There are angels and monsters, seraphim and chimaera, but the latter and former classifications do not match as exactly as one might assume. There is also friendship, horror, betrayal, war and family bonds.

Yes there is paranormal, and yes there is romance. It would be easy to dismiss these books as just more paranormal romance, and that would be a mistake. With a day off this week, I finally had chance to pick up book 2 and I didn’t emerge until I reached the last page of the final installment. I received the first book at Christmas and immediately ordered the next two, but by the time they had arrived I had already moved on in my To Be Read mountain and put them aside for a treat when I had the time. As she is thrust into the middle of an age-old war between two races from another world, she must decide where her allegiances lie, what she can do about it, and how her natural enemy could feel like her only hope for a future. ‘Karou’ means ‘hope’ and Karou must learn the limitations of wishes and the magic of hope the hardest way possible. Then the angels came and brought the fire, and nothing was the same again. With DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE, DAYS OF BLOOD AND STARLIGHT and DREAMS OF GODS AND MONSTERS in one place you won’t have to be ‘tearing at your hair and gnashing your teeth waiting for the next installment’ (Stephenie Meyer) – step into a world of gods and monsters and be prepared for love, violence and magic aplenty.īookshine’s Blurb: Once upon a time a girl was raised by monsters in a workshop of wishes and teeth. But her already extraordinary life is pushed into new realms when the door between Earth and Elsewhere begins to close and Karou is thrust into a war that could change both worlds forever. Amazon blurb: Karou is a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague, but she has a second life working as the errand-girl to the creature Brimstone from Elsewhere: a world of gods, chimaeras and seraphims.

Daughter of smoke