This was an incredibly beautifully told part of a story (It is a dualogy so consider this the first half). The writing was impressive, full of wonder, elegance and felt like I was dancing with words. It was beautiful and terrible and full of monsters.Laini Taylor writes like I think other people dream. There are stories within her stories. I adore her prose and the way she can turn something ordinary into something completely extraordinary. Her writing is lyrical and like music you either love it or hate it. I’m firmly in love with the way she builds her characters, the world and the wondrous breadth of emotions she makes me feel.*** Sometimes a moment is so remarkable that it carves out a space in time and spins there, while the world rushes on around it. This was one such. ***I’d like everyone to meet Strange the Dreamer my new book boyfriend. I feel in love with him when he was just a boy and was kidnapped by the library. But he won me even more that he thinks like this.*** I lived seven years inside these books. My body may have been going about its duties in the library, but my mind was here. Do you know what they called me? Strange the dreamer. I was barely aware of my surroundings half the time.” […] “I walked around wondering what kind of wings I would buy if the wingsmiths came to town, and if I’d prefer to ride dragons or hunt them, and whether I’d stay when the mist came, and more than anything else by far, how in the world I was going to get to the Unseen City.” ***He is a boy/man after my own heart in his love of books and everything they have inside of them. His mind is open and full of the possibilities of the world. It is his dream to help the people of weep a city that has lost its name in any way he can.When he meets Sarai he sees her differently than she has ever even seen herself and I utterly adored the beginning of their love story.*** She asked in a hesitant whisper, “Do you still think I’m a… a singularly unhorrible demon?” “No,” he said, smiling. “I think you’re a fairy tale. I think you’re magical, and brave, and exquisite. And…” His voice grew bashful. Only in a dream could he be so bold and speak such words. “I hope you’ll let me be in your story.” ***Through Sarai we get a look into the history of the people of weep and understand like she does why hate blooms in the city and the pain of various character of the story. I loved that she could show both sides of a conflict because she understood them due to her gift and knows the people in the city better than she might even know her own family. Her time with Lazlo is some of my favorite.This was a story full of wonders, horrors, love and beautiful prose. A story where there isn’t a right side and a wrong side. Everyone is flawed in some way and the would be villains aren’t terrible and horrible people but just people who in some horrible circumstances made devastating decisions. I understood why they did the things they did and I loved the way the information was doled out slowly and seductively to draw you into the story even more.*** Vengeance. Sarai heard the way he said it, and she understood something. Vengeance ought to be spoken through gritted teeth, spittle flying, the cords of one’s soul so entangled in it that you can’t let it go, even if you try. If you feel it—if you really feel it—then you speak it like it’s a still-beating heart clenched in your fist and there’s blood running down your arm, dripping off your elbow, and you can’t let go. Feral didn’t speak it like that at all. It might have been any word. Dust or teacup or plum. There was no heat in it, no still-beating heart, no blood. Vengeance was just a word to him. ***Lazlo isn’t the only one on his way to help the city there has been a collection of various skilled people to come and help the city with their ‘Problem’ there was just no way they would have ever guessed what that problem was. I’m not even going to tell you because I want you to read the book and discover it the same way I did when we crested the hill leading into the city. Laini Taylor’s imagination is incredible.There is so much I could say. So much I want to say but half the wonder of this story is the way it is laid out and shown to the reader. I will say that I had every emotion during this story. There were some extremely fantastic things that happened and so many questions going into the next book which is on my most anticipated list for whenever it is coming out.I have over 200 highlights with some of the most beautiful writing I’ve found in a long time. I can’t wait for the conclusion to this magical story. I wanted to stay in this world much longer than the 2 books it is currently slotted to have.I’m off to stalk Laini to read every scrap of info I can find about this book and the next.