Book Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone

Genre: YA Fantasy Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

So many people in the book community talk about rereading comfort books, and up until recently I couldn’t relate. However, I found myself having a difficult time getting through any book on my TBR shelf, so I decided to reread one of my all time favorite books, Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor, and it was just as wonderful as the first time I read it!

The novel follows Karou, a girl who lives a mysterious life in Prague. She is a talented artist who sketches stunning drawings of monsters, and when her acquaintances ask her about them, she claims they are real. Little do they know, she was raised by the very monsters she draws. When angels come to Earth and start burning the portals to the world of Karou’s family, she is desperate to do anything to stop them.

Laini Taylor is an absolute genius! The originality of this story is simply mind-blowing, and I think it has become so popular in recent years that we often take this uniqueness for granted. Similarly, Taylor’s writing is both vivid and lyrical. So many of her sentences paint such a clear picture in the reader’s mind, and I’ve yet to find another author who does this quite the way she does. Her words flow like a poem, and I could get lost in the beauty of her writing.

My favorite quote from the book was and remains, “Wished are false. Hope is True. Hope makes it’s own magic.” If that doesn’t take your breath away, then I don’t know what will!

I’ll keep my review short and sweet. If you haven’t read this life-changing book yet, then you need to abandon all of your responsibilities to do so immediately!