The book's final pages seemingly establish the triumph of true love%E2%80%94until a horrifying revelation sets the stage for a second book.
When black handprints begin appearing on doorways throughout the world, Karou is swept into the ancient deadly rivalry between devils and angels and gradually, painfully, acquires her longed-for self-knowledge. a sensation akin to having forgotten something?" Taylor interlaces cleverly droll depictions of contemporary teenage life with equally believable portrayals of terrifying otherworldly beings. Be transformed by the story of seventeen-year-old art student Karou as she navigates through a fantastical war between angels and demons. Mysterious as Karou seems to her friends, her life is equally mysterious to her: How did she come to live with chimaera? Why does paternal Brimstone eternally require teeth%E2%80%94especially human ones? And why is she "plagued by the notion that she wasn't whole. Exquisitely written and beautifully paced, the tale is set in ghostly, romantic Prague, where 17-year-old Karou is an art student%E2%80%94except when she is called "home" to do errands for the family of loving, albeit inhuman, creatures who raised her.
National Book Award finalist Taylor (Lips Touch: Three Times) again weaves a masterful mix of reality and fantasy with cross-genre appeal. Laini Taylor Ali Smith Just as she did in her story collection, Lips Touch: Three Times, Taylor who, like her protagonist, is an artist with an unnatural hair color, bright pink tackles. Laini Taylor is the New York Times bestselling author of the Printz Honor Book Strange the Dreamer and its sequel, Muse of Nightmares.Taylor is also the author of the global sensation the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy and the companion novella Night of Cake & Puppets.
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