It's back and forth between Lazlo's and Serie's POV. Serie along with Minya, Ruby, Feral, and Sparrow, have been living is secrecy for many years in a floating Citadel above the city of Weep. She is one of only five left in the world after 'The Carnage'. Sarai, the offspring of a human and a god, was also a likable character.

Serie is the other MC that tells us her story. His number one passion since childhood is the city of Weep After the beginning of the book picks up, I was knee jerked into Serie's POV. Lazlo's wild imagination and reputation for story telling earn him the title- Strange the Dreamer. This is what slowed the beginning portion of the story down. His journey from boy to manhood, while interesting, has large portions spent on histories of the worlds and their city's. He's got a check mark in all the boxes- kind, humble, compassionate and a 'do good to all' attitude.

Lazlo's character, who's POV is told throughout the story, is a very likable character. While I enjoyed the heck out of this book, there were some minor familiar annoyances throughout and one major, that I still don't understand. I would probably have given this book 4 stars, but the brutal Cliffhanger ending ruined that. I'm conflicted with this review, NO I'm not, it is what it is. Fall into a mythical world of dread and wonder, moths and nightmares, love and carnage.

In this sweeping and breathtaking new novel by National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of the New York Times best-selling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, the shadow of the past is as real as the ghosts who haunt the citadel of murdered gods. How did he dream her before he knew she existed? And if all the gods are dead, why does she seem so real? The answers await in Weep, but so do more mysteries - including the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo's dreams. What happened in Weep 200 years ago to cut it off from the rest of the world? What exactly did the Godslayer slay that went by the name of god? And what is the mysterious problem he now seeks help in solving? Then a stunning opportunity presents itself in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance or lose his dream forever. Since he was 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. The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around - and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. A new epic fantasy by National Book Award finalist and New York Times best-selling author Laini Taylor of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy.

Strange the dreamer