Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone:
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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.
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I liked the first book, but never got around to the sequel. I see the third book in the triology is here soon, so maybe I should pick it up again.
And then there's Brust's To Reign in Hell. Not quite what you asked for -- both Yahweh and Satan are mostly well intentioned, trying to do what's best in a difficult situation that escalates beyond control, into a disaster nobody wanted.