Summary of the Book Seventeen-year-old Karou is living two lives, balancing between being an art student in Prague and being an errand-girl to a dreadful creature, the closest thing she has to family. She is raised half in our world and half in ‘Elsewhere’, and is a secret to herself. In this volume, she has to choose between the human life which offers her safety, and a war-stricken world that might be dangerous for her. She has to make the decision now, as the doors to Elsewhere is closing.
About Laini Taylor Laini Taylor was born in California in 1971. She is a young-adult fantasy author best known for the Daughter of Smoke and Bone series, the Faeries of Dreamdark books - Blackbringer and Silksinger, and Lips Touch: Three Times, which was the National Book Award finalist. Taylor currently lives in Portland, Oregon.