Is he evil? Was the good these characters created worth the bad things they had to do to achieve it?ģ. Minya is cruel, but how is she also heroic? Is Thyon evil? Eril-Fane killed babies. Many characters in Strange the Dreamer can be described as both heroic and villainous.

It’s just that when they do them, they call it justice” (page 372). Sarai says, “Good people do all the things bad people do, Lazlo. How does Lazlo’s life in books prepare him for his extraordinary journey and the world outside the library?Ģ. Lazlo spends his childhood and adolescence with his nose in books. Fall into a mythical world of dread and wonder, moths and nightmares, love and carnage.

In this sweeping and breathtaking new novel (the first book in a duology) 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.

And how did he dream her before he knew she existed? 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? Who is the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo’s dreams. 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. 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. 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.

Strange the dreamer duology