OK, so, let me try and try to have thoughts clear enough to be able to write this...
You see, I read YA novels with an intense internal struggle: they are guilty pleasure, all the romance and merely romantic love. Sisters that would betray each other for beauty, longing that doesn't waver through years and years. All concepts completely alien to my life, probably for most readers lives.
And yet... Is that what compels us to read books about angels and demons and undying love? Is the frivolity of our modernity what makes us sigh at eternal beauty, neverending love and endless youth?
I can say that with university and my internship, most times all I want is curl up and read an easy book, one that takes my mind off my worries, and makes me sigh, and smile and even cry a little.
And Daughter of Smoke and Bone, oh man, this book.
You see, english is not my mother tonge, I'm brazilian. So that's another pull towards books with easier language. That being said, let me tell you, that this book had me checking the dictionary non stop. Laini Taylor's writing is beautifully crafted, she writes like a goldsmith shapes. But that didn't slow me down at all, the book's pacing was so good, that I simply kept going with the flow.
The story itself managed to have it's plot twists, nothing too surprising, just enough. Enough for me to try and justify those 5 stars. The characters were like fresh air among so much cliche. The myths, the scenarios! Never once USA was mentioned! How refreshing!
Overall, this book is a God among men.
Should you read it? Yes.
That's coming from the girl that proclaims hating girly books and sugar coated stories (who am I kidding? Eh.).