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Strange the Dreamer

by Laini Taylor

Book 1 in Strange the Dreamer

Subject
Action & Adventure - General
Age
Teen
Format
Hardcover
Pages
544
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Size
16.3 cm × 23.1 cm
ISBN
9780316341684

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.

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What reviewers said

"The luxurious prose and complex world building invites and rewards slow reading....Here readers will find characters to love and ones to hate and, ultimately, a world to be willingly lost in."
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"[One of] our favorite books of the year!"
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"Part adventure novel, part romance and part exercise in epic myth-building, it's gorgeously written and full of surprises."
NPR
"[Strange the Dreamer] has all the rich, evocative imagery and complex world-building typical of Taylor's best work. This outstanding fantasy is a must-purchase for all YA collections."
School Library Journal, starred review
"Gorgeously written in language simultaneously dark, lush, and enchanting, the book will leave readers eager for the next."
Publishers Weekly, starred review
"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
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