Showing posts with label laini taylor. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Cover reveal: Days of Blood and Starlight (UK Edition)


Days of Blood and Starlight
by Laini Taylor
Series: Daughter of Smoke and Bone #2
Release Date: 8th November, 2012

Official Blurb:

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a new way of living - one without massacres and torn throats and bonfires of the fallen, without revenants or bastard armies or children ripped from their mothers' arms to take their turn in the killing and dying.

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.

This was not that world.


And the UK cover is out! What do I think about it? I like it A LOT. But, do I like it as much as the US cover? I'm not really sure... I think the combination of fire with the deep blue sky making contrast with the stars is really nice and true to the book's name. Specially if you picture the tips of the fire as blood.

The main question, at least for me is, will I buy the US edition or the UK edition? ... ... ... I don't know!!! Oh man, I have the UK edition of Daughter of Smoke and Bone but, but... the US cover for this book is sooooo pretty too!

Sorry but I can not choose, not yet xD What about you, guys? And, just in case you haven't seen it before, this is he US cover.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Book Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone



Daughter of Smoke and Bone

by Laini Taylor
Series: Daughter of Smoke anad Bone #1
Release date: 29th September, 2011
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Pages: 418 (Hardcover bought by me)
Next Book: Unknown (2012)

Summary from Goodreads:

Around the world, black handprints 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 grown 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?