Strange the Dreamer
Laini Taylor's Strange the Dreamer (2016) is a mythic fiction and adventure fiction novel. The story is set in Weep. It features Lazlo Strange and Godslayer. It deals with librarians, orphans, Epic and gods and godesses.
Open Library readers give it an average of 4.2 out of 5 from 9 ratings, and 80 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 18 editions. It appeared on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover bestseller list in 2017.
At about 536 pages, most readers finish it in 9–10 hours.
About Strange the Dreamer
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 braver 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.
Awards & lists
- 📰New York Times bestseller list — Young Adult Hardcover, 2017
Quick answers
Who wrote Strange the Dreamer?
Strange the Dreamer was written by Laini Taylor and first published in 2016.
What genre is Strange the Dreamer?
It is usually shelved as Myth & Legend Fiction and Adventure.
How long is Strange the Dreamer?
The median edition has 536 pages, about 9–10 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to Strange the Dreamer?
Readers who like it often enjoy The Lightning Thief, The Lost Hero and The Sea of Monsters.
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