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Strange the Dreamer

by Laini Taylor

A librarian’s dream leads toward a city cut off from the world

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A librarian’s dream leads toward a city cut off from the world

Lazlo Strange, a war orphan working as a junior librarian, has been captivated since childhood by Weep, a lost city whose history has been hidden for two centuries. When an opportunity arises to travel there with the Godslayer and a group of warriors, his longstanding fascination becomes a journey toward questions about the city’s separation and the blue-skinned goddess in his dreams. The publisher’s description frames the fantasy around a place shaped by a violent past, with its citadel and divine mysteries anchoring the story. Family, loss, dreams, and the pull of history all sit alongside the book’s mythic setting.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in epic fantasy and mythic lost cities.
  • Readers who enjoy stories centered on mysteries about a place’s past.
  • Those drawn to protagonists whose lives are shaped by family loss and a long-held dream.

Themes

Lost cities and hidden historiesDreams and ambitionFamily and lossViolence and the past

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Book overview

An epic fantasy about a mythic lost city and its dark past from National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy

The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around--and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared his dream chose poorly. Since he was just 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 form of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance or lose his dream forever.

What happened in Weep two hundred years ago to cut it off from the rest of the world? And who is the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo's dreams?

In this sweeping and breathtaking 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.

The answers await in Weep.
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