All of these qualities are brilliantly on display in Muse of Nightmares, a story both more intimate and more enormously grand than Strange the Dreamer, but with every drop of its intricate magic. This kind of confluence is where Taylor again proves her status as one of the strongest, most fluid, and best emotionally-tuned writers working in speculative fiction today. It is devastating and beautiful at once, and a fitting encapsulation of a book that tackles almost incomprehensibly great problems with the intimacy and care of… well, a dream. But by this central point, characters new and old have swept together on the tide of fate ideas and prejudices, loves and hates ricochet and reproduce with incredible consequences.

She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, illustrator Jim Di Bartolo, and their daughter, Clementine.In Muse of Nightmares, that point is one of breathtaking confluence near the middle of a story that begins perhaps slightly too slowly.

Taylor's other works include the Dreamdark books: Blackbringer and Silksinger, and the National Book Award finalist Lips Touch: Three Times. Taylor is also the author of the global sensation the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy and the companion novella Night of Cake & Puppets. Laini Taylor is the New York Times bestselling author of the Printz Honor Book Strange the Dreamer and its sequel, Muse of Nightmares. Love and hate, revenge and redemption, destruction and salvation all clash in this gorgeous 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.

For fans of Leigh Bardugo and Neil Gaiman comes the highly anticipated thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer, from National Book Award Finalist Laini Taylor.

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