**edited 12/20/13 
 Daughter of Smoke and Bone is as haunting and evocative as its title. The writing is as lyrical and mysterious and beautiful as the book's cover, and the story is creative and original, opening a curtain to provide a glimpse of a rich and textured world. This promises to be a fantastic trilogy, especially for any reader interested in paranormal romance. If I weren't so badly prejudiced against certain types romance, this would probably be a five. 
 Angels have been seen again on the earth: beautiful seraphs with burning wings and haunted eyes have been glimpsed throughout the globe, leaving behind only a cryptic clues to their real aims: a series of burnt handprints on an apparently arbitrary set of doorways. Despite her own strange origins, the seventeen-year-old Karou is as mystified as everyone else. Karou has grown up under the care of chimaera: strange, monstrous creatures that combine the forms of human and animal who live in hiding. Karou acts as one of their human agents, gathering their strange crop from earth: teeth. Brimstone, a chimera sorcerer, transforms the teeth into the magic of wishes. Karou is content to balance her strange role with the mundanities of student life and the simple enjoyment of good friendship. But the coming of the seraphs, cold-eyed and cold-hearted angelic beings, will irrevocably alter Karou's world. We are drawn into a mystical world where magic is fueled by pain, where angels and revenants fight an unending war, where true love can withstand even death. 
 ...And that's all I'm going to post here. 
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