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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.Errand requiring immediate attention. Come.The note was on vellum, pierced by the talons of the almost-crow that delivered it. Karou read the message. 'He never says please', she sighed, but she gathered up her things. When Brimstone called, she always came. In general, Karou has managed to keep her two lives in balance. On the one hand, she's a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague; on the other, errand-girl to a monstrous creature who is the closest thing she has to family. Raised half in our world, half in 'Elsewhere', she has never understood Brimstone's dark work - buying teeth from hunters and murderers - nor how she came into his keeping. She is a secret even to herself, plagued by the sensation that she isn't whole.Now the doors to Elsewhere are closing, and Karou must choose between the safety of her human life and the dangers of a war-ravaged world that may hold the answers she has always sought.'Remarkable and beautifully written ...The opening volume of a truly original trilogy.' GUARDIAN

Třetí a závěrečný díl epické trilogie o boji chimér a andělů, kteří se ve své nesmiřitelné válce neohlížejí na to, jestli při ní zničí také svět lidí. – Karou převzala kontrolu nad povstáním chimér a snaží se je odvrátit od pomsty, která by znamenala jejich zkázu. Když krutý vládce andělů vnese zmar i do lidského světa, Karou a Akiva, dřívější nepřátelé, jsou nuceni uzavřít spojenectví. Jejich nové pouto je jen pokřivenou ozvěnou jejich dávného slibu, ale přesto v sobě nese naději – pro jejich národy i pro ně samotné.

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 . . .

Prepare to be enchanted' Sun 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 . . . The magical sequel, MUSE OF NIGHTMARES, is now available to pre-order!

Sarai has lived and breathed nightmares since she was six years old. She believed she knew every horror, and was beyond surprise. She was wrong. In the wake of tragedy, neither Lazlo nor Sarai are who they were before. One a god, the other a ghost, they struggle to grasp the new boundaries of their selves as dark-minded Minya holds them hostage, intent on vengeance against Weep. Lazlo faces an unthinkable choice - save the woman he loves, or everyone else? - while Sarai feels more helpless than ever. But is she? Sometimes, only the direst need can teach us our own depths, and Sarai, the muse of nightmares, has not yet discovered what she's capable of. As humans and godspawn reel in the aftermath of the citadel's near fall, a new foe shatters their fragile hopes, and the mysteries of the Mesarthim are resurrected: Where did the gods come from, and why? What was done with the thousands of children born in the citadel nursery? And most important of all, as forgotten doors are opened and new worlds revealed: must heroes always slay monsters, or is it possible to save them instead?

Sarai vysílala každou noc své můry a myslela si, že už zná všechny hrůzy světa. Mýlila se. Po tragédii ani Lazlo, ani Sarai nejsou tím, čím byli dříve. Jeden bůh, druhý duch. Lazlo čelí nemyslitelné volbě – zachránit dívku, kterou miluje, nebo zachránit všechny ostatní a ji ztratit. A Sarai se cítí bezmocnější než kdy předtím. Na obzoru se objevují noví nepřátelé, ti staří znovu získávají sílu… Ale nejdůležitější ze všeho je otázka: Musí hrdinové vždy zabíjet nestvůry, nebo je místo toho mohou chránit?

Sarai has lived and breathed nightmares since she was six years old. She believed she knew every horror, and was beyond surprise. She was wrong. In the wake of tragedy, neither Lazlo nor Sarai are who they were before. One a god, the other a ghost, they struggle to grasp the new boundaries of their selves as dark-minded Minya holds them hostage, intent on vengeance against Weep. Lazlo faces an unthinkable choice - save the woman he loves, or everyone else? - while Sarai feels more helpless than ever. But is she? Sometimes, only the direst need can teach us our own depths, and Sarai, the muse of nightmares, has not yet discovered what she's capable of. As humans and godspawn reel in the aftermath of the citadel's near fall, a new foe shatters their fragile hopes, and the mysteries of the Mesarthim are resurrected: Where did the gods come from, and why? What was done with the thousands of children born in the citadel nursery? And most important of all, as forgotten doors are opened and new worlds revealed: must heroes always slay monsters, or is it possible to save them instead? Love and hate, revenge and redemption, destruction and salvation all clash in this gorgeous sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer.

The 10th anniversary edition of the breathtaking final instalment in Laini Taylor's unmissable Sunday Times bestselling series 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 be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz. Common enemy, common cause. 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. And, perhaps, for themselves. Toward a new way of living . . . and maybe even love. 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. What power can bruise the sky? 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?

