Strange the Dreamer, Laini Taylor
Strange the Dreamer, Laini Taylor
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Strange the Dreamer

Author: Laini Taylor

Narrator: Steve West

Unabridged: 18 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/28/2017

Synopsis

An epic fantasy about a mythic lost city and its dark past from National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared his dream chose poorly. Since he was just 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 form 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? And who is the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo's dreams? In this sweeping and breathtaking 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. Fall into a mythical world of dread and wonder, moths and nightmares, love and carnage. The answers await in Weep.

About Laini Taylor

Hi! I write fantasy books. My latest is STRANGE THE DREAMER, about a young librarian, a mythic lost city, and the half-human children of murdered gods. Check it out :-) Before that I wrote the DAUGHTER OF SMOKE & BONE trilogy, which has been translated into 32 languages. It's about a blue-haired art student raised by monsters, a broken angel, and a war that has raged for 1000 years in another world. I also wrote LIPS TOUCH: THREE TIMES, which was a National Book Award finalist, and the DREAMDARK books. As well as various short stories and novellas. Thanks for reading!! www.lainitaylor.com; @lainitaylor

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melanie on March 23, 2018

Have you ever loved a book so much that it completely fills your soul, warms your heart, and heals your broken pieces? Because that's Strange the Dreamer. “On the second Sabbat of Twelfthmoon, in the city of Weep, a girl fell from the sky. Her skin was blue, her blood was red.” This is tha......more

Goodreads review by Emily May on March 23, 2017

It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming? Oh hell, it was gorgeous perfection. I've been away for a while because I'm on vacation, but I just had to step back in and review this completely strange, utterly beautiful book. I've been waiting so long for Lain......more

Goodreads review by chloe on February 21, 2020

3rd read: Feb 2020 Mostly listened to the audiobook for this reread. Still such a phenomenal book <3 2nd read: Oct 2018 I reread this via the audiobook and the audiobook is AMAZING! 1st read: Aug-Sep 2018 this is my favourite book of all time and my heart is bursting with love for this book.......more

Goodreads review by Mark on December 12, 2024

"That was the year Zosma sank to its knees and bled great gouts of men into a war about nothing." This is a very well written book. Laini Taylor writes beautiful prose. It's also very imaginative, there are ideas in it that really impressed me. It's a book that's low on violence and action - high in......more

Goodreads review by Hailey on April 17, 2017

*Reread Apr 2017 This time I actually finished it, I listened to the audiobook, and it was better but still lots of unnecessary filler that prevented me from really getting into the story. Really sad I didn't enjoy it more but oh well, I gave it a fair shot! *DNF Jan 2017 I never, like literally never,......more

Quotes

A NPR Best Book A Goodreads Best YA Fantasy and Science Fiction NomineeA Boston Globe Best YA BookA Popcrush Best Young Adult BookA Popsugar Best Book for Women A Booklist Editors' Choice An A.V. Club Favorite Book A Tor Top Young Adult SFF BookA Christian Science Monitor Best Book A B&N Teen Blog Best Young Adult Book A Forever Young Adult Best Book

"Laini Taylor is so damn good and like no other."—Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom

"Laini Taylor set my imagination on fire so hard that it spontaneously combusted...This is the kind of story that paves dreams."—p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times}Roshani Chokshi, author of The Star Touched Queen

"[A] must-read YA!"—p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times}USA Today

"Part adventure novel, part romance and part exercise in epic myth-building, it's gorgeously written and full of surprises."—NPR

"[One of] our favorite books of the year!"—p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times}Popsugar

"An epic world of gods, moths and nightmares; a world where the dream chooses the dreamer."—p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times}Justine Magazine

"Weighty as a nightmare and as transportive as the finest of fantasy, Laini Taylor's new novel will leave readers with miracles on their minds."—p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times}Hypable

* "Gorgeously written in language simultaneously dark, lush, and enchanting, the book will leave readers eager for the next."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

* "...Characters are carefully, exquisitely crafted, the writing is achingly lovely, and the world is utterly real...This is a thing to be savored."—Booklist, starred review

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