Laini Taylor - Daughter of Smoke and Bone

In Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Karou appears to be a normal blue-haired art student in Prague, but her life is anything but ordinary. She runs mysterious errands for a monstrous creature named Brimstone, collecting human teeth for unknown purposes, and occasionally disappears through magical portals to a war-torn world known as "Elsewhere". Karou feels like a secret, even to herself, with a nagging sense that she is incomplete. The mysteries of her past unravel when she encounters Akiva, a beautiful but haunted angel who is the sworn enemy of her family of chimaera. As their forbidden love blossoms, Karou is drawn into an epic war rooted in a violent past, forcing her to confront her true identity and the betrayal that links her to Akiva's world. The lyrical and imaginative novel explores themes of love, war, and the blurred lines between monsters and angels.