Laini Taylor

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...

"The otherworldly Karou struggles to come to terms with who and what she is, and how far she'll go to avenge her people"--

"As 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"--

A breathtaking new novel by National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer is a story full of alchemy and blood candy, nightmares and godspawn, moths and monsters, friendship and treachery, love and carnage. "Starred Review."--Booklist "Starred Review."--Publishers Weekly

Three short stories about kissing, featuring elements of the supernatural.

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