The story continues in this astounding, must-read sequel to Daughter of Smoke and Bone . . . Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a new way of living - one without massacres and torn throats and bonfires of the fallen, without revenants or bastard armies or children ripped from their mothers' arms to take their turn in the killing and dying. Once, the lovers lay entwined in the moon's secret temple and dreamed of a world that was like a jewel-box without a jewel - a paradise waiting for them to find it and fill it with their happiness. This was not that world.

Karou je nadaná, krásná a tak trochu záhadná sedmnáctiletá studentka na pražské umělecké škole. Její tajemství nezná ani její nejlepší přítelkyně Zuzana. Ráda kreslí chiméry, fantastické bytosti, a nikdo netuší, že tato mytická stvoření jsou její rodinou. Přichází a odchází skrze portál za svým zvláštním posláním, kterým ji její pověřil čaroděj, který ji vychoval. Neví, že ji sleduje smrtelně nebezpečný a mrazivě krásný anděl, a válka mezi světy dobra a zla brzy vypukne.

Sen si vybírá snílka, nikdy naopak. Sirotek a knihovník Lazlo se celý život bál, že si ho vybere nějaký obyčejný sen. Už odmala je navíc posedlý mytickým ztraceným městem Pláč. Ale na to, aby ho vyrazil hledat přes půl světa, je příliš zbabělý. A tak o městě hledá každou zmínku v knihách, dokud se mu nenaskytne příležitost vyrazit se skupinou legendárních válečníků. S nimi si může konečně splnit svůj sen… nebo o něj navždy přijít.

Sarai vysílala každou noc své můry a myslela si, že už zná všechny hrůzy světa. Mýlila se. Po tragédii ani Lazlo, ani Sarai nejsou tím, čím byli dříve. Jeden bůh, druhý duch. Lazlo čelí nemyslitelné volbě – zachránit dívku, kterou miluje, nebo zachránit všechny ostatní a ji ztratit. A Sarai se cítí bezmocnější než kdy předtím. Na obzoru se objevují noví nepřátelé, ti staří znovu získávají sílu… Ale nejdůležitější ze všeho je otázka: Musí hrdinové vždy zabíjet nestvůry, nebo je místo toho mohou chránit?

Itt a New York Times bestseller A különös álmodozó – Strange the Dreamer várva-várt folytatása a Nemzeti Könyvdíj-nyertes Laini Taylortól, a Füst és Csont leánya írónőjétől. Szárája hatéves kora óta uralta Könny lakosainak álmait a Rémálmok Múzsájaként. Eddig azt gondolta, hogy már ismer minden szörnyűséget, így többé semmi sem lepheti meg. Ám amikor lezuhant a citadellából, rájött, hogy tévedett. Sem ő, sem szerelme, a jóképű, álmodozó idegen, Lazlo sem lehetett már ugyanaz, mint előtte: egyikük istenné, másikuk szellemmé lett, és így kellett szembenézniük Minja fenyegetésével, aki véres bosszút tervez az alattuk elterülő város lakói ellen. Lazlo lehetetlen döntésre kényszerül – mentse meg a nőt, akit szeret, vagy mindenki mást? –, miközben Szárája reménytelenebbnek érzi magát, mint eddig valaha. És ez még nem minden, ugyanis hirtelen egy új ellenséggel is meg kell küzdeniük, valamint rá kell jönniük, honnan jöttek az istenek,és miért. Mindeközben, ahogy az elfeledett ajtókat kinyitják, új világok tárulnak fel.

In the wake of tragedy, neither Lazlo nor Sarai are who they were before. One a god, the other a ghost, they struggle to grasp the new boundaries of their selves as dark-minded Minya holds them hostage, intent on vengeance against Weep. Lazlo faces an unthinkable choice - save the woman he loves, or everyone else? - while Sarai feels more helpless than ever. But is she? Sometimes, only the direst need can teach us our own depths, and Sarai, the muse of nightmares, has not yet discovered what she's capable of. As humans and godspawn reel in the aftermath of the citadel's near fall, a new foe shatters their fragile hopes, and the mysteries of the Mesarthim are resurrected: Where did the gods come from, and why? What was done with the thousands of children born in the citadel nursery? And most important of all, as forgotten doors are opened and new worlds revealed: must heroes always slay monsters, or is it possible to save them instead? Love and hate, revenge and redemption, destruction and salvation all clash in this gorgeous sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer.