My Reaction in a Nutshell: 
 Instant love and cliche romance rules again. 
 The Long version: 
 This is a book that I had been debating reading for months and months. Some people had posted quotes that sounded interesting, but overall the book's synopsis didn't sound super intriguing to me. Over break when I saw this book in library I thought, Why not give it a shot? And so I did. 
 There were many times during this book that I almost DNF reading Daughter of Smoke and Bone, but there was just enough intrigue to keep me involved. The ending surprised me and almost bumped it up a star (and made me consider reading the sequel), but I decided that due to my general boredom while reading this book that it really didn't merit the upgrade. 
 It wasn't a terrible book, and I can see why some people would enjoy Daughter of Smoke and Bone: it had instant love, secrets, being drawn to a person's soul, falling in love with the enemy, secrets, identity crisis, betrayal, mystery, and, oh, more secrets. But it just wasn't the type of book that I enjoy. 
 If you like angst, secrets, tons of flashback scenes ((view spoiler)[basically the last third of the book is all flashback scenes (hide spoiler)], instant love, and falling for the enemy, then this is the perfect book for you. 
 ***TRIGGER WARNINGS: mentions of human trafficking, slavery, tooth extraction, stalking, murder, death, depictions of unwanted advances (courting, dating), end of chapter 17 could be triggering to SA survivors (not sexual in nature (view spoiler)[ naked man straddles girl and pins her wrists demanding "Who are you?" (hide spoiler)] but the attack could still be triggering), chapter 55 mentions of R