Days of Blood and Starlight

Laini Taylor

Book 2 of Daughter of Smoke and Bone

This is the second book in Laini Taylor's YA fantasy trilogy, picking up after Karou learns the devastating truth about her chimaera family and Akiva's role in their destruction. Reeling from betrayal and grief, Karou throws herself into helping rebuild the decimated chimaera resistance while Akiva, wracked with guilt, searches for his own path toward redemption on the opposite side of an escalating war. Told through multiple shifting points of view rather than the tight Karou/Akiva focus of book one, it is a darker, war-centered installment that trades much of the first book's romance for brutal conflict, political intrigue, and moral reckoning.