Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

Laini Taylor

Dreams of Gods and Monsters

"What power can bruise the sky?"

"Two worlds are poised on the brink of a vicious war. By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera's rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her."

"When the brutal angel emperor brings his army to the human world, Karou and Akiva are finally reunited--not in love, but in tentative alliance against their common enemy. It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people. And, perhaps, for themselves."

"But with even bigger threats on the horizon, are Karou and Akiva strong enough to stand among the gods and monsters?"

Days of Blood and Starlight
"Art student and monster's apprentice Karou finally has the answers she has always sought. She knows who she is -- and what she is. But with this knowledge comes another truth she would give anything to undo: She loved the enemy and he betrayed her, and a world suffered for it."

"In this stunning sequel to the highly acclaimed Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Karou must decide how far she'll go to avenge her people. Filled with heartbreak and beauty, secrets and impossible choices, Days of Blood & Starlight finds Karou and Akiva on opposing sides as an age-old war stirs back to  life."

"While Karou and her allies build a monstrous army in a land of dust and starlight, Akiva wages a different sort of battle: a battle for redemption. For hope. But can any hope be salvages from the ashes of their broken dream?"



Daughter of Smoke and Bone
"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 grow dangerously low."

"And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war."

"Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbook 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?"

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Rainbow Rowell

               Rainbow Rowell

FaNGIRL 

"Cath is a Simon Snow fan."

"Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan . . ."

"But for Cath, being a fan is her life — and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving."

"Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fanfiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere."

"Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to."

"Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fanfiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone."

"For Cath, the question is: Can she do this?"

"Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories?"

"And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?"

eleanor & park

“Bono met his wife in high school,” Park says.

“So did Jerry Lee Lewis,” Eleanor answers.

“I’m not kidding,” he says.

“You should be,” she says, “we’re 16.”

“What about Romeo and Juliet?”

“Shallow, confused, then dead.”

“I love you,” Park says.

“Wherefore art thou,” Eleanor answers.

“I’m not kidding,” he says.

“You should be.”

"Set over the course of one school year in 1986, Eleanor & Park is the story of two star-crossed misfits – smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you’ll remember your own first love – and just how hard it pulled you under.

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