--- product_id: 64173849 title: "Strange the Dreamer" price: "R$269" currency: BRL in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.br/products/64173849-strange-the-dreamer store_origin: BR region: Brazil --- # Strange the Dreamer **Price:** R$269 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Strange the Dreamer - **How much does it cost?** R$269 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.br](https://www.desertcart.com.br/products/64173849-strange-the-dreamer) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description From National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor comes an epic fantasy about a mythic lost city and its dark past. The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around--and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared his dream chose poorly. Since he was just five years old, he's been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the form of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance or lose his dream forever. What happened in Weep two hundred years ago to cut it off from the rest of the world? And who is the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo's dreams? In this sweeping and breathtaking novel by National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of the New York Times bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, the shadow of the past is as real as the ghosts who haunt the citadel of murdered gods. Fall into a mythical world of dread and wonder, moths and nightmares, love and carnage. The answers await in Weep. Review: really loved this. I loved in it a way that ... - I just... really loved this. I loved in it a way that I am pretty sure means that it has somehow seeped into my soul and become part of me. This book is a fairy tale. Not in the sense that it is a traditional story with familiar elements. If a fantasy world somehow had its own myths and legends and somehow those stories were published into a book that book would be Strange the Dreamer. This book is the story of a shy young orphan boy who grows into a young junior librarian. The name of a strange city that was cut off from the rest of the world 200 years ago is suddenly lost. From one minute to the next and for no reason that anyone can name the whole world forgot it and so it comes to be known as Weep. Lazlo becomes obsessed with the city, and its fate. It is also about a young blue girl goddess who is growing up in hiding with her siblings. Lazlo is an interesting character. He is an introverted, even shy, male. Many of his qualities are traditionally feminine. He isn't powerful, rich, or handsome. He can't fight and sometimes is a victim. While reading this book made me very aware that there are still certain things that we expect from different genders especially in fantasy. Lazlo isn't dangerous. He never holds a sword. He is the dreamer of the title. His strength is internal and hidden away from the world. He doesn't have to be the big man to be the hero. He is content with being the hero of his own life rather than the hero of the world. I loved that Liani Taylor let that happen. There is a love story. It is central to the story but doesn't take over the story. You know how sometimes in romance there is a secondary couple? I usually like that couple more than the main couple because their love doesn't have to have the predictability of the main couple. The love story in Strange the Dreamer feels like that except it is also satisfactorily filled out. Fantasy is all about world building. Adult fantasy can get bogged down with this and sometimes YA fantasy hardly bothers with it. This book hits the perfect balance. The world is understandable and real, but the focus on the story is still on the characters and not in the world. I loved the writing. There are authors that you want to just get on with the story and writers that you want to describe every sounds, sight, and emotion. Liani Taylor is definitely the latter for me. She paints with words. There is some amazingly beautiful, disturbing, and powerful imagery in this book. For example, there is a statue floating a hundred feet off the ground the size of a mountain, the shadow of which covers an entire city. Strange the Dreamer is the first book of a duology. That is both the bad news and the good news. The good news is that we are going to be able to visit this world and these characters again. This prospect warms my heart and fills me with glee. The bad news is the wait. I don't have it in my hands at this moment, and that means that I have had to wait too long to start reading it. Unacceptable. Highly recommended. Review: A little slow in the middle, but beautifully written - Lazlo Strange is a young librarian who is obsessed with the lost city of Weep. The day the heroic Godslayer shows up from the city of Weep is the day Lazlo always dreamed about. The Godslayer is looking for people to join him to help him solve a problem Weep is facing. With limited details and no useful skills, Lazlo is desperate to join the small group of people headed to Weep, and convinces the Godslayer to bring him along. What ensues is a journey that Lazlo won’t soon forget. Why