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Daughter of Smoke & Bone
- Subgenre
- romantasy
- Edition year
- 2011-09-27
- Rating
- ★ 4.0 · 567 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
- Spice
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Karou, a young art student in Prague with naturally blue hair, fills sketchbooks with monsters and speaks many languages, not all of them human. She runs mysterious errands from a dark shop where a devil's supply of human teeth runs dangerously low. Across the world, winged strangers scorch black handprints onto doorways after slipping through a slit in the sky. In an alley in Marrakesh, Karou meets Akiva, a beautiful, haunted figure with fire-colored eyes. Their encounter unleashes blood and starlight, long-buried secrets, and a star-crossed romance rooted in a violent past. Caught up in a brutal otherworldly war, Karou must uncover who she truly is and decide whether the truth about herself is worth the cost.
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- Forbidden Love: “a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past” source
- Hidden Identity: “Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out.” source
- Strong Heroine: “she speaks many languages—not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color.” source
- Angst: “the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?” source
- Tortured Hero: “beautiful, haunted Akiva” source
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