Strange the Dreamer

De: Laini Taylor

Narrado por: Steve West

From National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor comes an epic fantasy about a mythic lost city and its dark past.

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 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.

Reseñas de la Crítica

A NPR Best Book A Goodreads Best YA Fantasy and Science Fiction NomineeA Boston Globe Best YA BookA Popcrush Best Young Adult BookA Popsugar Best Book for Women A Booklist Editors' Choice An A.V. Club Favorite Book A Tor Top Young Adult SFF BookA Christian Science Monitor Best Book A B&N Teen Blog Best Young Adult Book A Forever Young Adult Best Book

"Laini Taylor is so damn good and like no other."—Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom

"Laini Taylor set my imagination on fire so hard that it spontaneously combusted...This is the kind of story that paves dreams."—p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times}Roshani Chokshi, author of The Star Touched Queen

"[A] must-read YA!"—p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times}USA Today

"Part adventure novel, part romance and part exercise in epic myth-building, it's gorgeously written and full of surprises."—NPR

"[One of] our favorite books of the year!"—p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times}Popsugar

"An epic world of gods, moths and nightmares; a world where the dream chooses the dreamer."—p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times}Justine Magazine

"Weighty as a nightmare and as transportive as the finest of fantasy, Laini Taylor's new novel will leave readers with miracles on their minds."—p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times}Hypable

* "Gorgeously written in language simultaneously dark, lush, and enchanting, the book will leave readers eager for the next."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

* "...Characters are carefully, exquisitely crafted, the writing is achingly lovely, and the world is utterly real...This is a thing to be savored."—Booklist, starred review

* "[Strange the Dreamer] has all the rich, evocative imagery and complex world-building typical of Taylor's best work. This outstanding fantasy is a must-purchase for all YA collections."—School Library Journal, starred review

* "The luxurious prose and complex world building invites and rewards slow reading....Here readers will find characters to love and ones to hate and, ultimately, a world to be willingly lost in."—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

* [Readers] will dive into Taylor's gorgeous prose and brilliant imagery and relish this story about dreams, love, monsters, gods, ghosts, war, and alchemy. Told from alternating points of view, this is complex but satisfying, a story about cultures meeting and clashing."—VOYA, starred review

excellent

Now that's a story. entertaining, beautiful, characters you want to root for. Just be aware that it's a "to be continued " that will leave you hanging.

EVERYTHING AND MORE

Rich and sprawling and beautiful, reads like a fairy tale in the desert and in the sky!

An Excellent, Moving Fable

This fairy tale has a beautiful balance of dark and light, with rich characters and a cliffhanger ending. Looking forward to the sequel.

I'd listen to this again

Well written, I thought and full of interesting ideas. I adored the author's ability to paint pictures with his language and the choice for a narrator is just right for this book as his voice is sometimes so still, it doesn't interrupt the visual images the author is evoking.. If seems somewhat like a dream/fairy tale for adults, ebbing and flowing.

Laini Taylor does it again!

The voice of the reader is everything I would have imagined Lazlos voice to be! I also lose my self in Laini's story's and unlike any other author before her my mind paints and my body feels what she tells it too with her words. Wonder, flavors, emotions and the elements are all experienced. The first part of Lazlo and Saria's story is a whirlwind of discovery and young love. It is magic and mayhem. Worth every minute of your time. I can not recommend it enough!

Beautiful story and world

I truly enjoyed this book. The world the writer creates is beautiful and vivid. Can’t wait to start the second one!

😍😍😍

Loved every moment. Incredible story, great characters and the narrator is amazing. Highly recommend this one.

Completely ORIGINAL

I have never read a novel So ORIGINAL than Strange the Dreamer! Usually, books with so many intricate story plots, kind of spiral out and really don’t come to a full close, BUT THIS, this had me hanging on the edge of my seat! I love how it ended so I could get excited about the 2nd novel that continues the story. Downloading it now!

Dark and Dreamy

First off, Steve West is a brilliant reader, you're going to enjoy listening to him.

This novel started off strangely …hehe, there's a bit of a learning curve, and the plot isn't apparent immediately, but only a few hours in I was hooked. A dark story of young adults with tentative ties to the supernatural, this doesn't read like YA. And with a villain that by the end had me feeling like Doloroes Umbridge was reincarnated, this story is worth the time to learn the world.

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Brilliant

Absolutely Amazing! I loved it! A must read! Now I will have to read the others in the series! Cannot wait!