She now lives happily ever after with her undead prince in a castle in the woods. She’s been brought back to life twice, and, with a single kiss, she woke her true love from eternal sleep.

I really hope to have more books set in the expanding universe Laini Taylor has created and maybe even make all her characters meet each other!įound in the forest when she was young, Laura Thalassa was raised by fairies, kidnapped by werewolves, and given over to vampires as repayment for a hundred year debt. And how, as Sarai wonders at the end of the book, if they will hopefully find SOMEONE to make a BODY for her! You know what that means if you've read the previous books! How the Angels began traveling through the worlds, like flipping the pages of a book until they met with the Devouring. Although what she does to Sarai and Lazlo at the beginning of the book is horrible.īut what made me love the series, even more, were the references to the Seraphim.

Ruby, Sparrow, and Feral were a delight to read as also Nero who also slowly found his own self-worth. The story picks up right from where it ended but also adding in a new narrative which, while it doesn't seem to connect at first with everything going on in the city of Weep, in the end it all resolves in a very tragic way. Fantastic world-building, unforgettable characters, a new dictionary to go through as also coded messages in the front and the back of the book.Īnd Lazlo, let's not forget my sweet blue boy! The epic ending to this duology had everything I love in a book by Laini Taylor.

Love and hate, revenge and redemption, destruction and salvation all clash in this astonishing and heart-stopping sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer. But is she? Sometimes, only the direst need can teach us our own depths, and Sarai, the Muse of Nightmares, has not yet discovered what she's capable of.Īs humans and godspawn reel in the aftermath of the citadel's near fall, a new foe shatters their fragile hopes, and the mysteries of the Mesarthim are resurrected: Where did the gods come from, and why? What was done with thousands of children born in the citadel nursery? And most important of all, as forgotten doors are opened and new worlds revealed: Must heroes always slay monsters, or is it possible to save them instead? Lazlo faces an unthinkable choice-save the woman he loves, or everyone else? -while Sarai feels more helpless than ever. One a god, the other a ghost, they struggle to grasp the new boundaries of their selves as dark-minded Minya holds them hostage, intent on vengeance against Weep. In the wake of tragedy, neither Lazlo nor Sarai are who they were before. She believed she knew every horror and was beyond surprise. Sarai has lived and breathed nightmares since she was six years old.

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