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Plus the worldbuilding kicked up several notches in book and just went on until the absolutely mindblowing book 2.

There were more important things to think about like, oh I don’t know, the ending of the world? I even started feeling the romance because that was reined in. And Kaoru, well, she’s not the Katniss kinda heroine but she has her own strength and she comes into her own in a big way in book 2. Because Taylor had established the feels in the first book, the characters were free to move on and deal with the fall out that inevitably occurs when Kaoru makes certain discoveries the angel fella is not so forthcoming about.

So reasons you will like this book are many but before we go on let me say this: the first book nearly turned me off the other two simply because I am not a fan of the mush and this one was romance-heavy in the first installment but since I had already bought book 2 and had no choice but to read it, I did.

Because angels with flaming wings (or not) are about as fantastical as you can get not to mention the chimaera with their weird body parts.

*cough* Or, on a slightly less polemic note, you prefer your books to be more realistic and not fantastical. If you haven’t heard about this trilogy, you probably haven’t been reading the right kind of YA novels. Let’s do list-style because I find that the funnest way to do things. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself? When beautiful, haunted Akiva fixes fiery eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real, she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious “errands”, she speaks many languages – not all of them human – and her bright blue hair actuallygrows out of her head that color.

In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grows dangerously low.Īnd in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.

Published by Little Brown Books for Young ReadersĪround the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.