MUSE OF NIGHTMARES
by LAINI TAYLOR
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /Very Good
- Seller
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THETFORD, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: Hodder and Stoughton. First edition. First printing. Hard cover with dust jacket. Slight wear on dust jacket edges. Red boards. Edges of the book's pages are stained red(part of the design). Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Fantasy novel. Sequel to 'Strange the Dreamer'. Location: FRPC1 . Very Good. Hardcover. 2018.
Reviews
On Nov 20 2018, CloggieDownunder said:
Muse of Nightmares is the eagerly awaited sequel to Strange The Dreamer by American author, Laini Taylor. After the exciting climax of book one, Lazlo finds himself blue (a god) while his new-found love, Sarai, once a god, is now a ghost, having not survived the fall from the citadel above Weep. Minya has Sarai's ghost tethered, but what she's demanding in return is surely too much? Meanwhile, the remaining faranjis make a discovery in the rubble of the exploded anchor of the citadel. And long ago, in a land far away, the youth of an arctic town hope for a change in their fates with the arrival of a strange ship of blue-skinned gods.
Taylor concludes her duology by giving her clever and imaginative plot even more twists and turns. Her characters are suitably appealing or repulsive as required, although those stereotypically nasty ones develop further, proving all is not quite so simple. Taylor's world-building is smooth and subtle: there are no info dumps here. Her descriptive prose is often gorgeous.
This tale has all the required elements of a fantasy adventure: heroes and heroines, gods and goddesses with amazing powers, warriors, ghosts, monsters and fantastic craft, dreams and nightmares, alchemy, magic and a mysterious metal called Mesarthium, cruelty, coercion and kindness, romance and heartbreak, and all contained within a gorgeous cover. All that was left hanging in Strange The Dreamer (which must be read first) is beautifully resolved, while leaving some scope for further adventures. An utterly enthralling conclusion.
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Details
- Bookseller
- TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019452
- Title
- MUSE OF NIGHTMARES
- Author
- LAINI TAYLOR
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 2018
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TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
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THETFORD, Norfolk
About TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
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