Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1) in Čteme anglicky

Oct 06, 2021 Maggie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: good, high-fantasy, intriguing-world-building, beautiful-writing, favourites, new-adult-fantasy-sci-fi

Strange the Dreamer was one of the most beautiful stories I've read in quite a while. I've already read Taylor's DOSAB trilogy and enjoyed it, but this one is 100% my favorite book by her so far! And after that ending I'm really interested in the next book! Overall, the characters were beautiful, the setting was beautiful, the writing was beautiful as well as the whole story. The characters were really great, I especially liked Lazlo (he was such a soft and thoughtful protagonist). Very magical ...more

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Apr 06, 2017 Andrea Salayová rated it really liked it · review of another edition

“And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.”

This book was so strange! (Mostly) original high fantasy full of gods and monsters and poeple who could be both. I loved the beginning, first 60 pages were utterly amazing and I read it in one breath. Then something happened and the book got really strange for a while and I assume this is where all the DNF statuses came fr “And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.”

This book was so strange! (Mostly) original high fantasy full of gods and monsters and poeple who could be both. I loved the beginning, first 60 pages were utterly amazing and I read it in one breath. Then something happened and the book got really strange for a while and I assume this is where all the DNF statuses came from. BUT once you got over this part, you will fall in love. I can guarantee that.

This is the story of the orphan - Laszlo Strange, who is obsessed with this mythic city, no one believes actually existed. He becomes librarian (yaay so much love for books in this story), studies the legends about the city and hopes to find more, but then something amazing happens and his dream might come true.

Laszlo is amazing, even though I HATED his name. I hated most of the names in this book to be honest - they were either too long to remember, too normal or too similar to one another. But back to Laszlo - I love how innocent he is, which is also explained well, so it is believable - he basically spent all of his life in the monastery or library, hardly seeing a woman. He also haven´t encountered the evil of the world, so he believes in goodness, and I loved that about him. And the book broke his nose once, which is just perfect.

There is also the second storyline, which is centered about "godgirl" Sarai (much better name) and other gods. This is the part which was very weak from the beginning. It certainly could have been done better, so it kept people reading. BUT it got better and I started to like Sarai as well. She fights agains hate and that is very important. She is supposed to hate people, but she doesnt and tries to find a way to end the neverending circle of hate between the people and the gods.

Other gods weren´t as important, I was having trouble to tell who is who at the beginning, which was also part of the problem with the beginning of this storyline. Villain of the story is Myria and she is written well, but i didn´t carethat much about her.

The thing that bothered me a little was the issue with "gifts" every god has. This is so overused. Red queen, Shatter me, Carve the mark - those are only some that came right into my mind - all of them havethe same idea - that children are born with some kind of a gift, which reveals itself once the child gets older, some gifts are better than the others, until one gift is super special... etc. Same every time. So yeah, this book also has it. Fortunately, it is not the base of the story.

On the other hand, I very much appreciated the romance, which was done beautifully. And I ussualy hate romance in books. This time, there was no insta love, but it felt very real, I could almost feel nostalgic and thinking about how it was falling in love for the first time. Well done on this one!

So overall the story felt original, beautiful, writing was amazing and you should definitely give it a try!

4/5 ...more

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Apr 19, 2017 Kristie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: my-favourite-books, fantasy, read-in-english, read-2017

Tohle bylo tak dobré, že jsem už i sepsala svůj názor na blog. Když tak najdete zde: http://yours-fantasy.blogspot.cz/2017... ...more

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Aug 07, 2021 Lenka Srolová rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Do Snílka neznámého jsem se zamilovala na první pohled. Ještě jsem ho ani nemusela číst a už mě totálně okouzlila ta obálka. Viděli jste ji naživo? Je nádherná!

Bála jsem se. Upřímně jsem měla vážně z strach z toho, že by se mi příběh o Lazlovi nelíbil. Po pár stranách jsem zjistila, že jsem se obávala zbytečně.

