Daughter of Smoke and Bone, a fantasy novel by Laini Taylor, has caught the eye of several major movie studios. The Young Adult book has only been out since September and its potential for adaption to a film starring a female protagonist and use of large-scale visual FX to create the fantastical elements of the story is creating quite a stir.

According to Deadline, Paramount Pictures leads the pack of studios interested in Daughter of Smoke and Bone with a bid in the $700,000 ballpark for the screen rights to the novel.

Book Synopsis:

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 grown 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 one of the strangers–beautiful, haunted Akiva–fixes his fire-colored 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?

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