Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Daughter of Smoke & Bone

By:  Laini Taylor

Book Quote:

"Hope can be a powerful force.  Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic."  

- Chapter 40, p 288

Booktalk:

Library Cat Rating:  😻 😻 😻 
    VERDICT is that this is a must read for any teen fantasy lover.  This is the first fantasy book of 2017 that I absolutely loved and can't wait to get my hands on the second (and third!) novel in the series.

Awards:  

Audie Award for Fantasy (2012), Milwaukee County Teen Book Award Nominee (2013), Children't Choice Book Award Nominee for Teen Choice Book of the Year (2012), The Inky Awards Nominee for Silver Inky (2012), Oregon Spirit Book Award for Young Adult (2011), Lincoln Award Nominee (2014), Andre Norton Award Nominee for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy (2011), Goodreads Choice Award for Nominee for Favorite Book of 2011 and Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2011), Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2014), El Templo de las Mil Puertas Nominee for Mejor novela extranjera perteneciente a saga (2012)

Citation:
Taylor, Laini.  (2011).  Daughter of smoke and bones.  New York, NY:  Little, Brown and Company.

Annotation:
Karou has always lived a life caught between that of the human world and her guardian Brimestone's chimera world.  When Brimestone disappears, Karou will have no choice but seek to uncover the past Brimestone has kept hidden from her in order to save him.  

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Extras:
Get to know Laini Taylor in the interview following the publication of her latest novel in 2017, Strange the Dreamer.

Laini Taylor talks about her start as a teenage writer.