Daughter of Smoke and Bone

Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Not to be confused with Shadow and Bone of Netflix trend. I really enjoyed this (more adult side of YA) YA story. The plot had me guessing where it was going continuously. There are flashbacks and different points of view and right in the middle it seemed like a vertitable vortex of literary puzzle pieces as p.o.v. and time and space shifted constantly. But it all works, and tells a pretty great love story at the same time. There is plenty to mine in this new world that Taylor built that overlaps ours, and she builds it slowly so that tedious passages of world building don't interfere with flow, yet the reader also doesn't have to slog through incomprehensibility trying to piece it together themselves, either. This is probably the greatest strength of the novel. And the world she builds is as rich as any myth (also love her multiple creation myths that highlight the different philosophies of the various species).

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When you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.