The Girl Who Takes Out The Trash

Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Avg rating: 4.31

Goodreads Summary:
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 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 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. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself? 

Actual Rating: 3.5

Okay so this book definitely deserved that extra .5 over the 3 star rating.. I didn't hate it but I definitely didn't love it.

I am starting to draw the fine line between what I do and do not like about Fantasy novels. The line really comes down to the type of characters in the novel. In this book, there was too much fantasy that I had a hard time wrapping my head around it.

I liked the main character Karou in the beginning but I started to lose interest in her fast. I actually like her human best friend Zusannah more than I like her!

Anyways... when we finally met Akiva I was too confused about who he was and where he came from (what relm, what time, what story?) to even think of him as a love interest for Karou.

The book didn't flow very well and I kept loosing track and having to re-read parts because of all the "fantasy-made-up" words.
By the end of the book I was happy to have some answers but didn't care enough to think it was a cliff-hanger.. I probably won't be reading the next one.

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