did Weep disappear two hundred years ago, what is the problem that needs to be solved, and who is the girl named Sarai that keeps showing up in his dreams…and why is she blue? I’d heard so many rave reviews about Strange the Dreamer, that I decided to pick it up (the gorgeous cover didn’t hurt) and I’m so glad I did! Lazlo is the most innocent little button, and I wanted to shield him from the nastiness of the world for the first half of the book. Ha! I love that he works in a library and has a love of books and storytelling, and I immediately connected with him as a character. Strange the Dreamer was unlike any other YA or fantasy book I’ve read. The story of Weep was so unique to me, and I loved that it was told in both Lazlo’s perspective as well as Sarai’s perspective. Often, I’m not a huge fan of books that have multiple POV’s because they can get confusing, but this one worked perfectly and added a lot to the background of the story. This book had it all – beautiful writing, wonderful storytelling, developed characters, action, and romance, and it far surpassed my expectations. I’m eagerly anticipating the next book in the series so I can see what happens next! I loved the way the first book ended. I felt like it made enough progress in the story to where I didn’t feel like I wasted my time reading a 500 page book where nothing happened, but ended at a point where a second book makes sense. It’s been a very long time since a book made me cry, but this one had tears streaming down my face! The writing was flowy and lyrical, and I really enjoyed reading the book. This was a 4 star read for me, and I recommend that all fans of YA Fantasy pick this one up! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #49,184 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #91 in Teen & Young Adult Epic Fantasy #103 in Teen & Young Adult Paranormal Romance #184 in Teen & Young Adult Fantasy Action & Adventure | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 8,386 Reviews | ## Images ![Strange the Dreamer - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91navCazShL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ really loved this. I loved in it a way that ... *by T***A on September 16, 2017* I just... really loved this. I loved in it a way that I am pretty sure means that it has somehow seeped into my soul and become part of me. This book is a fairy tale. Not in the sense that it is a traditional story with familiar elements. If a fantasy world somehow had its own myths and legends and somehow those stories were published into a book that book would be Strange the Dreamer. This book is the story of a shy young orphan boy who grows into a young junior librarian. The name of a strange city that was cut off from the rest of the world 200 years ago is suddenly lost. From one minute to the next and for no reason that anyone can name the whole world forgot it and so it comes to be known as Weep. Lazlo becomes obsessed with the city, and its fate. It is also about a young blue girl goddess who is growing up in hiding with her siblings. Lazlo is an interesting character. He is an introverted, even shy, male. Many of his qualities are traditionally feminine. He isn't powerful, rich, or handsome. He can't fight and sometimes is a victim. While reading this book made me very aware that there are still certain things that we expect from different genders especially in fantasy. Lazlo isn't dangerous. He never holds a sword. He is the dreamer of the title. His strength is internal and hidden away from the world. He doesn't have to be the big man to be the hero. He is content with being the hero of his own life rather than the hero of the world. I loved that Liani Taylor let that happen. There is a love story. It is central to the story but doesn't take over the story. You know how sometimes in romance there is a secondary couple? I usually like that couple more than the main couple because their love doesn't have to have the predictability of the main couple. The love story in Strange the Dreamer feels like that except it is also satisfactorily filled out. Fantasy is all about world building. Adult fantasy can get bogged down with this and sometimes YA fantasy hardly bothers with it. This book hits the perfect balance. The world is understandable and real, but the focus on the story is still on the characters and not in the world. I loved the writing. There are authors that you want to just get on with the story and writers that you want to describe every sounds, sight, and emotion. Liani Taylor is definitely the latter for me. She paints with words. There is some amazingly beautiful, disturbing, and powerful imagery in this book. For example, there is a statue floating a hundred feet off the ground the size of a mountain, the shadow of which covers an entire city. Strange the Dreamer is the first book of a duology. That is both the bad news and the good news. The good news is that we are going to be able to visit this world and these characters again. This prospect warms my heart and fills me with glee. The bad news is the wait. I don't have it in my hands at this moment, and that means that I have had to wait too long to start reading it. Unacceptable. Highly recommended. