YA Addicted Book Club discussion

The winner of the November read is

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 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 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 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?

The answers await in Weep, but so do more mysteries—including the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo’s dreams. How did he dream her before he knew she existed? And if all the gods are dead, why does she seem so real?

Welcome to Weep.

Who is in for this one?

I'm definitely going to try to join in for this one, if my hectic Uni work schedule allows for it!

Great Jo.
I’m a bit apprehensive about this one tbh. I didn’t like Laini Taylor’s other books 🙈🙈🙈

I liked Daughter of Smoke and Bone. I wasn't keen on the sequel, but my friend loved this book and we have very similar tastes, so hopefully it should be good.

I may give it a go then. I also liked DoSaB but didn’t finish the series as I didn’t like the second one.

Yeah the second one isn't great. I will probably finish the series because I don't like to leave things unfinished, but I was kind of disappointed with the story in the second one.

If I can find time and get a copy from the library ill join. Havent read anything by the author so no opinion either way for me.

You'll have to let me know if you do Jo. I won't finish it as I don't continue reading something if I'm not enjoying it. It puts me in a rut.

If I do, it won't be till next summer, since I can't manage 500+ page books during the Uni semester (I'm making an exception for Kingdom of Ash!), it's too much of a time commitment. Fair enough!

I read this last month! It's absolutely amazing! I hope you all enjoy it!

I’ve been trying to read this book for about two months (I only got to chapter 3) but because of college I haven’t had any time or motivation. But assignments and things seem to be going at a more steady pace now, so hopefully I’ll have the time to read this book this month! It’s just frustrating that even though I have more time, I’m still in a really big reading slump

Sophie, I hope you manage to get out of the reading slump. Reading slumps are just the worst.

Im on the wait list for it at the library so I may or may not get to it. Anyone reading it?

I don't think I'm going to get to it, I don't have as much time to read as I'd like to at the moment with all my end of semester assignments.

As soon as you get a chance to, I highly recommend reading it! It is so amazingly written and such a great story. It does start a little slow, so don't be disheartened!

I REALLY enjoyed this one - is it just a duology or planning to be a trilogy!?

I haven't managed to get a hold of it either.

I'm thinking of giving the group read a miss in December and then rejigging it and restarting it properly in the new year. Thoughts?

Wouldn't be opposed. I haven't really been able to join in much the last few months because of my workload.

As it took me forever to get a copy I only read it recently. Thought the world was incredible and the writing beautiful but it was missing something. Wasn't completely engaged with the characters. Not sure what happened. It was also very slow for the first 2/3rds of the story. I will read book 2 though.