It’s even more amazing when an author manages to pull this off twice! Laini Taylor did just that in her Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy. It’s pretty amazing when an author sets up a world, peoples it with interesting characters and then, in the sequel, makes that world so much bigger that you feel like you’ve entered an entirely new story.
The New York Times bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy comes to a stunning conclusion as – from the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond – humans, chimaera, and seraphim strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.
And, perhaps, for themselves.īut with even bigger threats on the horizon, are Karou and Akiva strong enough to stand among the gods and monsters? It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people. When the brutal angel emperor brings his army to the human world, Karou and Akiva are finally reunited – not in love, but in a tentative alliance against their common enemy. By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera’s rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. Two worlds are poised on the brink of a vicious war. Opening line: Once upon a time, an angel and a devil pressed their hands to their hearts and started the apocalypse. Warnings for gushing and spoilers for Daughter of Smoke and Bone and Days of Blood and Starlight! I am completely biased, I am rooting for the characters, I love the world… so any flaws this book may have (and I’m sure it does) just didn’t matter because Laini Taylor has woven her magic around me and I am happily oblivious. It took me two tries to appreciate this story of Chimaera and Seraphim but now that I’m into it, I know I can’t judge this book properly. At this point, there is no way I can be considered unbiased anymore.
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