3.5/5 stars. 
 I loved the first 50% of Daughter of Smoke & Bone, which was original, inventive and featured a feisty heroine with plenty of bravery and gumption. But I wasn't as keen on the last 50%, when our heroine - Karou - lost a great deal of the personality which had endeared her to me as it became buried under the "transcendental Romeo and Juliet" plot strand. Shame. 
 Overall, my experience of the book was ok, and I will read the next books in the trilogy, although I'll wait and get them from the library rather than buy them.