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Depuis l'âge de cinq ans, Lazlo Lestrange, orphelin, rêve de la Cité oubliée, Désolation. Attaché à la Grande Bibliothèque du royaume de Zosma, il cherche aujourd'hui à percer ses mystères. Pourquoi a-t-elle été coupée du monde pendant deux siècles ? Pourra-t-il jamais la retrouver ? Quand un groupe de guerriers légendaires venu de la Cité mythique se présente, en quête de savants pour former une expédition, le jeune garçon décide de saisir sa chance. Mais est-il prêt à affronter les ombres du passé ? Et qui est la jeune déesse à la peau bleue qui apparaît dans ses rêves ?
Kora et Nova, deux adolescentes, rêvent du jour tant attendu où des envoyés à la peau bleue viendront les enlever. Elles pourront alors accomplir leur véritable destin. Très loin de là, dans la mythique Cité oubliée, Lazlo Lestrange doit choisir entre sauver celle qu'il aime ou les habitants de la ville interdite. Son avenir et celui de Sarai, la Muse des cauchemars, ne tiennent plus qu'à un fil que manipule une enfant meurtrie et cruelle.
Partout sur la Terre, des empreintes noires apparaissent sur des portes. Derrière l'une de ces portes, dans une of?cine sombre et encombrée de bocaux, une créature étrange commence à manquer de dents humaines. À Prague, une étudiante en art se retrouve au coeur d'une guerre millénaire entre deux peuples. Elle s'appelle Karou, a 17 ans, et remplit ses carnets de dessins de monstres qui peut-être sont réels. Elle a les cheveux bleus et parle de nombreuses langues - pas toutes humaines. Qui est-elle?
Karou, étudiante en art aux cheveux bleus, fille d'une famille de monstres, sait enfin qui elle est. Une chimère qui, dans une autre vie, a aimé un ange, un ennemi de son peuple. Cet ennemi l'a trahie et les conséquences sont terribles. Guerre, alliances, résurrections et amour impossible: Karou et Akiva sont plus que jamais dans des camps adverses.
Si Karou, chimère aux traits humains, et Akiva, ange au terrible passé, se sont un jour aimés, c'est désormais terminé. Trop de sang a coulé. Pourtant, quand Jaël, cruel général des séraphins, fait irruption sur Terre avec son armée, ils n'ont pas le choix. Malgrés les trahisons et la rancoeur, ils vont devoir s'allier et convaincre leur peuple respectif de faire de même. Mais peut-on oublier des siècles d'incompréhension, de haine et d'atrocités? Seront-ils de taille dans cette guerre entre dieux et monstres ?
***Sunday Times bestseller*** 'Laini Taylor set my imagination on fire so hard that it spontaneously combusted . . . This is the kind of story that paves dreams ' - Roshani Chokshi, author of The Star Touched Queen '5*s: This whimsical and diverse tale reads like a dream' - Heat ********* The dream chooses the dreamer. Since he was five years old, Lazlo Strange has been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to go in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself - in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance or lose his dream forever. What happened in Weep to cut it off from the world? What did the Godslayer slay that went by the name of god? And what is the mysterious problem he now seeks help in solving? The answers await in Weep, but so do many more mysteries - including the blue-skinned goddess who visits Lazlo's dreams . . .
Daughter of Smoke and Bone is a book unbounded by genre but located at a magical crossroads where The Passage meets Philip Pullman and Twilight meets Pan's Labyrinth.
[Taylor]'s always been a wordsmith, and this book is no exception, but the attention she pays to the people who aren't the heroes, the care given to ordinary life and its immense importance, elevates this from an entertaining epic to a deeply necessary, sometimes devastatingly so, work of art
''Laini Taylor is so damn good and like no other'' Leigh Bardugo The limited 5th Anniversary edition of the magical Sunday Times bestseller, by Laini Taylor, author of the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy. The dream chooses the dreamer. Since he was five years old, Lazlo Strange has been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to go in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself - in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance or lose his dream forever. What happened in Weep to cut it off from the world? What did the Godslayer slay that went by the name of god? And what is the mysterious problem he now seeks help in solving? The answers await in Weep, but so do many more mysteries - including the blue-skinned goddess who visits Lazlo''s dreams . . . ********* A recipient of the Michael L. Printz Honor award for excellency in YA literature ''Magical'' Grazia ''A stunning, sensory feast of a novel'' Dail Mail ''Leaves the reader enthralled, enchanted and entirely entranced'' New York Journal of Books ''The kind of story that paves dreams'' Roshani Chokshi ''Beautiful, unusual, unexpected'' Sabaa Tahir
It began with the breathtaking DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE... This November, the story continues in the astounding, must-read sequel, DAYS OF BLOOD AND STARLIGHT
@2@@20@*An Amazon Best Book of the Year*@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@@21@@20@The final book in the gripping Sunday Times bestselling series. @21@@3@@2@By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her, if there can even @18@be@19@ a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz.@3@@2@@18@Common enemy, common cause.@19@@3@@2@When Jael's brutal seraph army trespasses into the human world, the unthinkable becomes essential, and Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat. It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people.@3@@2@And, perhaps, for themselves. Toward a new way of living, and maybe even love.@3@@2@But there are bigger threats than Jael in the offing. A vicious queen is hunting Akiva, and, in the skies of Eretz ... something is happening. Massive stains are spreading like bruises from horizon to horizon; the great winged stormhunters are gathering as if summoned, ceaselessly circling, and a deep sense of wrong pervades the world.@3@@2@@18@What power can bruise the sky @19@@3@@2@From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy. At the very barriers of space and time, what do gods and monsters dream of ? And does anything else matter@3@
