#29 in Young adult
Strange the Dreamer
- 544
- Pages
- about 10 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Strange the Dreamer” is lush, imaginative YA fantasy in which the dreaming matters as much as the quest. Its hero, an orphaned librarian who joins an expedition to a lost city, sees the world with an inventiveness that is the book’s chief pleasure, and there is brutality beside the beauty. With 544 pages and a story that continues in a second volume, it rewards unhurried reading.
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About the book
Strange the Dreamer is a 2017 young adult fantasy novel written by American author Laini Taylor and the first in the Strange the Dreamer duology, followed by Muse of Nightmares. The story follows Lazlo Strange, a war orphan and librarian in the world of Zosma who undergoes an expedition to the mystic lost city of Weep but discovers it is more than he believed it to be. It was published on March 28, 2017 by Little, Brown Books.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.5 across 443 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 75% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Young adult average of 7.8. That is how 8.3 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.4 | 9 | 2% |
| Hardcover | 8.5 | 434 | 98% |
Frequently asked
What age is Strange the Dreamer for?
Strange the Dreamer sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 544 pages — longer than 52% of the ranked books in Young adult.
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