can be a good and bad thing, the good thing is making you believe it is happening and you can clearly picture it inside your head. The bad thing, (and this really only depends on your view on romance), is the description Laini Taylor did on the romance between two characters. I am not a fan of Twilight or certain romance novels, so when reading Laini Taylor description of such 'star cross' lovers, I found it dragged on a bit and completely beside the point. Although there was one part of the book, I was in love with it. The rest of time, I was trying hard not to gag on the lovey dovey stuff.
I will let you know when I have completely finished the trilogy, as I am so eager to finish it myself. I want to know what happens at the end! That is why I want to speak highly of the book, but I will when I finally finish it!
Rose.
I don't want to go into too much detail on the book, because I want you all to read it for yourself.
This is the first part of a trilogy, which I didn't find out until the end of the book as it had to leave on a bloody cliff hanger!! So I am eagerly waiting for payday, where I can buy the next two instalments. I've found the book a real page turner. The plot and the characters are really good and Laini Taylor provides brilliant description of each characters, that they come alive inside my head. Her description throughout the books can be a good and bad thing, the good thing is making you believe it is happening and you can clearly picture it inside your head. The bad thing, (and this really only depends on your view on romance), is the description Laini Taylor did on the romance between two characters. I am not a fan of Twilight or certain romance novels, so when reading Laini Taylor description of such 'star cross' lovers, I found it dragged on a bit and completely beside the point. Although there was one part of the book, I was in love with it. The rest of time, I was trying hard not to gag on the lovey dovey stuff.
I will let you know when I have completely finished the trilogy, as I am so eager to finish it myself. I want to know what happens at the end! That is why I want to speak highly of the book, but I will when I finally finish it!
Rose.
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