Loved itthere's a very heavy necromancy plot within this war between these two and the ways in which one side of that war tries to like basically reincarnate soldiers so heavy on the necromancy love it
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Daughter of Smoke and Bone (2001)
Others: Mostly positive Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.
- ISBN:
- 9780316459181
- Length:
- 448 pages
Genres: fantasy, young adult
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Loved itDaughter of Smoke and Bone I'm going to put at the top of good this is another one I feel like I should reread cuz I love Lany Taylor Laney Taylor has lots of angst lots of melodrama in terms of her romance but she also has a beautiful writing style
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MixedDaughter of Smoke & Bone I will put in good tier. Laini Taylor is someone who like I wish I could love her stories, but they always just kind of fall either somewhere lower.
Loved itI think it's just a fantastic great series just a classic why a series that deserves the hype that it has
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Loved itI love kuru and Akiva so much their romance and their story just really hit me in the heartstrings
Not a fanoverall for the majority of this book I did not like the romance and at its core at least for book one I don't know what the rest of the series is like but this is essentially a romance novel so given that I didn't like the romance it was very difficult for me to get into this book
Loved itI read the first second and third book all this year and i'm going to include this as one because i just love this whole series i'm not sure if I could pick a favorite book it would either be the second or the third one but I just really loved this whole series
Loved itthis book was so interesting and so different to me this book is just like crazy like this crazy fantasy world that lonie Taylor is a genius
Loved itI did not expect that series to be so good, but it's intense and the characters are awesome and there's a lot of plot twists and cliffhangers and stuff.
Loved itone of the reasons why I love this book is because of how unique the character the main character is her name is Karu and she is a girl who is very different than everyone else that she goes to school with. it's an awesome book I'm so excited for the series to continue and it was amazing the romance the fantasy everything combined made it such a good book