Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I wish I could give this 3.5 stars. I liked it too much to give it three, but not quite enough for four. So I'm rounding up.

I loved the first 2/3 of this book. The story of Karou, her life with the chimaera, her meeting with Akiva, were all very good. I didn't need allllll of the information about Madrigal, though. I think that part could have been greatly trimmed down yet still give us the information we needed. I honestly don't know why I would read the next book, as there's nothing more I feel I need to know.

As my friend, Cyndy mentioned in her review, this isn't really a YA book. It feels like the main character was shoehorned into being a 17 year old, when there was NOTHING in her life that fit that of a typical 17 year old. She lived on her own, traveled around the world on errands for Brimstone, and was in the equivalent of a fine-arts college program. It was like the publisher or someone said, "Hey, YA is hot now! Let's make the heroine a teen!" and nothing else about her was changed.



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