Strange the Dreamer
Young Adult Fiction
Hodder & Stoughton
March 28, 2017
Audiobook
544
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 has to seize his chance to lose his dream forever. 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? The answers await in Weep, but so do more mysteries - including the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo's dreams. How did he dream her before he knew she existed? And if all the gods are dead, why does she seem so real? In this sweeping and breathtaking new 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.
WrensReads Review:
Okay I need to write this review now while it is in the forefront of my mind.
If you like “fairy-tale” stories like the Grimm Fairy-Tales or you like the way Neil Gaiman writes, then this book is going to be at the top of your favorites shelf.
Lazlo studies Weep.
Weep is basically “The Lost City of Atlantis” in this story. Everyone has heard stories about this magical place and the people there, but no one believes it is real because it is just a myth. Lazlo is thought a fool for having such an interest in a topic that doesn’t really help the community. In fact, they start to call him “Strange the Dreamer” (huh, isn’t that the title of this book) because of this.
Well, one day, someone from Weep pulls up and recruits people to help save their city. Lalzo does everything he can to be apart of that team.
That’s all I can really tell you about the actual plot without giving away any information. This story is like Greek Mythology mixed with The Lost City of Atlantis with a sprinkle of X-Men and a war against the dead and a little bit of forbidden love.
The kind of forbidden love that makes you wiggle and say “awe” and “my lawd”. It was love at first site and I absolutely loved everything about it (which is new, since I am not a hopeless romantic).
And let me say you kind of call one thing that you find out at the end, but then there’s this one other thing that happens at the end that absolutely breaks your heart and shocks you and you don’t know if you can recover. Like seriously I don’t know how this series can end on even an okay note.
This is one of those books that you are just going to have to take my word for it and read.
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