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Author Taylor's Book Reviews

Daughter of Smoke & Bone
This is a story about a girl named Karou and her struggle to understand who and what she really is. Karou is a young art student who lives in Prague. Her hair is blue, she has some strange tattoos on her palms and she has no memories of her past. She does't have a family or some other human relatives. Her friend Zuzana and an ex-boyfriend, Kazimir or Kaz, are her only relations in this world. Her true family lives in an underground world and she goes...
Daughter of Smoke and Bone
This story is about a young 17 year old girl living two lives, one human and one not. Its about her struggle in both, and a destiny she doesn't know she has and its a romance. The book opens in the the streets of Prague where we meet a young 17 year old art student named Karou, waiting for her drawing class to start. Other than her blue hair and oddly tattooed hands, Karou seems to be an ordinary 17 year old girl. She lives in her own apartment and has...
Days of Blood & Starlight
The story is about Karou, a young girl trapped between two worlds, who seeks revenge for her people, the chimeras. Karou was an art student in Prague. She knew she was not exactly human but she enjoyed her life and her friends Zuzana, Mik and even her ex-boyfriend Kazimir. One day her entire world collapsed. Her true underground family, the chimeras, were brutally killed by Akiva and his army and the entire world was destroyed. She found out that she was...
Dreams of Gods & Monsters
The story is about two naive creatures, an angel and a chimera, who dream of peace and try to stop a thousand year old war. Eliza Jones seems like a very normal young woman. She works as a researcher in an important museum and she shares an apartment with one of her colleagues. Her normalcy stops here though. Since she was just a little girl, Eliza was tormented by horrible nightmares. In fact, she had a pacemaker installed in her chest so that she woul...