{"id":82935,"date":"2018-09-06T15:06:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T04:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=82935"},"modified":"2018-09-06T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T04:07:00","slug":"laini-taylor-muse-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2018\/09\/06\/laini-taylor-muse-nightmares\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"laini<\/a>Muse of Nightmares<\/strong>
\nby Laini Taylor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review by Sarah McDuling<\/strong><\/p>\n

I knew this book would be amazing. Everything Laini Taylor writes is amazing. Her books are like shimmering miracles full of magic and mystery. She is like some kind of mystical\u00a0sorceress of words and wonders! If that sounds like hyperbole to you, let me issue a simple challenge –<\/p>\n

Pick up any one of Laini Taylor\u2019s books, flip it open to literally any page and read a few sentences. You\u2019ll see what I mean when I call her a \u2018mystical sorceress\u00a0of words and wonders\u2019. No-one writes gorgeous, otherworldly, phantasmagorical fantasy quite like Laini Taylor.<\/p>\n

Strange the Dreamer<\/em><\/a> was one of the best books I read last year. If you haven\u2019t yet read it, maybe now would be the time to stop reading this review of the sequel? Fair warning, I\u2019m about about to get mildly spoiler-ish vis-a-vis the ending of Strange the Dreamer<\/em> \u2026.<\/p>\n

The ending of\u00a0that book was so unbearably, tortuously painful!! Am I right?!? The way Laini Taylor left readers hanging at the dramatic conclusion of\u00a0Strange the Dreamer<\/em><\/a> should really be illegal. I was so worried for Lazlo and Sarai (oh my beautiful, beloved Lazlo and Sarai!) and so desperate to find out how they were going to deal with the horrific turn of events that left me literally weeping at the conclusion. Thank God this is a duology and not a trilogy because I don\u2019t think I would have survived another cliffhanger like the one at the end of Strange the Dreamer<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Muse of Nightmares<\/em><\/a> brings is story to a glorious and satisfying conclusion. To all my fellow fans of Strange the Dreamer<\/em><\/a> I can confidently say Muse of Nightmares<\/em> will give you absolutely everything you hoped and dreamed for \u2026 and possibly even some things beyond your wildest imaginings.<\/p>\n

This wondrously strange, weirdly beautiful, occasionally terrifying and wholly enchanting story is my favourite kind of fantasy. The world that Laini Taylor has created is darkly glittering and\u00a0vibrantly imagined. It is a world that manages to evoke a feeling of familiarity, as though you are reading about the ancient mythologies of a long lost civilizations. At the same time, it is completely original and gloriously peculiar.\u00a0 Stunning, exquisite and absolutely perfect in every way – I literally cannot praise this duology highly enough and cannot wait to read it all over again!<\/p>\n

Click here to read my review of Strange the Dreamer<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click here to order your copy of Muse of Nightmares<\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor Review by Sarah McDuling I knew this book would be amazing. Everything Laini Taylor writes is amazing. Her books are like shimmering miracles full of magic and mystery. She is like some kind of mystical\u00a0sorceress of words and wonders! If that sounds like hyperbole to you, let me issue a simple challenge – Pick up any one of Laini Taylor\u2019s books, flip it open to literally any page and read a few sentences. You\u2019ll see what I mean when I call her a \u2018mystical sorceress\u00a0of words and wonders\u2019. No-one writes gorgeous, otherworldly, phantasmagorical fantasy quite like Laini Taylor. Strange the Dreamer was one of the best books I read last year. If you haven\u2019t yet read it, maybe now would be the time to stop reading this review of the sequel? Fair warning, I\u2019m about about to get mildly spoiler-ish vis-a-vis the ending of Strange the Dreamer \u2026. The ending of\u00a0that book was so unbearably, tortuously painful!! Am I right?!? The way Laini Taylor left readers hanging at the dramatic conclusion of\u00a0Strange the Dreamer should really be illegal. I was so worried for Lazlo and Sarai (oh my beautiful, beloved Lazlo and Sarai!) and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":82955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[111,6678,85],"tags":[6799,3146,9163,4703,7432,6629],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Social-Laini.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82964,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82935\/revisions\/82964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}