A review by bibliorama
Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor

2.0

For the positives, I really enjoyed the setting in the first part of this book when the majority was in Prague. I had a good sense of the space and the different environments and I feel like the set up of some interesting questions was well done. However, this book is definitely a romance with light fantasy elements (and while I've definitely read books like this in the past) it was not what I expected from this story. That alone really isn't what dropped my star rating, but there is a big contrast between the level of detail put into the surroundings once the love interest is introduced. It started to feel like their interactions could've been happening anywhere. Also there's a switch in the story that without giving to much away answers some of the books biggest questions, unfortunately this section felt like there was a lot of info dumping. I did really enjoy the female friendship that we got at the beginning, but it completely disappears off the page by the end. I will most likely not continue with the last two books.