I read Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone series last year and didn’t think all that much of it. It read like bad fanfic, despite being more or less original. So I didn’t have the highest of expectations going into Strange the Dreamer, and got to be pleasantly surprised. I’ve even got a future hold on book 2 at the library set up. If you couldn’t tell by the title and cover, this is another young adult fantasy about a young person discovering their place in […]
You’re Welcome to Weep
On the Second Sabbat of Twelfthmoon, in the city of Weep, a girl fell from the sky. Lazlo Strange has been fascinated by the city of Weep since he was a boy. A far away place cut off from the world 200 years ago, even its name has been snuffed out of existence. Lazlo felt magic in the air when that happened, and has spent his life since learning all he can about Weep. An orphan raised by monks, he finds himself at the library […]
The End is the Beginning
An alliance has formed between the angels and chimaera. A shaky alliance hinging on the deception of Karou and Ziri, her Kirin kin. After being attacked by Thiago, Karou killed him and put Ziri’s soul in Thiago’s body. Now the young Kirin has to make everyone believe he is the White Wolf, and that joining with the seraphim is their only option. Their new foe? Akiva’s uncle, Jael. He has learned about the portals to Earth and, thanks to the fallen seraphim Razgut, knows of […]
The War is Over. The Killing Continues
Karou’s family is gone. The chimaera have been decimated. The city of Loramendi has fallen. The seraphim had learned the secret of the chimaera resurrection – that every lost solider’s soul was gleaned and returned to a new body by Brimstone – and with his death the angels were able to finally win the war for Eretz. Lost in her grief, Karou meets up with Thiago, the son of the Warlord who commanded the chimaera troops. In her past life as Madrigal, which she now […]