Lazlo je sirotek, nalezenec, knihovník a snílek Neznámý. Věřím, že jeho vášeň pro příběhy chápe každý čtenář a knihomol. Už jen tím měl ke mně blízko. Jeho chování a mluva je neskutečná. ...more

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Apr 05, 2017 Andrea Salayová rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy-faves, magic, romance, fantasy, weird, fairyloot, important-message

“And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.”

This book was so strange! (Mostly) original high fantasy full of gods and monsters and poeple who could be both. I loved the beginning, first 60 pages were utterly amazing and I read it in one breath. Then something happened and the book got really strange for a while and I assume this is where all the DNF statuses came fro “And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.”

This book was so strange! (Mostly) original high fantasy full of gods and monsters and poeple who could be both. I loved the beginning, first 60 pages were utterly amazing and I read it in one breath. Then something happened and the book got really strange for a while and I assume this is where all the DNF statuses came from. BUT once you got over this part, you will fall in love. I can guarantee that.

This is the story of the orphan - Laszlo Strange, who is obsessed with this mythic city, no one believes actually existed. He becomes librarian (yaay so much love for books in this story), studies the legends about the city and hopes to find more, but then something amazing happens and his dream might come true.

Laszlo is amazing, even though I HATED his name. I hated most of the names in this book to be honest - they were either too long to remember, too normal or too similar to one another. But back to Laszlo - I love how innocent he is, which is also explained well, so it is believable - he basically spent all of his life in the monastery or library, hardly seeing a woman. He also haven´t encountered the evil of the world, so he believes in goodness, and I loved that about him. And the book broke his nose once, which is just perfect.

There is also the second storyline, which is centered about "godgirl" Sarai (much better name) and other gods. This is the part which was very weak from the beginning. It certainly could have been done better, so it kept people reading. BUT it got better and I started to like Sarai as well. She fights agains hate and that is very important. She is supposed to hate people, but she doesnt and tries to find a way to end the neverending circle of hate between the people and the gods.

Other gods weren´t as important, I was having trouble to tell who is who at the beginning, which was also part of the problem with the beginning of this storyline. Villain of the story is Myria and she is written well, but i didn´t carethat much about her.

The thing that bothered me a little was the issue with "gifts" every god has. This is so overused. Red queen, Shatter me, Carve the mark - those are only some that came right into my mind - all of them havethe same idea - that children are born with some kind of a gift, which reveals itself once the child gets older, some gifts are better than the others, until one gift is super special... etc. Same every time. So yeah, this book also has it. Fortunately, it is not the base of the story.

On the other hand, I very much appreciated the romance, which was done beautifully. And I ussualy hate romance in books. This time, there was no insta love, but it felt very real, I could almost feel nostalgic and thinking about how it was falling in love for the first time. Well done on this one!

So overall the story felt original, beautiful, writing was amazing and you should definitely give it a try!

4/5 ...more

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Sep 26, 2018 Markéta Forejtová rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2018

3/5*

// Celá recenze: https://marky-books.blogspot.com/2018... ...more

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Jul 16, 2019 Adelle R. rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: funny, nice-surprise, 2019

No páni. Vyrazila mi dech a neřeknu k tomu víc než: CHCI DRUHÝ DÍL.

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Oct 07, 2018 Zuzana Malá rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: in-kindle, palmknihy

celkově za 2,5/5*

- 60 % knihy katastrofa
- posledních 40-30 % úplná pecka, nádhera

Nevěřím, že to fakt říkám, ale na dvojku se těším a přečtu si ji!!!

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Oct 18, 2019 Ivusha (Tenebien) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

It had a bit of a slow start, but later I really started to enjoy the story.
The only thing that felt a bit strange (no pun intended) was the love story. It felt a bit insta-lovey. I mean, they met in one dream. It was a really long dream, but I'd prefer them to meet in the dreams for a longer period of time instead of reading one really long dream sequence. :-) ...more

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