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Review

5 stars!

Amazing, thrilling, heartwrenching, beautiful and magical. Laini Taylor, you are a master storyteller and a genius with words!

I have no idea what to say about this book. Anything I could say won’t do it justice, and won’t mean a thing to those who haven’t read the incredible Strange the Dreamer, so if you haven’t read that one you need to get on it now! But let’s give this a try…

I loved coming back into Taylor’s fantasy world of gods and their children, of powers both wonderful and unspeakable, and of the conflict between humans and ‘gods’ that has defined all who live within it.

The gods had been dead for fifteen years, after all, but their hate had lingered, and ruled in their stead.

Picking up immediately where the first book left off, we are taken back to the city of Weep, following on from those final dramatic events that revealed the existence of the godspawn and changed everything for our hero, Lazlo Strange, and his love, Sarai.

“I would have chosen you, if they had let me choose.”

Entering a brand new, unexpected stage in their lives, Lazlo and Sarai’s story forms the centre of an exciting, surprising, captivating and emotional story that captured my heart and my imagination, and I got completely lost within this amazing world again.

“There comes a certain point with a hope or a dream, when you either give it up or give up everything else. And if you choose the dream, if you keep on going, then you can never quit, because it’s all you are.”

The book is written in multiple POVs, each character with their own storylines which are masterfully threaded together to create a comprehensive story that captures many sides of the conflict and paints a picture of an exciting, magical world, and the ordinary and extraordinary people that inhabit it. Shifting between the past and the present, secrets are uncovered, and all of the puzzle pieces come together as we finally learn the what, who, how and why of this magical tale.

“For an instant, at least, they seemed one and the same, as though all anguish exists in the same deep well, no matter what loss or misfortune leads us to it. We might be at odds, hate each other, and desired each other’s destruction, but in our despair, we are lost in the same darkness, breathing the same air as we choke on our grief.”

And OMG how I loved it!

The story is fascinating on its own, but Laini Taylor has a unique style of storytelling that is all her own that takes her books a step beyond what you would expect. Her writing is lyrical and creative, and completely takes you away as you feel every single word of it.

And OMG, the audiobook narration! Steve West does a phenomenal job creating voices that are so ‘right’ and inflections that bring this story to life in the best way. If you have the opportunity to listen to it, I highly recommend that you do!

I loved this book. It’s a fantastic conclusion to a unique and imaginative story that completely captured my heart, and it was everything and more than I was hoping it would be.

5 magical stars!

 

Strange the Dreamer