Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Daughter of Smoke and Bone #1) by Laini Taylor

Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Daughter of Smoke and Bone #1)
by Laini Taylor 

Around the world, black hand prints 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 in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly 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?

"Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well." 

A bit disappointing. I enjoyed the first half of the book, It was unique and I couldn't wait to continue reading. I liked that Karou has blue hair, her tattoo's on her palms, and the mystery with her family was interesting, I wanted to know more about them. Then there's an angel,Akiva, trying to kill her. It was fun and I liked the characters
I was really into it...

But then all of a sudden Karou and Akiva are in love. It came out of nowhere really. One minute he wanted to kill her then BAM their flying on top of buildings together. It went from this really interesting, unique story I wanted more of, to all romance, which was not believable.

And then Akiva's brothers and sister came's into the picture. And I really didn't care about them enough to read about. At this point I started skimming the book.

The ending was confusing (maybe because I was skimming most of it...)
I have no idea what was going on. I got lost during the flash back scenes. (which was wayyy to long and boring) I really wanted to like this book more then I did, I loved the first half so I'm disappointed I didn't love it more. I also felt this book was way too stretched out. It could have been shortened. Not sure if I'm going to read the second book in the series, maybe if my curiosity takes over I will. ;)

"Once upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist.
And a devil knelt over him and smiled." 

2 out of 5 stars