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    Strange the Dreamer: he magical, masterfully-imaginative fantasy sensation from a Sunday Times bestselling author

    Laini Taylor

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    'Laini Taylor is so damn good and like no other' Leigh Bardugo

    The limited 5th Anniversary edition of the magical Sunday Times bestseller, by Laini Taylor, author of the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy.

    The dream chooses the dreamer.

    Since he was five years old, Lazlo Strange has been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to go in search of it. 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.

    What happened in Weep to cut it off from the world? What did the Godslayer slay that went by the name of god? And what is the mysterious problem he now seeks help in solving?

    The answers await in Weep, but so do many more mysteries - including the blue-skinned goddess who visits Lazlo's dreams . . .

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    A recipient of the Michael L. Printz Honor award for excellency in YA literature

    'Magical' Grazia

    'A stunning, sensory feast of a novel' Dail Mail

    'Leaves the reader enthralled, enchanted and entirely entranced' New York Journal of Books

    'The kind of story that paves dreams' Roshani Chokshi

    'Beautiful, unusual, unexpected' Sabaa Tahir

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    Praise for Strange the Dreamer

    • Laini Taylor's imagination is vivid - Financial Times

    • Stunning - Daily Mail

    • Enchanting - Publishers Weekly

    • Magical - Grazia

    • Leaves the reader enthralled, enchanted and entirely entranced - New York Journal of Books

    • This whimsical and diverse tale reads like a dream - Heat

    • Laini Taylor set my imagination on fire so hard that it spontaneously combusted . . . This is the kind of story that paves dreams

    • The love between Lazlo and Sarai . . . is touching and well-drawn. You share Lazlo's dreams of the of the beautiful world from his stories, and Sarai's understanding of (and horror of) their actions, and genuinely hope for the pair of them. - SFX

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    Laini Taylor is an award-winning, internationally bestselling author of fantasy books for teens, adults, and kids. Apart from the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, which has been translated into thirty-seven languages, she's known for Strange the Dreamer, Muse of Nightmares, the Dreamdark books, and Lips Touch. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, artist Jim Di Bartolo, daughter Clementine (also an artist), cats Witch and Hazel, and yeti Melvin. Her online writing community welcomes writers at all stages of their journeys.

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