Lazlo Strange is a character that I won’t soon forget.

I can’t remember the last time I read a young adult fantasy series that was almost entirely narrated in a male perspective. She broke over an iron gate, crimping it on impact, and there she hung, impossibly arched, graceful as a temple dancer swooning on a lover’s arm. On the second Sabbot of Twelfthmoon, in the city of Weep, a girl fell from the sky. It set the tone for the whole book with hints of the magic and the dark ominous otherness this end brought. The prologue of the book will draw you in with the image of a girl with blue skin falling from the sky to her death. Taylor reveals the city’s dark past in a deliberate and descriptive slow burn, lulling the reader with beautiful imagery and so many quotable passages, my heart was filled with joy.Īnd so Grief and Shame abided in adjoining rooms with the door shut between them, holding their pain in their arms in stead of each other. Part of the magic and allure of STRANGE THE DREAMER is the slow reveal of the mysteries surrounding the mythical city of Weep and learning alongside Lazlo Strange what happened to this city and its people. Blending together elements of mythology, folklore, and the Renaissance period with a lush Middle-Eastern-esque setting made for beautiful imagery and a reading experience unlike any other.

The first in Laini Taylor’s highly anticipated duology is so gorgeously written and wholly unique that I was utterly charmed. Fall into a mythical world of dread and wonder, moths and nightmares, love and carnage.ĪMAZON US AMAZON UK AMAZON CA iBOOKS GET THE AUDIOBOOK GOODREADS In this sweeping and breathtaking new novel by National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of the New York Times bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, the shadow of the past is as real as the ghosts who haunt the citadel of murdered gods. How did he dream her before he knew she existed? and if all the gods are dead, why does she seem so real? The answers await in Weep, but so do more mysteries-including the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo's dreams. What happened in Weep two hundred years ago to cut it off from the rest of the world? What exactly did the Godslayer slay that went by the name of god? And what is the mysterious problem he now seeks help in solving? Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance to lose his dream forever. Since he was five years old he's been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around-and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. A new epic fantasy by National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy.

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