Daughter of Smoke and Bone
First edition cover
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| Author | Laini Taylor |
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Daniela Lombard : girl,(Lea Bernstein pseudonym via Arcangel Images)Model: Place Models Hamburg: Amber Alison Impey: montage design with mask |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Daughter of Smoke and Bone |
| Genre | Fantasy, romance, young adult fiction |
| Publisher | Hachette Book Group |
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Publication date
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27 September 2011 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 418 |
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| Followed by | Days of Blood and Starlight |
Daniela Lombard : girl,(Lea Bernstein pseudonym via Arcangel Images)Model: Place Models Hamburg: Amber
Daughter of Smoke and Bone is a fantasy novel written by Laini Taylor. It was published in September 2011 by Hachette Book Group, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company. The story follows Karou, a seventeen-year-old Prague art student. Karou was raised by chimaera, or creatures that have attributes of different animals and humans. The chimaera she lives with demand teeth in exchange for wishes and send Karou to fetch these teeth for them. In the beginning, Karou has yet to discover what the teeth are eventually used for and why there are rules such as "no baby teeth" and "no rotting". While on one of these missions, Karou finds a seraph named Akiva who finds something familiar in her. Daughter of Smoke and Bone received extremely high reviews from critics such as Chelsey Philpot from The New York Times, and Universal Pictures has acquired the rights for a film adaptation.
Daughter of Smoke and Bone is the first in a planned trilogy. The second book, Days of Blood and Starlight, was released on 6 November 2012. The third and final book, Dreams of Gods and Monsters, was released on 8 April 2014.
Karou, a 17-year-old art student living in Prague, goes about her daily life attending classes and hanging out with her best friend Zuzana, while simultaneously trying to evade her ex-boyfriend Kazimir. It is soon revealed, however, that Karou was raised by four chimaera living in a workshop on a trans-dimensional plane between the human world and Eretz, from where the chimaera originate. The workshop is owned by Brimstone, who is her father figure.
While with Zuzana, Karou is summoned by Brimstone to do a job, which requires her to collect teeth - both of human and animal origin - from her world and bring them to him. He uses the teeth for unspecified purposes and pays Karou in physical trinkets which she uses to perform wishes. Karou, having grown weary of her job, which usually includes dealings with illegal dealers and graverobbers, reluctantly departs. When she returns to the workshop via portal doors that connects to all parts of the world, she finds the door scorched with a black handmark.
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