Laini Taylor: Daughter of Smoke and Bone

I started this last night, and couldn't stop reading today--even during planks at the gym during my BodyPump class.  Amazing characters, world, story, and language.  I wish I was more familiar with Eastern cultures, and I have a burning desire to visit Prague.  There were moments I just bawled--the emotion is palpable throughout the text--and yet moments that are wry and peaceful.  The vocabulary is rich and very culturally diverse.  I learned a great deal thanks to immediate access to Google.
Around page 320ish I knew something bad was on its way, but I couldn't stop reading.
Fantastically amazing, powerful, heart-wrenching.  The way that Taylor interwove the past with the present without a lull or overdone tactics (like italics) is truly amazing.  I didn't really know what to expect with this book, and angels and chimaera and humans and magic and war and modern technology and flight were definitely NOT on the list of possibilities.  I am so glad that I read this book.  I can't wait to see how the rest of the series will go.  Really, really, really amazing.