---
product_id: 99605831
title: "Daughter of Smoke & Bone"
price: "€ 3.61"
currency: EUR
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 13
url: https://www.desertcart.be/products/99605831-daughter-of-smoke-and-bone
store_origin: BE
region: Belgium
---

# Daughter of Smoke & Bone

**Price:** € 3.61
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Daughter of Smoke & Bone
- **How much does it cost?** € 3.61 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.be](https://www.desertcart.be/products/99605831-daughter-of-smoke-and-bone)

## Best For

- Customers looking for quality international products

## Why This Product

- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Description

In a nation on the brink of war, a young art student's star-crossed love begins to bloom in the first book of the New York Times bestselling epic fantasy trilogy by award-winning author Laini Taylor. 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 otherworldly 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?

Review: Beautiful!!!!! - [...] Rating: 5 Scuppies I have heard praise for this book for so long from so many different people but now that I've finally read it I understand. The writing is beautiful. The world is so colorful and diverse and I was drawn in so quickly to the worlds and the wishes and doorways and everything else. Karou, our MC and artist who has tons of 'errands' to do and speaks several languages and natural blue hair and something mysterious about her. She lives in the human world but works in Elsewhere. She portals all over the globe and deals daily with the only family her orphan self has ever known, the Chimaera, a mixture of different human and animal parts/aspects. Each is different and unique. On an 'errand' one day Karou finds herself face to face with an angel, Akiva, one set on destroying Brimstone, the wishmonger and only father she has ever know, and blood is spilled. Still there is something about Karou that confuses and intrigues Akiva and he is determined to figure it out as Karou struggles to figure out her place in either world. I instantly knew why everyone loved this book. The characters are all unique and diverse. The Chimaera for sure had me thinking. I was adding in parts of them as she described them, with an artists eye of course, and just found myself both a bit freaked out by them and also totally loving how normal and natural Karou felt around them. They would be monsters to us, which she admits, but to her they are family. Karou, her name means home, and she has such amazing views. She's rather well rounded and grounded for her life to be what it is. She has found a place, in Prague, finally where she fits in. She has friends, OMG I love Zuzana. She is also always in the back of her mind wondering about the 'what if' of being an orphan. What her life could have been and who she could have been if things were different. She has blue hair, she used a wish on hair that comes out naturally that color. How awesome, it seems silly but it's a part of who she is. I love it. Now wishes. Here I need to take a moment to say how jealous I am. The languages. To be able to wish a language and have perfect understanding of it, who hasn't wished for that before. I know I have. I've tried learning a few but it feels next to impossible to learn alone it always seems like school work and not natural. Everything I've tried always tries to teach grammar first which kills my desire quickly. Anywho this book and the wishes, the different levels you can gain (Scuppy, Shing, Lucknow, Gavriel, and Bruxis) the most powerful of which I would never have. Each one has a cost and a level of which you can wish. The idea of a string of scuppies around my wrist, oh yeah I'd use those bad boys. I even know what I would do with some of the others and yes languages would be on the top of my list. Learning about each of them and the different things wished for is just fascinating. That doesn't even add that you don't have to use them to travel because you have special portals to go all over the world! How cool? I mean I could save so much time and money that way. The whole book has action in it for sure but there is a lot of unraveling to be done. The world is built up throughout the story but we keep peeling back layer after layer of the story diving into more and more of what is happening. Brimstone has kept Karou from most of the happenings of Elsewhere, he has lots of secrets. The whole story is a paranormal mystery with some romance and hilarity and action all rolled beautifully into one. I could not put this book down I was so captivated by it and the ending had me gasping and wishing I had the sequel there with me. Thankfully I don't have to wait long to read it, benefit of marathoning series when they are complete! Those are my thoughts on the story. I feel like I didn't do it justice but I think talking any more about certain aspects would ruin some of the best parts. I really enjoyed discovering everything for myself and while I did see several things coming I was always intrigued because of the way things came about. Plus again I can't say it enough the world was just beautiful! Oh and one side note I have is that after I read this I went online and saw a ton of images and people mentioning a graphic novel! How devastated was I to learn that there was a graphic novel sampler sent out to very few years ago but since then there has been no full novel put out  I know I'm new to this party but whoever is in charge of this please get on this ASAP! This is the perfect book to do in graphic novel form with all the creatures, art, worlds, and eye catching things (I mean our MC has blue hair how beautiful). Pretty please make it happen.
