A review by mikachu742
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

2.5

I had pretty high hopes for this book but it was just a miss for me. I think it maybe played all of its cards a little too quickly or maybe I'm forever loyal to The Locked Tomb series so the plot twists/reveals in any story will pale in comparison to how Muir does it. This book was wayyyy too long bro I swear it could have been half the length and I'm willing to bet the second book will also be unnecessarily verbose. It made the pacing really drag and the payoff was never worth how slowly it had all been building up. For all that was said in the book, I still didn't feel much of a connection to any of the characters, even the leads. The book was long enough to have fleshed out more of the secondary characters and solidified Lazlo and Sarai's characters too. 
I think I will be happier just reading a plot summary of the second book and leaving it at that.