The Wishbone
Just a Little SnapA wishbone hasn't been this complicated since that Thanksgiving where crazy Aunt Ida and blind uncle Karl fought over it and someone lost their false teeth in a pile of jellied cr...
Tattoos
Invisible InkOne of the first things we learn about Karou is that she has "bright blue hair [and] a constellation of tattoos" on her body. Ooh, pretty. Then we never hear of those tattoos again. Ma...
Wings and Shadows
Crash and Burn Wings conjure up feelings of freedom—you know, like, soaring through the sky without a care in the whole world. The wings in Daughter of Smoke and Bone? They're more like Icarus's...
Mustaches
Stachenfreude Pink-haired author Laini Taylor is from Portland, and let's just say we can tell. This book's Portland hipster cred is totally cemented by all of the seemingly random references to mu...
Hope and Wishes
A Thing for FeathersWishes seem pretty innocuous, right? You wish on your birthday cake candles. You wish on a star. But then there's that old saying "be careful what you wish for." Daughter of Smo...