Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor

Its rare moment when I read a talked about book quite late and It turns out to be as bad as I imagined.

If you judged this book by it's atrociously photo-shopped cover, you did it right, "Daughter of Smoke & Bone" is as bad inside as it's outside

Around the world, black hand prints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.

In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.

And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war.

Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real, she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands", she speaks many languages - not all of them human - and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out.

When beautiful, haunted Akiva fixes fiery eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, 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?

I was close to leaving the book midway. Yup.
Though many critics have praised the pacing. I hated it, the book was sooooo SLOW and seemed way too LONG for a 400 pg book. This book had like 60 ridiculously stretched chapters.
And the relationship of "Mysterious" Karou and "Beautiful, Haunted" Akiva made me PUKE. I could feel no chemistry, just soppy sappy romance at its worst. Star crossed lovers?REALLY?
At least, the author did make an interesting world and put a bit thought into it. I'll give her that.
This book once again had that one best friend you wished would be the protagonist.
That's all I can say about "Daughter of Smoke & Bone" because I might have skimmed the last few pages or so.
WHY DID I READ THIS?

2 STARS

clearly.

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