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Laini Taylor is the New York Times bestselling author of the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy: Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Days of Blood & Starlight, and Dreams of Gods & Monsters, and the companion novella A Night of Cake & Puppets. She is also the author of the Dreamdark books Blackbringer and Silksinger; the National Book Award finalist Lips Touch: Three Times; and Strange the Dreamer. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, illustrator Jim Di Bartolo, and their daughter Clementine.
A NPR Best Book A Goodreads Best YA Fantasy and Science Fiction NomineeA Boston Globe Best YA BookA Popcrush Best Young Adult BookA Popsugar Best Book for Women A Booklist Editors' Choice An A.V. Club Favorite Book A Tor Top Young Adult SFF BookA Christian Science Monitor Best Book A B&N Teen Blog Best Young Adult Book A Forever Young Adult Best Book Weighty as a nightmare and as transportive as the finest of fantasy, Laini Taylor's new novel will leave readers with miracles on their minds. -- Hypable An epic world of gods, moths and nightmares; a world where the dream chooses the dreamer. -- Justine Magazine [One of] our favorite books of the year! -- Popsugar Part adventure novel, part romance and part exercise in epic myth-building, it's gorgeously written and full of surprises. --NPR [A] must-read YA! -- USA Today Laini Taylor set my imagination on fire so hard that it spontaneously combusted...This is the kind of story that paves dreams. -- Roshani Chokshi, author of The Star Touched Queen Boston Globe's Best Book of the Year The language is rich. --School Library Connection Laini Taylor is so damn good and like no other. --Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom * [Readers] will dive into Taylor's gorgeous prose and brilliant imagery and relish this story about dreams, love, monsters, gods, ghosts, war, and alchemy. Told from alternating points of view, this is complex but satisfying, a story about cultures meeting and clashing. --VOYA, starred review * Gorgeously written in language simultaneously dark, lush, and enchanting, the book will leave readers eager for the next. --Publishers Weekly, starred review * -The luxurious prose and complex world building invites and rewards slow reading....Here readers will find characters to love and ones to hate and, ultimately, a world to be willingly lost in.---Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books * -[Strange the Dreamer] has all the rich, evocative imagery and complex world-building typical of Taylor's best work. This outstanding fantasy is a must-purchase for all YA collections.---School Library Journal, starred review * -...Characters are carefully, exquisitely crafted, the writing is achingly lovely, and the world is utterly real...This is a thing to be savored.---Booklist, starred review * The luxurious prose and complex world building invites and rewards slow reading....Here readers will find characters to love and ones to hate and, ultimately, a world to be willingly lost in. --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books [Laini Taylor] has spun another mesmerizing tale with captivating twists and turns, an array of intriguing characters, strange and beautiful language, and baroque flourishes of the imagination. --Horn Book Lovers of intricate worldbuilding and feverish romance will find this enthralling. --Kirkus Reviews * [Strange the Dreamer] has all the rich, evocative imagery and complex world-building typical of Taylor's best work. This outstanding fantasy is a must-purchase for all YA collections. --School Library Journal, starred review * .. .Characters are carefully, exquisitely crafted, the writing is achingly lovely, and the world is utterly real...This is a thing to be savored. --Booklist, starred review Gorgeously written in language simultaneously dark, lush, and enchanting, the book will leave readers eager for the next. --Publishers Weekly, starred review
