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Review: Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Daughter of Smoke & Bone Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I'm late to the bandwagon but here it is: my review for Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor!

First thing I noticed was that the main "motive" or "conflict" if you will, is quite the same as the one in the comic books Saga, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples. The conflict being that the main characters are from opposite races which are consequently at war with eachother, thus rendering their love "forbidden". (view spoiler) Further research on this topic reveals that the first issue of Saga was published March 1st 2012, whereas Daughter of Smoke and Bone was published September 27th 2011. So it looks like Laini Taylor wins this round!

Anyway so yeah, it was decent. I never really felt anything much while reading Daughter of Smoke and Bone. There weren't really any twists, or at least book memorable ones. As for the romance, I really don't know how I felt on it. I don't wanna say anything more on that as to not influence anyone who hasn't read this yet. The world and characters were interesting at least.

I feel like the world was developed pretty well, which is usually the whole point of first books in high fantasy books anyway. The characters were decently developed as well, I think I knew the main two characters pretty well, but not really anyone else as well as I did them. I could find myself relating to our artistic blue haired protagonist, Karou, and I liked the little side plots with her friend and school, and just teenager things.

Why do I never really enjoy first books in awesome series??? Whyyy meee!?
At least I hope the next two books are going to be awesome...


All of my Daughter of Smoke and Bone Reviews:
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3

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