So that’s it! Check the content below and happy reading! Again, not sorry I read the book, but thought that needed brief noting. I guess I felt like Karou in Daughter of Smoke and Bone really feels young, and that anchored the story in the young adult genre for me. It feels heavier and definitely more adult in the way the characters romantic relationships progress. Strange the Dreamer is a bit more of an adult story than I remember Daughter of Smoke and Bone being. So whenever there would be those zoom-out moments where we get a god’s-eye view of what’s happening in all the heads of all the people, I kind of had to blink a few times and re-settle into the story. It’s consistent and adds a lot to the novel, so I totally get why Strange the Dreamer is written this way, but omniscient isn’t my favorite. The only thing that really made me stumble is the omniscient point-of-view in which the story is told. Of course the tragic Godslayer had me at his first appearance, too. I loved them both, but especially Lazlo for his enthusiasm and his desire to help others.

Both Lazlo and Sarai pretty much had me at hello. I love the way Taylor creates broad, deep story worlds and draws readers into cultural conflicts and explores values where they come from. I always do this to myself! And then usually, it’s all good, and I enjoy the new book or series anyway. It took me a long time to read Strange the Dreamer because I loved Daughter of Smoke and Bone so much that I worried Strange wouldn’t measure up or would make me miss the other series too much.

How did he dream her before he knew she existed? And if all the gods are dead, why does she seem so real? The answers await in Weep, but so do more mysteries-including the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo’s dreams. 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?

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. 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.

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. Published on MaAmazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads

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