Ever so rarely do books come into my life and completely take hold of my heart. Ever so rarely do I find authors with such great and complete control of our beautifully vast language that I lose all sense of time and self. Laini Taylor's Strange the Dreamer is one of those rare books, full of magic and truth and heart. Lazlo Strange is Strange the Dreamer. His origins are mysterious, as is his passion for the city of Weep. There are not a lot of records of the this city, and even the name "Weep" is a placeholder because its real name has been lost - stolen. Lazlo spends every moment - waking and sleeping - thinking about the city, dreaming of finding it. When a man called the Godslayer comes to Lazlo's homeland of Zosma, he presents Lazlo with the opportunity of a lifetime: to come to Weep, because it needs to be saved. Immediately, Laini Taylor draws readers into this amazing world, starting with the harrowing image of an unfortunate girl's public death. N