Review: Good beginning to an intriguing series - It's been awhile since I have picked up a paranormal romance. This one has been sitting on my shelf FOREVER, and despite hearing glowing reviews for it, I just couldn't pull up the enthusiasm to begin it. All I can say is ... I am super glad that I waited to begin this series until it is almost completed. I don' think I could have handled a long wait to find out what happens next for these characters. As it is, with the heartbreaking/surprising ending to this story I am planning on waiting to start the second book until right before the publication of the final book in the series. I don't think that my heart is ready for too much sadness and difficulty unless I know that the (hopefully) happy ending is sitting on my kindle, waiting to be read right away. This is a love story ... an epic love story. It is a love story that has been done over and over and over again. Two people (or angels or chimaera or monsters or whatever you choose) meet up. They come from two different groups who hate one another for different reasons. Love blooms. Differences melt away. Hope runs freely ... until it doesn't. Tragedy strikes. Love is not enough to keep the couple together. Etc. Etc. Etc. Like I say, this is a story that has been done before. But the reason that is has been done so often is because the story line is so intriguing. We want to believe that peace is possible between two peoples or groups who have not known peace before. We want to believe that love can conquer all. So we read ... and we hope. For those of you instalove haters out there, you should know that there is a good amount of instalove going on in this story. But I think that it works in the context of these particular characters and what they represent. Especially when you know the entire history of these two, the instant attraction makes a ton of sense. Karou is a blue-haired art student in Prague who has a side job as a messenger/collector for Brimstone, a chimaera beast who collects lots and lots of teeth from this world. There is significance to these teeth, but we don't see why for a good portion of the novel. On one of these runs for teeth Karou encounters a seraphim soldier named Akiva. Things don't go smoothly during this first meeting. Akiva almost kills Karou ... but doesn't. She intrigues him for some reason, so he finds her again and discovers something REALLY interesting about her that I won't reveal here. I'll just say that Karou is much more than the human girl she believes herself to be. What follows is an intense love connection that, in the scope of things, really doesn't last all that long. This really does follow a Romeo and Juliet sort of story arc where the main characters find tragedy simply by figuring out the truth too late to prevent horrible things from happening. As for the writing ... this is probably the best story of this genre involving seraphim and chimaera that I have ever read. It seems fresh and interesting. The love story is pretty strong, but I can tell that although the love story is essential to the progression of the series, it is not simply going to be this sappy gooey eyed love fest with a plot thrown around it. There are bigger themes and richer plot lines that are simply enhanced by the epic love that drives (hopefully) these characters and their actions. I admit that I was not so excited to read the back story involving Madrigal, but it is essential to understanding exactly how tragic Akiva's final revelation at the end of this book is. It really creates a moment where you can just feel the stake driven straight through your heart. Timing is everything! Ugh! Karou and Akiva are good lead characters for this story. I really appreciated that this story was told in third person so that we could see multiple angles of the action. I still feel like there is so much more to know about each of them, especially after the final scene of the book. Future installments of this series will show whether or not these two have staying power as leads or if they turn into cardboard cutouts of token lovers torn apart by heartache with little else to define them. Normally after an ending like this one I would be clamoring to get my hands on book two, but I expect A LOT of bad things to happen before this story starts to turn in the right direction, so I'll hold off for a couple of months until book three arrives. Still, I do recommend this book for those looking for an epic romance in the midst of an interesting and unique paranormal world. Four stars!