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A little slow in the middle, but beautifully written *by F***S on November 5, 2017* Lazlo Strange is a young librarian who is obsessed with the lost city of Weep. The day the heroic Godslayer shows up from the city of Weep is the day Lazlo always dreamed about. The Godslayer is looking for people to join him to help him solve a problem Weep is facing. With limited details and no useful skills, Lazlo is desperate to join the small group of people headed to Weep, and convinces the Godslayer to bring him along. What ensues is a journey that Lazlo won’t soon forget. Why did Weep disappear two hundred years ago, what is the problem that needs to be solved, and who is the girl named Sarai that keeps showing up in his dreams…and why is she blue? I’d heard so many rave reviews about Strange the Dreamer, that I decided to pick it up (the gorgeous cover didn’t hurt) and I’m so glad I did! Lazlo is the most innocent little button, and I wanted to shield him from the nastiness of the world for the first half of the book. Ha! I love that he works in a library and has a love of books and storytelling, and I immediately connected with him as a character. Strange the Dreamer was unlike any other YA or fantasy book I’ve read. The story of Weep was so unique to me, and I loved that it was told in both Lazlo’s perspective as well as Sarai’s perspective. Often, I’m not a huge fan of books that have multiple POV’s because they can get confusing, but this one worked perfectly and added a lot to the background of the story. This book had it all – beautiful writing, wonderful storytelling, developed characters, action, and romance, and it far surpassed my expectations. I’m eagerly anticipating the next book in the series so I can see what happens next! I loved the way the first book ended. I felt like it made enough progress in the story to where I didn’t feel like I wasted my time reading a 500 page book where nothing happened, but ended at a point where a second book makes sense. It’s been a very long time since a book made me cry, but this one had tears streaming down my face! The writing was flowy and lyrical, and I really enjoyed reading the book. This was a 4 star read for me, and I recommend that all fans of YA Fantasy pick this one up! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fabulous Masculist Romantic Fantasy *by G***T on July 25, 2017* In this novel, Laini Taylor aggressively shatters male stereotypes, and as someone who opposes gender discrimination, I love that. The male hero is a librarian turned secretary. He’s not physically attractive or muscular. He has a crooked nose, in fact, because it broke after a book fell on it from a library shelf. He’s been cast into a low socioeconomic class, so he’s poor and has no apparent economic prospects. His expertise is fairy tales. His passion is an area of learning that the scholars of his day consider dead. He’s selfless and service-oriented. He can’t help but show concern for others even if they don’t appreciate it or reciprocate. He’s utterly without ego, cooperating instead of competing. His greatest strengths are dreaming and loving. He doesn’t try to dominate any woman or man around him. He isn’t a professional killer, or in a profession that involves killing, or violence, nor is he driven to slay, or even prone to occasional, angry outbursts. He doesn’t drink or roughhouse, or think a great night out involves harassing women at bars. He isn’t trying to become wealthy through some impressive, high-flying career that might not actually accomplish much for the world, the way the novel’s Sisyphean alchemist is. Lazlo, in fact, tries to help another man become wealthy without expecting anything in return, specifically because he knows how much stress the pressure to “succeed” has produced in this acquaintance. So you should like Lazlo, right? He’s a great guy. He works diligently to protect and advance the bank of scholarship which serves society and provides it with hope. If he’s poor, it’s because others created a class, put him in it, and are trying to keep him there. He’s ever helpful and polite, doesn’t beat anyone or get into fights, and never stabs anyone in the back. The novel's heroine comes to love this man by entering his dreams. That is to say, she learns who he is on the inside, and discovers that his inner world is far more appealing than her outer one. That’s why their relationship grows into love before they ever physically touch. Lazlo may be contrasted with the character of his lover’s father, a testosterone-filled warrior who fought bravely for his people, and who committed atrocities in doing so that caused him to be estranged from his own daughter. Outwardly, he appears strong, brave, noble, and heroic, if repressed and a tad rough around the edges. In reality, his past experiences have left him broken and ruined inside. He is a tormented shell of the man he might have been had he approached life in a different way. This is healthy fare, then, for men thinking about who they are and what their values should be, and for women thinking about