Laini Taylor is an American bestselling author of young adult fantasy, and a finalist for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature.

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Blackbringer is the first in the Faeries of Dreamdark series.

An ancient evil has risen to unmake the world, the Blackbringer. Only one determined young faerie stands in its way, Magpie Windwitch, granddaughter of the West Wind. Like her hero Bellatrix did 25,000 years ago, Magpie eschews the traditional secluded life of her fellow faeries in favour hunting devils that have escaped their long confinement. With her murder of crows, she goes forth to fight evils from which others would flee, even seeking out the devil that was sealed away by the Djinn King himself.

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Daughter of Smoke and Bone is the first in the eponymous series for which Taylor is best known.

Karou is a young art student in Prague who spends her days filling up sketchbooks of monsters, going to classes, spending time with her best friend, Zuzana, and trying to avoid her ex-boyfriend, Kazimir. She’s prone to disappearing on strange errands, she speaks many languages, including some inhuman ones, and her hair naturally grows a bright blue. The question of what she is haunts her. When scorched hand prints appear on doorways, left by winged visitors who have crept through a slit in the sky, and a devil’s supply of human teeth runs low, Karou may get her answer, but she may not like it, or how she finds out.