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Days of Blood & Starlight

Pages
528
Published
2012
Language
English

Synopsis

An art student and monster's apprentice must decide how far she'll go to avenge her people in this riveting sequel to the mesmerizing, acclaimed book Daughter of Smoke & Bone by National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor. Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war. This is not that world. Art student and monster's apprentice Karou finally has the answers she has always sought. She knows who she is—and what she is. But with this knowledge comes another truth she would give anything to undo: She loved the enemy and he betrayed her, and a world suffered for it. In this stunning sequel to the highly acclaimed Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Karou must decide how far she'll go to avenge her people. Filled with heartbreak and beauty, secrets and impossible choices, Days of Blood & Starlight finds Karou and Akiva on opposing sides as an age-old war stirs back to life. While Karou and her allies build a monstrous army in a land of dust and starlight, Akiva wages a different sort of battle: a battle for redemption. For hope. But can any hope be salvaged from the ashes of their broken dream?

About the author

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Laini Taylor

Laini Taylor is an American young adult fantasy author best known for the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy and the Strange the Dreamer duology, for which she was a Michael L. Printz Honor recipient. She is also a National Book Award finalist for Young People's Literature. Taylor grew up in California and Europe as a U.S. military child and earned an English degree from UC Berkeley. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, illustrator Jim Di Bartolo, and their daughter.

Characters

KarouProtagonist
All characters in Days of Blood & Starlight
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