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Showing posts with label Daughter of Smoke and Bone urban fantasy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daughter of Smoke and Bone urban fantasy. Show all posts

Saturday, November 21, 2015

A quickie review: Laini Taylor's DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE


Laini Taylor's writing is incredibly lush. Her descriptions of Prague make me want to book a flight there tonight. Just gorgeous writing. I also like the inventive and original mythology surrounding the wishes and the teeth. It feels like she's stumbled across an old legend found in a crumbling crypt somewhere. Excellent characters too, and the relationship between Karue and her best friend feels real. I have some quibbles about the plot--it seems like all Karue has to do is "wish" for things and she "levels up," and that cover? Looks like it's a romance set in Venice or something. But still, I liked this book enough to want to track down other books she's read. This was a refreshingly different urban fantasy.