Description:
Around the world, black handprints 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 grown dangerously low.
And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly 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 one of the strangers–beautiful, haunted Akiva–fixes his fire-colored 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?
My Review:
This book took me a long time to get through. I was intrigued enough to keep reading it but I found it a bit too long (420 pages) to keep me riveted.
I love the characters and the mystery of the story – trying to figure out Karou’s beginnings and her true identity was enough to make me want to read and I love the twist at the end (no spoilers). Taylor does an excellent job of creating completely alternate reality and world. BUT at times I really found the book a bit slow.
So an interesting read but not something that left me dying for more. At this stage I have no desire to read any more books in the series.
