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 ROTHFUSSPRAISE 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' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
