Daughter of Smoke and Bone
On sale
29th September 2011
Price: £8.99
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war. This was not that world.
‘REMARKABLE AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN’ GUARDIAN
‘MESEMERISING’ MARIE CLAIRE
She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil’s lair.
She wasn’t innocent now . . .
Around the world, black handprints 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 an art student named Karou wanders the tangled lanes of Prague, plagued by the sensation that she isn’t whole.
When one of the strangers – beautiful, haunted Akiva – fixes his fire-coloured eyes on Karou, she is swept away into a deadly war. Soon she must choose between the safety of her ordinary life and a dangerous world that holds the answers she has always sought . . .
Star-crossed love, dangerous secrets, and deadly worlds collide in this sweeping fantasy adventure by a New York Times bestselling author.
‘THE WORLD-BUILDING DESCRIPTIONS AND LANGUAGE STOP YOUR HEART AND THEN, LIKE A DEFIBRILLATOR, START IT UP AGAIN’ NEW YORK TIMES
‘WOW. I WISH I HAD WRITTEN THIS BOOK’ PATRICK ROTHFUSS
PRAISE FOR LAINI TAYLOR
‘Imaginative, spell binding, captivating and heart breaking. This is what books should be’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Truly a thing of literary beauty’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘I was literally shouting “WHAT!? I want more!!!”. I can’t believe it ended that way‘ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Absolutely endearing, the whole thing‘ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘The story was really well constructed…I mean really. The prose was practically perfect‘ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘REMARKABLE AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN’ GUARDIAN
‘MESEMERISING’ MARIE CLAIRE
She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil’s lair.
She wasn’t innocent now . . .
Around the world, black handprints 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 an art student named Karou wanders the tangled lanes of Prague, plagued by the sensation that she isn’t whole.
When one of the strangers – beautiful, haunted Akiva – fixes his fire-coloured eyes on Karou, she is swept away into a deadly war. Soon she must choose between the safety of her ordinary life and a dangerous world that holds the answers she has always sought . . .
Star-crossed love, dangerous secrets, and deadly worlds collide in this sweeping fantasy adventure by a New York Times bestselling author.
‘THE WORLD-BUILDING DESCRIPTIONS AND LANGUAGE STOP YOUR HEART AND THEN, LIKE A DEFIBRILLATOR, START IT UP AGAIN’ NEW YORK TIMES
‘WOW. I WISH I HAD WRITTEN THIS BOOK’ PATRICK ROTHFUSS
PRAISE FOR LAINI TAYLOR
‘Imaginative, spell binding, captivating and heart breaking. This is what books should be’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Truly a thing of literary beauty’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘I was literally shouting “WHAT!? I want more!!!”. I can’t believe it ended that way‘ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Absolutely endearing, the whole thing‘ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘The story was really well constructed…I mean really. The prose was practically perfect‘ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Reviews
A beautifully written novel, reminiscent of Neil Gaiman . . . It is a wonderfully realised world, with fantastic but completely believable characters . . . It is sure to be a huge, and deserved, success.
A mesmerising novel on an epic scale.
Big things are expected of this, the first in a new fantasy trilogy, and we can see why . . . Imaginative and sexy, we couldn't put this down.
DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE is that rare beast: a novel that takes the familiar and makes it appear startling and new. Taylor has embraced the mythology of angels and reworked it in an extraordinary form, so that by the end of this lyrical, haunting book, I wanted to believe in the existence of these violent, tormented beings. I can hardly wait for the next installment.
For once the frenzy over a teen novel is justified. DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE by Laini Taylor is one of those books that blots out reality, so consumed do you become in its fantasy world of chimeras and angels . . . inevitably there is an epic romance but Taylor is a talented writer; this is aeons apart from the usual angels and werewolves dross.
It's the first in a trilogy and I can't wait for the next instalment.
'Laini Taylor pushes the boundaries of realism as she weaves in an age-old (fairytale?) story of the war between angels and demons with the world of today. Extremely gripping with the right dose of romance thrown in, this one is an out and out page turner.'
Laini Taylor's imagination is vivid.
Mesmerising
Northern Lights and Pan's Labyrinth in one.
Remarkable and beautifully written . . . The opening volume of a truly original trilogy
The world-building descriptions and language stop your heart and then, like a defibrillator, start it up again
Thrillingly fresh and new. The smartly plotted, surprising, and fiercely compelling read will hook you from its opening pages. (Seriously, cancel all plans once you begin; you won't want to put it down.)
Trust us, it's brilliant
WOW. I wish I had written this book
You don't want this book to end . . . it's cancelling-weekend-plans, stay-up-all-night-addictive.
You'll be mesmirised by the twists and turns of the first in this new trilogy.
A mesmerising read
Daughter of Smoke and Bone is that rare beast: a novel that takes the familiar and makes it appear startling and new. Taylor has embraced the mythology of angels and reworked it in an extraordinary form, so that by the end of this lyrical, haunting book, I wanted to believe in the existence of these violent, tormented beings. I can hardly wait for the next installment
Daughter of Smoke and Bone is a lush, sweeping, romantic marvel of a book. Taylor's writing is a revelation, masterfully blending an intricate fantasy world into our own, with an artist's flair for exquisite details. Funny, devastating, delightful, unforgettable. Pure storytelling perfection
Thrillingly fresh and new
