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Author: Laini Taylor

📘 Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Seventeen‑year‑old Karou is a brilliant, enigmatic art student attending a boarding school in Prague. Her sketchbook holds horrifying, nightmarish creatures—chimaerae—who form her entire family. When the supernatural realm threatens her world, Karou must navigate the dangerous crossroads between the visible and the unseen.

First publish date: 2001

Genre: Young Adult Fiction/YA Fantasy

Authors: Laini Taylor

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