She doesn’t know where she comes from and nobody will tell her. She lives in two worlds – Elsewhere and Earth.

She runs errands for Brimstone, who raised her, and lives as a 17-year-old art student in Prague.

Enter Akiva, the angel who wants to kill her family.

But he’s smitten, as he observes, “It was like stepping into the pages of a book – a book alive with colour and fragrance, filth and chaos – and the blue-haired girl moved through it all like a fairy through a story, the light treating her differently than it did others, the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.”

The doors to Elsewhere are closing. Karou has to find out who she is, and what her destiny is.

This novel is beautifully written. Taylor weaves words with myths with dreams.

 However, I found she lost me in the last third of the story, when things became a bit too unbelievable.


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