Rereading daughter of smoke and bone
Series: Daughter of smoke and bone #1
Genre: Fantasy
Original publication date: September 2011
Book description: 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 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?
Thoughts:
Interesting country, not something you see very often.
I have huge mixed feelings!
Dimension traveling, creatures that are interesting the magic system feels very unique, the characters try to be interesting witty and charming. But I do not like the instant love. Kaoru this time around felt a bit annoying and most of all the insta devotion we see from Akira I found extremely unrealistic. Even after it was "explained" it is still instalove!!! Whichever way you look at it.
I remember loving this book and devouring it.
But this time around it did not feel as captured by the world or characters. It might be that I have read many different books now and this was one of the first books I picked up when I tried to start reading fantasy for real.
Also, the constant jumping from a time sequence to the next, memories, huge time jumps without any warning. I personally do not like that very much. It connected very well with the present story, I mean it was well planned but I get a bit annoyed by that writing style, that is totally a personal preference.
I still love Suzane, she is the world's best and most comprehensive friend, she accepts Kaoru in such totality that you just wish to have a friend like that in your life!
Weird that I felt so much less for this book this second time around. I do not hate it but it was just an ok read which in comparison to my memory feels like a letdown.
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