The top 10 books i've read this (last) year: #4
#4 Daughter Of Smoke And Bone by Laini Taylor
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 grows dangerously low.
And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly 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 one of the strangers-beautiful, haunted Akiva-fixes his fire-colored 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 don't think there's anyone left for me to recommend this to, is there? I feel like i've recced it to everyone. This was one of the first books i read last year and ite STILL stuck in my head now. That's how good it was. I'd never read anything like it before (and i hope i never will -except for its sequels- it deserves to stand alone in this genre). I'm in 2 minds about whether i want them to make a film of this. One one hand- YES I GET TO SEE IT COME TO LIFE. and, on the other, they might ruin it :(
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 grows dangerously low.
And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly 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 one of the strangers-beautiful, haunted Akiva-fixes his fire-colored 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 don't think there's anyone left for me to recommend this to, is there? I feel like i've recced it to everyone. This was one of the first books i read last year and ite STILL stuck in my head now. That's how good it was. I'd never read anything like it before (and i hope i never will -except for its sequels- it deserves to stand alone in this genre). I'm in 2 minds about whether i want them to make a film of this. One one hand- YES I GET TO SEE IT COME TO LIFE. and, on the other, they might ruin it :(