Exquisitely writeen and beautifully paced. "Taylor again weaves a masterful mix of reality and fantasy with cross-genre appeal. I can hardly wait for the next installment." -John Connolly, author of The Book of Lost Things Taylor has embraced the mythology of angels and reworked it in an extraordinary form, so that by the end of this lyrical, haunting book, I wanted to believe in the existence of these violent, tormented beings. "Daughter of Smoke and Bone is that rare beast: a novel that takes the familiar and makes it appear startling and new. Funny, devastating, delightful, unforgettable. Taylor's writing is a revelation, masterfully blending an intricate fantasy world into our own, with an artist's flair for exquisite details. "Daughter of Smoke and Bone is a lush, sweeping, romantic marvel of a book. A cracker story and a truly entertaining read." "Yes, it is fantasy romance, complete with angels and devils, but Taylor's prose is fresh and sassy enough to blow away any ennui with the genre.
Taylor manages her self-imposed challenge with aplomb." "It's to Taylor's great credit that evil incarnate and its love match in Daughter of Smoke and Bone are such imaginative interpretations and that the worlds in which this romance unfolds are likewise so unique: Telling a tale this apocryphal requires serious outside-the-box plot work to pull off. the world-building descriptions and language stop your heart and then, like a defibrillator, start it up again." "A breath-catching romantic fantasy about destiny, hope and the search for one's true self that doesn't let readers down.
(Seriously, cancel all plans once you begin you won't want to put it down.). (Oct."This smartly plotted, surprising, and fiercely compelling read will hook you from its opening pages. Even nonfantasy lovers will find themselves absorbed by Taylor's masterful, elegant work. Di Bartolo's illustrations provide tantalizing visual preludes to each tale, which are revealed as the stories unfold. Each is, in vividly distinctive fashion, a mesmerizing love story that comes to a satisfying but never predictable conclusion. The stories build in complexity and intensity, culminating in the breathtaking “Hatchling,” which opens with a spectacularly gripping prologue (“Esmé swayed on her feet. She explores the potentially awkward conceit in three dramatically different fantasies, each featuring a young female protagonist out of place in the world she inhabits: contemporary Kizzy, who so yearns to be a normal, popular teenager that she forgets the rules of her Old Country upbringing and is seduced by a goblin in disguise Anamique, living in British colonial India, silenced forever due to a spell cast upon her at birth and Esmé, who at 14 discovers she is host to another-nonhuman-being. Taylor offers a powerful trio of tales, each founded upon the consequences of a kiss.
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