Y todo era tan descriptivo (ojo, nada vulgar) que lo visualizaba a la perfección, y no fue una visión bonita. The news that catches Zuzana's and Mik's attention is revealed to be about a phantom girl who has been stealing teeth from the wildlife dioramas of museums around the world.

The war with the chimera is supposed to be over, but the angel armies are still out there murdering any chimera they can find, even if they are peaceful and harmless. Zuzana and Mik are chatting while a news reporter interviews Kazimir Andrasko about Karou, known to the world as "the Girl on the Bridge. The second in Laini Taylor's SMOKE AND BONE TRILOGY is another beautifully written novel with incredible imagery that displays a stunning imagination. That is until Akiva confesses to killing the only family that she had ever known while mourning for her, which includes Brimstone, Issa, Twiga, and Yasri, who raised and protected her for her entire life. Once, the lovers lay entwined in the moon’s secret temple and dreamed of a world that was a like a jewel-box without a jewel—a paradise waiting for them to find it and fill it with their happiness.A major character death is well handled and I particularly liked a scene involving a break in to the emperor's bedroom.

I read Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor last weekend (sequel to Daughter of Smoke and Bone) and I'm all fired up about it.Gracias a ellos pudimos ver que las quimeras no son malas, es sólo que tienen un líder muy perverso.

If Daughter of Smoke and Bone was a dream, a mirage, a masterpiece of writing and phrases and words, overlapped and edited and fine-tuned to create a perfection of romance, snark, and pulsating chemistry, all tinged with a palpable undertone of bittersweet, Days of Blood and Starlight is like a hard slap, the cold splash of water, and the startled opening of ones eyes into the bleak, war-ridden, fragile, and bloody reality of life. I gave Daughter of Smoke and Bone 5 Stars, just as I did Days of Blood and Starlight, but in reality, this novel deserves 500 Stars. Sigh*I think it’s safe to say that my ship hit an iceberg in this book but I’m hoping things get fixed between Karou and Akiva in the final book. But the villagers aren't the only things under the aqueduct, as the eight seraphim have the misfortune to find out. Both Daughter of Smoke and Bone and Days of Blood and Starlight unfold in a sequence of events driven by fate, by destiny, and not entirely by choice, much like our own lives.This is often the downfall of sequels; we know it, we want to move forward, and although this one didn't completely fall prey of such stalled sequels, it does take quite a while to get the ball rolling. Razgut, the fallen angel who held onto Izîl's back, found his way to Eretz and tells the seraphim that Karou is with the chimaera and practicing the art of resurrection. You know how, at the end of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet wakes up in the crypt and Romeo’s already dead? I also wrote LIPS TOUCH: THREE TIMES, which was a National Book Award finalist, and the DREAMDARK books.