[REVIEW] Daughter of Smoke and Bone Series by Laini Taylor

Summary: 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 otherworldly 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?

The books in order are: Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Days of Blood and Starlight, Dreams of Gods and Monsters.

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Rating: ★★★★½

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General Thoughts: Daughter of Smoke and Bone was truly amazing. It was the series that kickstarted me back into reading basically every day again and restarted my passion for YA. It's a very enjoyable series that will get you totally absorbed for days.

Plot: The plot was very wild and intriguing. The first book starts off in Prague but then we get transported all over the world and then mostly in whole other kingdoms in the later books. At a few points, it was difficult to follow and some things didn't seem to make sense but everything would then fit together and you would have many aha! moments. I loved all the twists and turns.

Writing: Laini Taylor's writing is AMAZING. Like, wow. I have no words to express how perfect it was. As well, the worldbuilding was so well done and intricate and compelling. In the third book, things dragged occasionally because it was so long, but not as much in the other books.

Characters and Romance: I love every single one of the characters, both main and supporting. Karou was so awesome and I want to be her, and I also adored Akiva, Zuzana, Mik, Liraz, Eliza,

 and everyone else. Except for that evil chief guy and Kaz (not from Six of Crows, lol). 

The romance was really well done as well. Akiva and Karou had a ton of chemistry, and I also loved Zuzana and Mik together. I grew to like Liraz and Ziri by the end, too.

Diversity: DoSaB actually had quite a lot of diversity, most notably Liraz being asexual which I haven't seen before in mainstream YA. Akiva and his whole family are POCs as well. Eliza in the third book is an amazing WOC.

Do I Recommend?: Yes, if you're into high fantasy! :)