I've read so many raves about Laini Taylor and the Daughter of Smoke and Bone per se. Hence, the insurmountable urge to read this the moment I marked this up on my to-reads. Grabbed this on my kindle a week ago, (a week where I have to abstain myself from everything recreational but study!) but have to muster so much (so much!) effort to just restrain myself from reading this. So proud of myself! 
 Anyhow, the book is great and superb! The writing is exceptional and superfluous, not in the way that is overdone but is more than enough to relay great pleasure in the course. Over the course of my reading career, I decided I get to enjoy more on the third-point-of-views stories, which this book holds and it's really a great plus for me! The story is vividly moving and intensely affecting. Due to the world and the innovative imagery that Laini conjured, it made the plot the more succumbing and wondrous. Karou may not have clicked on me at first, but as the story progresses, her character gradually builds up on me. I liked her. The most riveting thing about this book is how it teaches me how true is magic in the form of hope. You really don't have to believe in magic, but believing in hope makes magic exist. Like how good books usually have effects on me are, I bawled, of course. As in reaaally bawled. LOL. With that being said, if you're not going to read this, you'll miss so much big in living out your reading career.