The prose is exquisite and rich, the characters wonderfully real. These gods may have been destroyed, but their presence still lingers on in the darkness and the flicker of a moth’s wing, and in the shattered hearts of those touched by the tragedy of their reign. It is buried in sadness and burdened with a past that haunts even those that can no longer remember it, hidden in the shadows of the mysterious “gods”. However, when a living legend, the man they call the Godslayer, suddenly appears on the doorstep – together with a band of unusual beasts and heralded by a great white bird – Lazlo realises he cannot let this opportunity slip through his fingers.īut Weep is not the city he has dreamed of. For he is just a librarian, no hero, no golden alchemist, no legend in the making. But what happened to the city 200 years ago, when it was cut from the world? And why – how? – did it lose its name, 15 years ago? Lazlo has always wondered, but feared he would not be the one to find it. A war orphan and a librarian, Lazlo has always been fascinated in fairy tale and myth, particularly that concerning the lost city known as Weep. They say that the dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around, and Lazlo Strange has always been a dreamer. Strange the Dreamer is unlike any tale you may read this year, but suffice to say it is an immersive, magical read with a taste of romance and tragedy. Add this to your reading list this winter.

Her style is lyrical, evocative, and rich with imagination. Without his books, his room felt like a body with its hearts cut out.The most beautiful books are always the hardest to review, and whatever I write, it is difficult to capture the sheer beauty that is Laini Taylor’s prose, while embracing the mesmerising surreality of the worlds she conceives. I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming. How did he dream her before he knew she existed? And if all the gods are dead, why does she seem so real?īook Quotes: Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor 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.

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