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Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

Laini Taylor

Start date: February 1, 2019

Finish date: February 28, 2019

Discussion: August 2025 Group Read

Discussion leader: Griselda

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Jan 07, 2021 Najila rated it really liked it

4 🌟! Ugh! That ending! ⁣
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⁣I have wanted to read Laini Taylor’s 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳 for so long and finally did so for January’s Buzzword 2021. The word for this month’s buzzword is “Dream.” And oh man what a book! I’m not a huge fan of fantasy but I do love LOTR series as well as GoT. And now I’m a fan of 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳 and can’t wait to read the next book (and I think final) in the series. ⁣
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⁣Lazlo Strange grew up an orphan, trained to be a monk, and became a librarian by chance. Obsesse ...more

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Dec 10, 2015 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: r2017-in-2017, all-time-favorites, fantasy-and-sci-fi, mythopoeic, gods-known-and-unknown, maybe

Lazlo felt as though the top of his head were open and the universe had dropped a lit match in. He understood in that moment that he was smaller than he had ever known, and the realm of the unknowable was bigger. So much bigger.

This was absolutely exquisite and beautiful! I'm struggling a bit with how to review it, I want to give just enough information to entice readers, but not so much as to ruin the delight of discovery as you read. Because this book is so much more enchanting than the ti ...more

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