Daughter of Smoke and Bone

Daughter of Smoke and Bone is the first novel in Laini Taylor's trilogy of the same name, following an art student in Prague who was raised by chimaeras as she falls in love with a seraph and discovers the dark secrets of her upbringing.

Teaser
"Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.

In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grows dangerously low.

And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.

Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real, she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands", she speaks many languages - not all of them human - and her bright blue hair actually  grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out.

When beautiful, haunted Akiva fixes fiery eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?"

--from Goodreads

Characters

 * Karou, an art student
 * Zuzana, her best friend
 * Mik, Zuzana's boyfriend
 * Brimstone, Karou's father figure

Adaptations
Universal Pictures has the film rights to Daughter of Smoke and Bone, with producer Joe Roth attached as of the end of 2012; however, no further developments have been made.

Series and Sequels
Daughter of Smoke and Bone is the first novel in a trilogy. It is followed immediately by Days of Blood and Starlight and the story is concluded in Dreams of Gods and Monsters.