{"id":17674,"date":"2011-08-12T17:23:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T07:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=17674"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:51:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T23:51:04","slug":"daughter-of-smoke-and-bone-by-laini-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2011\/08\/12\/daughter-of-smoke-and-bone-by-laini-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/daughter-of-smoke-and-bone\/prod9781444722635.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17675\" title=\"Click here for more details or to buy ....\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/9781444722635.jpg?w=196\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><strong>Following in the footsteps of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/j-k-rowling\/author107.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Harry Potter<\/em><\/a> and <em>Twilight<\/em>, we are delighted to introduce what we think will be the next phenomenon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Featuring necklaces made of wishes; an underground shop dealing in teeth; magical tattoos; a wishbone on a cord, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/daughter-of-smoke-and-bone\/prod9781444722635.html\" target=\"_blank\">DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE<\/a> is a thrilling story about Karou and her secret life as an apprentice to a wishmonger.<\/p>\n<p>Karou manages to keep her two lives in balance. On the one hand, she is a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague; on the other, errand-girl to an inhuman creature who deals in wishes and is the closest thing she has to family. Her life is surrounded by mysteries she is desperate to unveil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/daughter-of-smoke-and-bone\/prod9781444722635.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Daughter of Smoke and Bone<\/em><\/a> is a book unbounded by genre but located at a magical crossroads where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-passage\/prod9780752883304.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Passage<\/em><\/a> meets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/philip-pullman\/author218.html\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Pullman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/stephenie-meyer\/author4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Twilight<\/em><\/a> meets Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Laini Taylor is the author of three previous books, the most recent of which, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/lips-touch-three-times\/prod9780545055857.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lips Touch: Three Times<\/em><\/a>, was a silver medal finalist for the 2009 National Book Award. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, illustrator Jim Di Bartolo, and their baby daughter Clementine.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ltAur3EyRk0&amp;rel=0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following in the footsteps of Harry Potter and Twilight, we are delighted to introduce what we think will be the next phenomenon. Featuring necklaces made of wishes; an underground shop dealing in teeth; magical tattoos; a wishbone on a cord, DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE is a thrilling story about Karou and her secret life as an apprentice to a wishmonger. Karou manages to keep her two lives in balance. On the one hand, she is a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague; on the other, errand-girl to an inhuman creature who deals in wishes and is the closest thing she has to family. Her life is surrounded by mysteries she is desperate to unveil. Daughter of Smoke and Bone is a book unbounded by genre but located at a magical crossroads where The Passage meets Philip Pullman and Twilight meets Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth. About the Author Laini Taylor is the author of three previous books, the most recent of which, Lips Touch: Three Times, was a silver medal finalist for the 2009 National Book Award. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, illustrator Jim Di Bartolo, and their baby daughter Clementine. 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