## Images

![Daughter of Smoke & Bone - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81RvhEcopCL.jpg)

## Available Options

This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful!!!!!
*by E***E on February 8, 2016*

[...] Rating: 5 Scuppies I have heard praise for this book for so long from so many different people but now that I've finally read it I understand. The writing is beautiful. The world is so colorful and diverse and I was drawn in so quickly to the worlds and the wishes and doorways and everything else. Karou, our MC and artist who has tons of 'errands' to do and speaks several languages and natural blue hair and something mysterious about her. She lives in the human world but works in Elsewhere. She portals all over the globe and deals daily with the only family her orphan self has ever known, the Chimaera, a mixture of different human and animal parts/aspects. Each is different and unique. On an 'errand' one day Karou finds herself face to face with an angel, Akiva, one set on destroying Brimstone, the wishmonger and only father she has ever know, and blood is spilled. Still there is something about Karou that confuses and intrigues Akiva and he is determined to figure it out as Karou struggles to figure out her place in either world. I instantly knew why everyone loved this book. The characters are all unique and diverse. The Chimaera for sure had me thinking. I was adding in parts of them as she described them, with an artists eye of course, and just found myself both a bit freaked out by them and also totally loving how normal and natural Karou felt around them. They would be monsters to us, which she admits, but to her they are family. Karou, her name means home, and she has such amazing views. She's rather well rounded and grounded for her life to be what it is. She has found a place, in Prague, finally where she fits in. She has friends, OMG I love Zuzana. She is also always in the back of her mind wondering about the 'what if' of being an orphan. What her life could have been and who she could have been if things were different. She has blue hair, she used a wish on hair that comes out naturally that color. How awesome, it seems silly but it's a part of who she is. I love it. Now wishes. Here I need to take a moment to say how jealous I am. The languages. To be able to wish a language and have perfect understanding of it, who hasn't wished for that before. I know I have. I've tried learning a few but it feels next to impossible to learn alone it always seems like school work and not natural. Everything I've tried always tries to teach grammar first which kills my desire quickly. Anywho this book and the wishes, the different levels you can gain (Scuppy, Shing, Lucknow, Gavriel, and Bruxis) the most powerful of which I would never have. Each one has a cost and a level of which you can wish. The idea of a string of scuppies around my wrist, oh yeah I'd use those bad boys. I even know what I would do with some of the others and yes languages would be on the top of my list. Learning about each of them and the different things wished for is just fascinating. That doesn't even add that you don't have to use them to travel because you have special portals to go all over the world! How cool? I mean I could save so much time and money that way. The whole book has action in it for sure but there is a lot of unraveling to be done. The world is built up throughout the story but we keep peeling back layer after layer of the story diving into more and more of what is happening. Brimstone has kept Karou from most of the happenings of Elsewhere, he has lots of secrets. The whole story is a paranormal mystery with some romance and hilarity and action all rolled beautifully into one. I could not put this book down I was so captivated by it and the ending had me gasping and wishing I had the sequel there with me. Thankfully I don't have to wait long to read it, benefit of marathoning series when they are complete! Those are my thoughts on the story. I feel like I didn't do it justice but I think talking any more about certain aspects would ruin some of the best parts. I really enjoyed discovering everything for myself and while I did see several things coming I was always intrigued because of the way things came about. Plus again I can't say it enough the world was just beautiful! Oh and one side note I have is that after I read this I went online and saw a ton of images and people mentioning a graphic novel! How devastated was I to learn that there was a graphic novel sampler sent out to very few years ago but since then there has been no full novel put out  I know I'm new to this party but whoever is in charge of this please get on this ASAP! This is the perfect book to do in graphic novel form with all the creatures, art, worlds, and eye catching things (I mean our MC has blue hair how beautiful). Pretty please make it happen.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good beginning to an intriguing series
*by M***A on January 27, 2014*

