SOS: Serious Overload of Series discussion

This is the discussion thread for our April BOM: Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor.

Some details you may wish to include in your discussion:
* How would rate the character development, originality, and action?
* What did you think of the world building?
* Did you have a favorite quote or scene?
* Would you recommend the book to others?
* Do you plan on reading the rest of the series?

I'm almost finished reading this book and love it. Anyone else?

I was blown away by Strange the Dreamer. Its my favourite book of the year so far! Such amazing writing, beautiful characters and so original.

Here is my review (spoiler free)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

A few of my favourite quotes (I seriously highlighted half of the book):
“You think good people can't hate?" she asked. "You think good people don't kill?"[...}"Good people do all the things bad people do, Lazlo. It's just that when they do them, they call it justice.”

“He looked him right in the eyes and saw a man who was great and good and human, who had done extraordinary things and terrible things and been broken and reassembled as a shell, only then to do the bravest thing of all: He had kept on living, though there are easier paths to take.”

“Love that sets forth the soul like springtime and ripens it like summer. Love as rarely exists in reality, as if a master alchemist has taken it and distilled out all the impurities, every petty disenchantment, every unworthy thought, into a perfect elixir, sweet and deep and all-consuming.”

“I think you're a fairy tale. I think you're magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story.”

I loved this book. The prose is so smooth and flows easily. Will definitely pick up more of her books.