Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, 1)

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?
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3 stars because, though the third person narrative kept jumping back and forth and repeating itself, I was engaged enough to finish this, and I quite liked madrigal's story.
Don't think I'll be picking up the next though l, especially with that ending :(
Magic is fueled by TEETH and you get your wishes from monstrous beings that look like a hybrid of the scariest parts of the world, how cool is that?
Also, I would I would love to hang out with Karou and her friends. They could teach me how to draw and I would join in on their sarcastic banter and it would be AMAZING!
The twist at the end, I saw something coming, but I didn't guess the details of it and it just adds to the depth of the characters and makes me even more invested for the sequel.
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