I was on a definite book high when I finished this. I believe I used the word “ensorcelled” when I talked about what it was like to read the first book in this duology, Strange the Dreamer. I wasn’t quite ensorcelled here, but that’s only because I was so damn stressed out! And I knew that was going to happen. I almost didn’t give the last book five stars because the ending of it stressed me out so much, and I knew if it went […]
This book ensorcelled me, but I want to talk about the end.
This is going to be a short review. Mostly because I don’t know how to convey how much I sunk into this book while reading it. Everything about it–the language, the characters, the mythology–wrapped little story claws around my mind and didn’t let me go until I finished it. Laini Taylor is just so good at creating atmosphere in her stories. It’s one of the reasons I will read anything she decides to write. The other reason this is going to be short is that […]
“Beautiful and full of monsters?” “All the best stories are.”
From Goodreads: 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 […]
“He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn’t sleep at all.”
I love Laini Taylor. I adored Daughter of Smoke and Bone, and I really liked Days of Blood and Starlight. (I admit, I was not 100% enthusiastic about Dreams of Gods and Monsters. But as a whole, the trilogy was top-notch.) So I was ready to love this. And I did. Until the very last page.** Super quick overview here: Like the Smoke & Bone trilogy, Strange the Dreamer takes place in a fantasy world at an unknown time in history. Our hero, Lazlo Strange, […]