Brief synopsis (no spoilers): 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?
Category: YA
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?
Category: YA
Why I chose this book: Recommended to me, saw several good reviews
My personal opinion (the review): I almost put this book down after the opening scene, but decided to keep going. The story started to get a bit more interesting after that, only to loose me again a bit later. I think part of the reason I kept going was because I was listening to it as an audiobook and I really liked the narrator. However, even that wasn't enough to keep going when the story got even more weird (an invisible creature biting the neck of two characters...). It just wasn't worth the time to read/listen.
Warnings (language, violence, "adult" situations, death, etc.) - Nudity, "Devils", a business that sells (human and animal) teeth, occasional language
Movie rating equivalent: PG-13 (for the part I read so far)
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