Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy – serie

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 Errand requiring immediate attention. Come.The note was on vellum, pierced by the talons of the almost-crow that delivered it. Karou read the message. 'He never says please', she sighed, but she gathered up her things.When Brimstone called, she always came.In general, Karou has managed to keep her two lives in balance. On the one hand, she's a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague; on the other, errand-girl to a monstrous creature who is the closest thing she has to family. Raised half in our world, half in 'Elsewhere', she has never understood Brimstone's dark work - buying teeth from hunters and murderers - nor how she came into his keeping. She is a secret even to herself, plagued by the sensation that she isn't whole. Karou must choose between the safety of her human life and the dangers of a war-ravaged world that may hold the answers she has always sought.'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' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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.'ONE OF THOSE SERIES THAT WILL HAVE YOU TEARING AT YOUR HAIR AND GNASHING YOUR TEETH WAITING FOR THE NEXT INSTALMENT' STEPHANIE MEYER'PLUNGES US INTO A WORLD OF BEAUTY AND HORROR' DAILY MAILArt student and monster's apprentice Karou finally has the answers she has always sought. She knows who she is - and what she is. But with this knowledge comes another truth she would give anything to undo: She loved the enemy and he betrayed her, and a world suffered for it.While Karou and her allies build a monstrous army in a land of dust and starlight, Akiva wages a different sort of battle: a battle for redemption. For hope. But can any hope be salvaged from the ashes of their broken dream?In this stunning sequel to the highly acclaimed Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Karou and Akiva find themselves on opposing sides as an age-old war stirs back to life.PRAISE FOR LAINI TAYLOR'She has a way with words that is just magical' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A fabulous read; there's never a dull moment' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Please please PLEASE do yourself a favour, young or old and read these books' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Laini's writing is as magical, mouthwatering, imaginative, and wildly wonderful as always' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Spellbinding and engaging to a degree I've rarely experienced in YA' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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.'A GRIPPING PAGE-TURNER' MARIE CLAIRE'THRILLING' GLAMOURCommon enemy, common cause.By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz.When Jael's brutal seraph army trespasses into the human world, the unthinkable becomes essential, and Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat. 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. And, perhaps, for themselves..But there are bigger threats than Jael in the offing. A vicious queen is hunting Akiva, and, in the skies of Eretz, something is happening. Massive stains are spreading like bruises from horizon to horizon; the great winged storm hunters are gathering as if summoned, ceaselessly circling, and a deep sense of wrong pervades the world.What power can bruise the sky?From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in this thrilling finale to Laini Taylor's acclaimed trilogy. PRAISE FOR LAINI TAYLOR 'I was utterly captivated' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Laini Taylor has easily become one of my favourite authors' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'It's damn near perfect!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'The problem now is...What can I read next that will come anywhere close to these amazing books' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'The prose sung between lyrical and whimsical but was always evocative and strangely beautiful' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