Laini Taylor’s Strange the Dreamer unfolds carefully, thoughtfully, methodically. You have to be patient to take it all in. Taylor’s writing is beautiful, and each character is so clearly defined.
Strange the Dreamer, by Laini Taylor
Tag: Fantasy
Six of Crows, by Leigh Bardugo
Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows feels like a delightfully wicked combination of what’s best about The Outsiders + Oceans 11 + The Last Airbender. But that still doesn’t really do justice to the amazing story, characters, and world Bardugo has created here.
The Cruel Prince, by Holly Black
I love how Holly Black doesn’t necessarily play by the rules. I see some calling her book The Cruel Prince a “dark” fantasy, and I would agree; people lie, people kill, people die. It gets messy. Wonderfully, deliciously messy.
Tess of the Road, by Rachel Hartman
It wasn’t until I finished Rachel Hartman’s Tess of the Road that I discovered this is actually a companion novel to two others written by Hartman (Seraphina, and Shadow Scale). This makes sense since my first reaction to this book was feeling like I had been dropped in the middle of a story, not the beginning of one.
The Bear and the Nightingale, by Katherine Arden
Katherine Arden’s The Bear and the Nightingale is a Russian fairy tale that requires an investment of your time and attention, but the payoff is so worth it! Arden painstakingly creates this world, the characters, the forest, the village, the home, the conflict – all of it, with such detail and ache and emotion.
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