It's been awhile since I have picked up a paranormal romance. This one has been sitting on my shelf FOREVER, and despite hearing glowing reviews for it, I just couldn't pull up the enthusiasm to begin it. All I can say is ... I am super glad that I waited to begin this series until it is almost completed. I don' think I could have handled a long wait to find out what happens next for these characters. As it is, with the heartbreaking/surprising ending to this story I am planning on waiting to start the second book until right before the publication of the final book in the series. I don't think that my heart is ready for too much sadness and difficulty unless I know that the (hopefully) happy ending is sitting on my kindle, waiting to be read right away. This is a love story ... an epic love story. It is a love story that has been done over and over and over again. Two people (or angels or chimaera or monsters or whatever you choose) meet up. They come from two different groups who hate one another for different reasons. Love blooms. Differences melt away. Hope runs freely ... until it doesn't. Tragedy strikes. Love is not enough to keep the couple together. Etc. Etc. Etc. Like I say, this is a story that has been done before. But the reason that is has been done so often is because the story line is so intriguing. We want to believe that peace is possible between two peoples or groups who have not known peace before. We want to believe that love can conquer all. So we read ... and we hope. For those of you instalove haters out there, you should know that there is a good amount of instalove going on in this story. But I think that it works in the context of these particular characters and what they represent. Especially when you know the entire history of these two, the instant attraction makes a ton of sense. Karou is a blue-haired art student in Prague who has a side job as a messenger/collector for Brimstone, a chimaera beast who collects lots and lots of teeth from this world. There is significance to these teeth, but we don't see why for a good portion of the novel. On one of these runs for teeth Karou encounters a seraphim soldier named Akiva. Things don't go smoothly during this first meeting. Akiva almost kills Karou ... but doesn't. She intrigues him for some reason, so he finds her again and discovers something REALLY interesting about her that I won't reveal here. I'll just say that Karou is much more than the human girl she believes herself to be. What follows is an intense love connection that, in the scope of things, really doesn't last all that long. This really does follow a Romeo and Juliet sort of story arc where the main characters find tragedy simply by figuring out the truth too late to prevent horrible things from happening. As for the writing ... this is probably the best story of this genre involving seraphim and chimaera that I have ever read. It seems fresh and interesting. The love story is pretty strong, but I can tell that although the love story is essential to the progression of the series, it is not simply going to be this sappy gooey eyed love fest with a plot thrown around it. There are bigger themes and richer plot lines that are simply enhanced by the epic love that drives (hopefully) these characters and their actions. I admit that I was not so excited to read the back story involving Madrigal, but it is essential to understanding exactly how tragic Akiva's final revelation at the end of this book is. It really creates a moment where you can just feel the stake driven straight through your heart. Timing is everything! Ugh! Karou and Akiva are good lead characters for this story. I really appreciated that this story was told in third person so that we could see multiple angles of the action. I still feel like there is so much more to know about each of them, especially after the final scene of the book. Future installments of this series will show whether or not these two have staying power as leads or if they turn into cardboard cutouts of token lovers torn apart by heartache with little else to define them. Normally after an ending like this one I would be clamoring to get my hands on book two, but I expect A LOT of bad things to happen before this story starts to turn in the right direction, so I'll hold off for a couple of months until book three arrives. Still, I do recommend this book for those looking for an epic romance in the midst of an interesting and unique paranormal world. Four stars!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Restoring Faith in Young Adult Fantasy
*by C***A on May 11, 2016*