interacting with men and what makes for a good man. Wherever you may come down on these matters as a reader, there is plenty to consider, because in the end Lazlo is revealed as a complex person who demonstrates as much genuine heroism as any hero in literature. Strange the Dreamer is categorized as a young adult novel, but it’s suitable for adults of any age. The lovers are Lazlo and Sarai. Lazlo is the main character, but it did not surprise me to learn that Laini Taylor originally envisioned a different main character for this book, and presumably that was Sarai. Sarai is the daughter of the Goddess of Despair and of a human man whom the goddess raped. The author stresses that one cannot learn about strangers by looking at them; Sarai has the gift of being able to look inside them, and it is this which drives the story, so I can see why Sarai would have made a compelling main character. Personally, I happen to love complex supernatural characters, so I am sure I would have liked that. But I think Ms. Taylor had to shift the focus more to Lazlo, because some of the most entrancing and beautiful parts of the book take place inside his dreams, where Sarai is a visitor. So instead of focusing on the trials and tribulations of a supernatural being whose existence is altered when an unusual human appears, this is presented more as the story of a man’s gradual self-realization and personal growth. I can also see why the author expanded the book, which she initially planned as a standalone novel, to a duology; having created a world so beautiful, one would want to allow one's readers to linger in it. That is, after all, one of the reasons why we sometimes choose to read an extended story when we could have watched a two-hour film or seen a television show. I would advise you not to worry if it initially feels like you’re not following the story. Go with the flow as in a dream, and you'll be rewarded as the events and characters coalesce and the story becomes clearer. Then you won’t want to put the book down. The novel has a certain Romeo and Juliet-esque quality in that the lovers become progressively divorced from their own societies as they grow closer to one another. There are strong messages about control and freedom; the more certain characters seek to control others, the more rapidly the social orders upon which their control depends erode. This leads to some satisfaction as certain selfish or dysfunctional characters get their comeuppances, but it produces a running tension generated by hatred on both sides which goes unresolved. There are clear messages about the futility of ongoing conflict, war, and hate, as contrasted with the transcendence (and sometimes the tragedy) of love. The author goes out of her way not to trivialize death, and characters do not die for entertainment in this novel. Death has consequences, and the consequences play a major role. Naturally, dreams also play a major role: When societies collide, whose dreams control? Who dreams whom, and why, and how? This is a “Western society-meets-other society” fantasy, so as I was reading, it called to my mind the Adventures of Esplandián, the myth of El Dorado, and tales of the Fountain of Youth in which Europeans invented fairy tale creatures and fanciful places while pondering life beyond the horizon. Initially, Lazlo is destined to be a monk, presumably within Christendom, but as he heads east he encounters a polytheistic world. The pantheon there is complicated. Deities have their ups and downs, and strengths and weaknesses. The eastern city is enmeshed in an ancient conflict which seems incapable of resolution. Its populations live in close proximity, but separately, and look upon one other with mutual hostility stemming from horrific events they experienced during early conquests. In this respect the fantasy has a clear basis in reality, providing food for thought and reflection. The neglected city that Lazlo is driven to see for himself has been stricken by the Goddess of Oblivion, who has devoured its name. Now that no one can remember the city's name, its people call it Weep. This resonates with me in the context of colliding cultures, where conquerors have often sought to erase indigenous societies and cast them into oblivion. Again, what happens to the dreams of the invaded? My favorite quote from this novel encapsulates much of what it is ultimately about: “For what [are people] but the sum of all the scraps of their memor[ies] and experience[s]: a finite set of components with an infinite array of expressions[?]” In Strange the Dreamer, personalities are malleable, dreams are strange, strange is good, and the passions and obsessions that spring from our dreams are our destinies, not our choice. ## Frequently Bought Together - Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, 1) - Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer, 2) - Daughter of Smoke & Bone: The Complete Gift Set --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.br/products/64173849-strange-the-dreamer](https://www.desertcart.com.br/products/64173849-strange-the-dreamer) --- *Product available on Desertcart Brazil* *Store origin: BR* *Last updated: 2026-05-20*