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DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE BY LAINI TAYLOR

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Age Group: Young Adult
Pages: 417
Source: Bought
Buy this book: Amazon

Synopsis (from Goodreads): Around the world, black hand prints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. 

In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grows dangerously low.

And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war. 

Meet Karou. 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 actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out.

When one of the strangers—beautiful, haunted Akiva—fixes his fire-colored 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. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?

This book was huge breath of fresh air. It came with a lot of recommendations and I am not surprised now that I've become one of the lucky of have read it. Laini Taylor is a master storyteller wielding the pen so artfully that it is heartbreaking. There are many scenes of such beauty, layered upon one another it had my head spinning in a good way. To say that i enjoyed this book would be the understatement of the century, I LOVED it!!

Blue haired protagonist Karou is a multifaceted character with an air of mystery around her that she herself does not understand. You embark on her personal journey with her and at once you are invested and sucked into her world. There is something special about her. She knows it and so does the reader and so begins the excitement to figure out the answers to the questions that surround her. Why does she collect teeth? What are they for? All the answers come to a shocking end that had me running to the store for the second book.

Location, location, location! Exotic locals such as Prague, Marrakech and many others are a huge part of the delight of the book. As an avid traveler this was a fun part of the book for me. You travel without having traveled. So vividly were these places described that I felt as though I had walked the streets myself.

Daughter of Smoke and Bone was such a beautiful book I could not get enough of it. Those who have not read it should really give it a try. You will not disappointed.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

FROM ME TO YOU, HAPPY HOLIDAYS<3

FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS

It is once again that time of the year and the holidays season has begun. This also means the run down of the Twelve Days of Christmas. These posts are festive in nature but also book related which is the most fun! I love this time of the year, with all the lights, Rudolf and his red nose and eggnog lattes (yum). Now lets get to this years topic and it is... Unforgettable Character Names. This list is in no particular order however I do love all the names on this list. They made it because they are unique, well suited to their characters and of course "Unforgettable". So enjoy and let the fun begin:)

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1 Artemis Fowl from Artemis Fowl series

2 Bruce Wayne from Batman

3 The Hobbits (Frodo Baggins, Samwise 'Sam' Gamgee, Peregrin 'Pippin' Took & Meriadoc 'Merry' Brandybuck) from Lord of the Rings

4 Elphaba Thropp from Wicked (The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)

5 Oompa Loompas from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

6 Liselotte (Liesl) Vitzliputzli from Fifth Business

7 Severus Snape from Harry Potter series

8 Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird

9 Tinker Bell from Peter Pan

10 Septimus Heap from Septimus Heap series

11 Scarlet O'Hara from Gone With The Wind

12 Philip Pirrip from Great Expectations

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We have come to the end of the list and number one is not a widely known character. However anyone who has read this series will agree that Artemis Fowl is a very rare anti-hero lead who is as dynamic and memorable as his name. I hope everyone has enjoyed these posts as much as I enjoy making them. See you guys in 2013!!

SECOND DAY OF CHRISTMAS

(Christian Bale as 'Bruce Wayne' in Dark Knight series)

It is once again that time of the year and the holidays season has begun. This also means the run down of the Twelve Days of Christmas. These posts are festive in nature but also book related which is the most fun! I love this time of the year, with all the lights, Rudolf and his red nose and eggnog lattes (yum). Now lets get to this years topic and it is... Unforgettable Character Names. This list is in no particular order however I do love all the names on this list. They made it because they are unique, well suited to their characters and of course "Unforgettable". So enjoy and let the fun begin:)

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2 Bruce Wayne from Batman

3 The Hobbits (Frodo Baggins, Samwise 'Sam' Gamgee, Peregrin 'Pippin' Took & Meriadoc 'Merry' Brandybuck) from Lord of the Rings

4 Elphaba Thropp from Wicked (The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)

5 Oompa Loompas from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

6 Liselotte (Liesl) Vitzliputzli from Fifth Business

7 Severus Snape from Harry Potter series

8 Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird

9 Tinker Bell from Peter Pan

10 Septimus Heap from Septimus Heap series

11 Scarlet O'Hara from Gone With The Wind

12 Philip Pirrip from Great Expectations

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So common yet simple, powerful and memorable!

THIRD DAY OF CHRISTMAS

(Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd in 'Lord of the Rings')

It is once again that time of the year and the holidays season has begun. This also means the run down of the Twelve Days of Christmas. These posts are festive in nature but also book related which is the most fun! I love this time of the year, with all the lights, Rudolf and his red nose and eggnog lattes (yum). Now lets get to this years topic and it is... Unforgettable Character Names. This list is in no particular order however I do love all the names on this list. They made it because they are unique, well suited to their characters and of course "Unforgettable". So enjoy and let the fun begin:)

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3 The Hobbits (Frodo Baggins, Samwise 'Sam' Gamgee, Peregrin 'Pippin' Took & Meriadoc 'Merry' Brandybuck) from Lord of the Rings

4 Elphaba Thropp from Wicked (The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)

5 Oompa Loompas from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

6 Liselotte (Liesl) Vitzliputzli from Fifth Business

7 Severus Snape from Harry Potter series

8 Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird

9 Tinker Bell from Peter Pan

10 Septimus Heap from Septimus Heap series

11 Scarlet O'Hara from Gone With The Wind

12 Philip Pirrip from Great Expectations

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I must have seen this film series a million times and I never tire of them. Tolkien had an extensive imagination building a world the we all fell in love with and characters as rare and unique as their names.

FOURTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS

(Idina Menzel as 'Elphaba' in Wicked)

It is once again that time of the year and the holidays season has begun. This also means the run down of the Twelve Days of Christmas. These posts are festive in nature but also book related which is the most fun! I love this time of the year, with all the lights, Rudolf and his red nose and eggnog lattes (yum). Now lets get to this years topic and it is... Unforgettable Character Names. This list is in no particular order however I do love all the names on this list. They made it because they are unique, well suited to their characters and of course "Unforgettable". So enjoy and let the fun begin:)

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4 Elphaba Thropp from Wicked (The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)

5 Oompa Loompas from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

6 Liselotte (Liesl) Vitzliputzli from Fifth Business

7 Severus Snape from Harry Potter series

8 Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird

9 Tinker Bell from Peter Pan

10 Septimus Heap from Septimus Heap series

11 Scarlet O'Hara from Gone With The Wind

12 Philip Pirrip from Great Expectations

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Elphaba Thropp is the main character in Gregory Maguire novel The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. Initially I loved the name and then I heard how Maguire came up with it at which point I fell in love with it even more. (Maguire formulated the name "Elphaba" out of L. Frank Baum's name, taking the phonetic pronunciation of his initials: hence, L.F.B became El-pha-ba).