This is really more along the lines of four and a half stars, but five works just as well. Ahh. 2011. What a crappy time to be an adult reading young adult literature. Like many, I suspect, I had been burned by the young adult genre, and burned badly. I bought books in series where the plot was stretched thin to accommodate the obligatory three other books in the quartet (all hoping for a film franchise because, come on). I read books where the unbelievably plain girl (who everyone else thinks is amazingly gorgeous) ends up with the male co-lead who treated her like dirt for a quarter of the book. I read books that found ridiculous, convoluted reasons for the couple to not get together, so that I had to keep reading in “hopes” that they did. I rolled my eyes at the number of Duckie, best-friend-who-passive-aggresively-wants-to-be-more-and-glowers-about-it-while-insisting-he’s-a-nice-guy’s. Books with love triangles for no reason other than to give readers something to argue over. A lot of these books, I was sort of asking for it from. Some of them, I really wasn’t. Most of them went back and I continued my search. I wanted to find ones I honestly liked, but I was losing faith and getting burnt out. It was dark, dark times, friends. I knew about Daughter of Smoke and Bone when it first was published. I avoided it like the plague. Nay. I avoided it like the young adult supernatural romance genre because that was more terrifying than bubonic. At least, it had spread like bubonic and made me feel dirty to come into contact with it. I didn’t read the series until 2013 when I borrowed it from the public library. Ha! Disappoint me if you will, at least I would be disappointed for free. I was not disappointed. I wish I had read Daughter of Smoke and Bone earlier. It’s pretty much exactly what I was combing through endless clones for. It had plot and character, length without filler, a prose I could actually love, and something I’d found oddly missing from the fantasy genre: worldbuilding. Daughter of Smoke and Bone is equal parts teen romance and Jim Henson. And I mean dark Jim Henson, circa Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal. The fantasy elements of the book are so dark but so grounded and easy to except. There was no suspension of disbelief because Laini Taylor makes the world live and breathe and bleed. You know that wide-eyed look most of us had with Diagon Alley in the first Harry Potter book? That’s the one. Best of all, it’s one of those young adult entries that earns the title young adult. Karou’s quest for identity, love, and family and truth feels personal, and I can care about it because it’s so humanized. Karous herself is likeable because she stands out as a heroine. Her insecurities feel real without the need to make her sound self-loathing, which is a real plus in a genre with female leads who must find themselves ugly and stupid and boring so as to appear humble. Because you can only earn your unbelievably, enviously hot boyfriend if you don’t like yourself too much. I mean, how else can you devout all your time to him? How else can he rebuild your self-esteem? I’m getting off point. There is a romance in the book, but it’s more on the back burner because Karou first and foremost is concerned for her family of monsters, most concerned with finding out who she is, and most concerned with staying alive. Akiva’s arrival is at best a catalyst at this point, not the sum total of Karou’s concerns. There isn’t much to him yet, and that might be a problem for some readers. For me, I was braced to wait until the next book to pass judgment. Series, I usually rationalize, are one big story. If the payoff is there, I can wait. As long as my goodwill is not squandered. Besides, Karou is who I cared about here. If I had to point to any detractors, I think others have pointed out the latter half of the book contains a reveal that is less of a twist and more an ‘of course’. I won’t outright call it a cliché, but I spent a good chunk of the book hoping that wasn’t the twist, just so that it would be something else. It isn’t disappointing, per se, I had just wanted the book to aspire to be a little different. It’s a small nit to pick, but there it is. You could also find fault with the fact that Akiva almost falls in line with the other hostile male leads that inexplicably fall in love with the heroine after attempting to harm them in some way. For me, context mattered, and context was there later in the series. I can see it being an issue for others, it just wasn’t for me (it also mattered that he outright showed remorse. He didn’t shrug his shoulders and expect Karou to get over it. So point to him). She also doesn’t handwave his attack. There is introspection and not just, I’m not fussed about it, let’s just move on. Lastly, I can see putting an age on the book of fifteen or sixteen and up because of references to sex that aren’t exactly oblique. For some that could be a deal breaker. Others will find it refreshing: teenage girls do talk about sex. They have their hearts broken. They get suckered in by emotional conartists. In my eyes, the more fantastic the story, the more grounded the human experience needs to be. Karou has a hell of a story in front of her, but she also has very human, believable experiences that have formed her. it’s what makes reading about a schoolgirl having adventures work: she’s recognizable. And for what it’s worth, the next book in the series might be even better. This is my favorite for reasons I can’t get into, but I can say that the next book does not fall into that trap of filler middle book syndrome so many series suffer from.

---

## Why Shop on Desertcart?

- 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016
- 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories
- 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price
- 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members)
- 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection
- ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews

**Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.be/products/99605831-daughter-of-smoke-and-bone](https://www.desertcart.be/products/99605831-daughter-of-smoke-and-bone)

---

*Product available on Desertcart Belgium*
*Store origin: BE*
*Last updated: 2026-11-04*