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Feb 21, 2024librarygoth rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
We love the mystical writing style and Lazlo, new favorite boy. *some spoilers ahead* I am a big fan of fantasy fiction. Give me a world where we have to build everything from the ground up: the terrain, the science, the cities, the…
May 01, 2023crimsonsparrow rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
MPA ratings: PG-13 for sensuality (prolonged, if not "graphic" sensuality) and brief sexuality PG for violence and sexual references
Dec 26, 2022litlawr rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Very poetic! I was totally entranced and couldn’t put the book down!
Oct 04, 2022IndyPL_SteveB rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Terrific first book of two. Creative and complex. The style of writing is such that anything I say is a spoiler, from the first chapter on. Laini Taylor really knows how to build a story. Every chapter sets up a mystery, and as the book…
Feb 19, 2022IndyPL_DonnaC rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Fantasy, mystery, a forgotten city, and a librarian dreamer. What's not to love? I did have a hard time getting into this one so I put it down for a while. I'm so glad I picked it back up. Taylor does a fantastic job of bringing the…
Feb 11, 2022sjpl_rebekah rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Magnificent title. Unforgettable characters. Staggeringly beautiful prose. This book had me hooked from start to finish. I could not have predicted all the directions this story goes in, as it was all utterly original. Couple that with a…
Feb 26, 2021svdeshmukh rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A story that gives the word magic a new meaning, Laini Taylor's Strange the Dreamer is a truly enchanting novel. Lazlo Strange is an orphan and librarian with an unusual fascination with the mystical city of Weep most believe to be a myth.…
Jan 18, 2021
As someone who does not often read YA, let alone YA fantasies, I was surprised at my ability to engage with this novel. I really enjoyed this authors writing style, and the world building was not super intense, but still descriptive. …
Nov 04, 20201234ravenmore rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Strange the Dreamer By Laini Taylor Strange the Dreamer is about an orphan who becomes a junior librarian and discovers this place called Weep. Eventually, he journeys half the world to get there. In all honesty, Strange the Dreamer…
Sep 16, 2020LPL_AdamL rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This book totally took me by surprise! I didn't expect to love it as much as I did, but the world-building, characters, and mythology were all so incredibly lush and intriguing, I couldn't help myself! Lazlo is one of the most delightful…
Jul 25, 2020WritingChick65 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Another fine effort by Taylor, Although I didn't enjoy it as much as the Daughter of Smoke and Bone series, I would still highly recommend it. Intelligent fantasy, labelled as a Teen read, but perfect for all the dreamers out there.…
Apr 02, 2020bookreader02 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Laini Taylor's Strange the Dreamer follows Lazlo Strange as he is thrust from his life as a Librarian to become an adventurer, traveling to the city of his dreams Weep. This high paced fantasy novel contains complex characters and settings…
Mar 28, 2020michaelwager rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Lazlo Strange, Junior Librarian at the Great Library of Zosma, raised as an orphan in a monastery, has always dreamed of the mysterious city of Weep, which has had no contact with the outside world for 200 years. When Eril Fane the…
Jul 20, 2019dstradling rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
The first half of this book really gripped me. Unfortunately the typical YA love story snuck its way in just as I began to believe that I would be free of it for this story. It took away from the rest of the plot in my opinion. I came to…
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Jul 20, 2019kelly_williams rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I read this book because it was on the finalist list of YALSA's top ten. I fell in love with Laini Taylor's writing style almost immediately; I was drawn to her characters as if they were my own flesh and blood. I streaked through this…
Jul 08, 2019ArapahoeTiegan rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
What a beautiful world Laini Taylor has created in this novel! I could not get enough - every description was so vivid I just had to keep devouring it. I seriously could almost see everything described as if I was also able to walk through…
Jun 21, 2019lola_jane rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Lazlo Strange, orphan and junior librarian has always been fascinated with books about the lost city of Weep. Everyone around him dismisses him as a dreamer, until the day a hero of Weep rides into the city and chooses Lazlo to accompany…
Mar 18, 2019ReadingAdviser_Jacque rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I loved this book! A great novel that establishes a strange world and some strange characters who you're immediately hooked on! A really great hero's journey following a bookish dreamer on an adventure unlike any other. A really fantastic…
Mar 05, 2019JCLJoshN rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I love fantasy stories that are lush and strange. This novel is wonderfully, lyrically, eerily lush, and "strange" is right there in the title. And the protagonist it's named for is a librarian, so extra goodness for me. Creepy gods,…
Mar 02, 2019happycanuck rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
First time reading this author and find her style and abilities amazing. Unusual plot. What's not to like ?
Feb 20, 2019bogwolf rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
World building was lovely- but.. I remember reading - what, a decade ago perhaps - Kerr's first "Children of the Lamp" book; it hit me that we were going to get a large number of kids beneath the stairs turning out to be wizards, and kids…
Jan 22, 2019Futuregohangurl rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
a very good book. i now have book 2 and just have to have the time to read it. its alittle hard to get into but once you're into these books they are excellent
Jan 01, 2019GuyN rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Laini Taylor never disappoints those seeking imaginative fantasy. This is the first book of two volume story. It introduces us to most of the characters in a complex world. Those we meet have different origins, powers and limitations,…
Oct 31, 2018Lady_Librarian rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
After re-reading this book I like it even more. Laini Taylor's writing style is so good! I highly recommend picking up this series and her previous series, Daughter of Smoke & Bones. I've already read the second book in the series and it…
Oct 24, 2018sbridge48 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I was all set to praise this book as one of the 3-4 best single volume (not part of a series) fantasies I had ever read - until I got to the ending and found that it would be the first of two books! (The author confesses in the afterword…