Then, he finally gets confirmation that the Unseen City is very real and very much in need of help. He grows up, and moves locations, but the mystery city is always on his mind. I truly believe the best way to go into this book is blind, I wouldn't even read the synopsis, but the basic premise of this story is that we are introduced to an orphan, who has always been ostracized for being different, and he is constantly dreaming of the Unseen City that everyone else has long forgotten. “Two hundred years ago, there was a storm.” Just throw my 2017 anticipation list away, because Strange the Dreamer was all I needed this year. Not A Court of Wings and Ruin, not Tyrant's Throne, not Skullsworn, not All the Crooked Saints, not The Chosen, not anything. I don't see how anything I'll read in 2017 can beat this. Yet, this book feels unratable, because how do you rate perfection instead of just feeling at a loss of words because of its awe? This book is so much greater than five stars. In fact, the last time I felt this was back in 2015 with The Name of the Wind, and the same feeling of guilt from giving other books five star ratings is here again. This isn't the type of book to come around often. The feeling while reading this is indescribable, but the closest word choice would have to be pure bliss. This is that rare type of book that, while reading, is a constant reminder of why you fell in love with reading in the first place. “On the second Sabbat of Twelfthmoon, in the city of Weep, a girl fell from the sky. The feeling whil Have you ever loved a book so much that it completely fills your soul, warms your heart, and heals your broken pieces? Her skin was blue, her blood was red.” This is that rare type of book that, while reading, is a constant reminder of why you fell in love with reading in the first place. Have you ever loved a book so much that it completely fills your soul, warms your heart, and heals your broken pieces? Because that's Strange the Dreamer. How did he dream her before he knew she existed? And if all the gods are dead, why does she seem so real? The answers await in Weep, but so do more mysteries-including the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo’s dreams. 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? And what is the mysterious problem he now seeks help in solving? 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 or 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. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the pers 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. 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.
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