Description

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war. This was not that world.

‘REMARKABLE AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN’ GUARDIAN
‘MESEMERISING’ MARIE CLAIRE

She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil’s lair.

She wasn’t innocent now . . .

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 grows dangerously low.

And an art student named Karou wanders the tangled lanes of Prague, plagued by the sensation that she isn’t whole.

When one of the strangers – beautiful, haunted Akiva – fixes his fire-coloured eyes on Karou, she is swept away into a deadly war. Soon she must choose between the safety of her ordinary life and a dangerous world that holds the answers she has always sought . . .

Star-crossed love, dangerous secrets, and deadly worlds collide in this sweeping fantasy adventure by a New York Times bestselling author.

‘THE WORLD-BUILDING DESCRIPTIONS AND LANGUAGE STOP YOUR HEART AND THEN, LIKE A DEFIBRILLATOR, START IT UP AGAIN’ NEW YORK TIMES
‘WOW. I WISH I HAD WRITTEN THIS BOOK’ PATRICK ROTHFUSS

PRAISE FOR LAINI TAYLOR

‘Imaginative, spell binding, captivating and heart breaking. This is what books should be’
‘Truly a thing of literary beauty’
‘I was literally shouting “WHAT!? I want more!!!”. I can’t believe it ended that way’
‘Absolutely endearing, the whole thing’
‘The story was really well constructed…I mean really. The prose was practically perfect’

Publisher Review

Mesmerising. * Marie Claire * The world-building descriptions and language stop your heart and then, like a defibrillator, start it up again. * New York Times * Remarkable and beautifully written . . . The opening volume of a truly original trilogy. * Guardian * WOW. I wish I had written this book. * Patrick Rothfuss *