Lin's Perspective

This is a book I read a long time ago when it first came out and I loved it. Last year I re-read it again and my feelings have not changed at all.

I still find it to be as magical as a book can be. The whole story, the characters and the writing are just to die for. Lazlo and Sarai are still some of my favourite fictional characters even Minya with her very complex, human-like nature is an amazing testimony of how good of a writer Taylor really is.

Laini’s penmanship is like no other at least in my opinion and in this book, it showed how lyrical and mesmerizing her writing can be. With a simple description, I was swept off my feet and transported into the world of Weep, the political issues, the hopes and love of those people, the despair and fears in some felt so real to me I could touch it.

The same, however, cannot be said about the Muse of Nightmares….

Albeit it pains me to admit it, I did not love the sequel as much as I expected to. The writing was still great, and everything, just plot-wise, felt flat, as if the whole story had been dragged on for too long without anything really happening. Too much dialogue, and not much of an action or anything else.

Like I said, I really enjoyed Minya, and her character development here was noticeable, we got to see a different side to her and many of the things she did and why were explained.

In conclusion, I do think that Strange the Dreamer was better left as a stand-alone novel, it had everything it was magic itself.