Laini Taylor’s is a word goddess, she has mastered the art of how to arrange them to create beautiful, beautiful art. When writing these reviews I like to come up with comparisons. I couldn’t with Strange the Dreamer. This book stands apart from every other fantasy I’ve read.
You’ve probably heard it said about a hundred different ways how lyrical and beautiful this book is and I don’t care if I’m just one more voice shouting into the dark void that is the internet. It cannot be said enough!
Strange the Dreamer is a story about an orphan boy, Lazlo, who at the age of five lost the name of a mythic city he’s obsessed with. But how do you lose a name? When a mysterious and also somewhat majestic band of warriors roll into town, Lazlo is presented with the opportunity to find the answer to that question and also to visit the very city he’s dreamed about since he was a boy.
The way the story unfolds is slow and careful and beautiful. The pacing was just right, because in order for this book to be the wonderful bag of glitter it is we needed the careful build up for the construction of the world and our dear dear Lazlo.
This is a book everyone should read! Its magical and beautiful and complex and it has the makings of a fairy-tale. You know, the whole, dreams come true if you dream hard enough.
RATING: ★★★★★“Like nightmares, dreams were insidious things, and didn’t like being locked away.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
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. 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. 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 or lose his dream forever.
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?
The answers await in Weep, but so do more mysteries—including the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo’s dreams. How did he dream her before he knew she existed? And if all the gods are dead, why does she seem so real?
Welcome to Weep.
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