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C'est le rêve qui choisit le rêveur, et non l'inverse...
Il est une ville, au centre du désert, où nul n'a le droit de se rendre sous peine de mort. De ses entrailles sortaient autrefois d'interminables caravanes chargées de trésors mais, depuis deux cents ans, la cité est coupée du reste du monde... Pire encore, un soir d'hiver, le nom de ce lieu de légende s'évanouit en un clin d'œil de la mémoire de tous – Lazlo Lestrange, orphelin de cinq ans à peine, ne fait pas exception à la règle. Frappé au cœur, le petit garçon restera irrémédiablement fasciné par cette énigme.
Quinze ans plus tard, il travaille dans la plus grande bibliothèque du monde, à Zosma, en rêvant de fabuleuses découvertes quand, de la Cité oubliée, émerge tout à coup une curieuse expédition venue recruter les meilleurs scientifiques du continent. Pourquoi diable s'obstiner à réunir ces esprits éminents ? Mystère... Et pourquoi Lazlo voit-il donc ses songes se peupler de visions étranges – à commencer par une déesse à la peau bleue pourtant assassinée, des années plus tôt, par les habitants de la ville interdite ? Qui est-elle vraiment ? Comment le jeune homme, qui ignore tout de sa légende, peut-il bien la voir en rêve ?
Rien de tout cela n'est possible, bien sûr – mais pareil détail a-t-il jamais empêché un rêveur de rêver ? Songes, monstres, dieux, fantômes, alchimie et guerre totale : après quatre années d'attente, Laini Taylor, finaliste du National Book Award américain et auteure de séries multi-récompensées, nous livre enfin un aperçu de son nouvel univers, à la plus grande joie de ses nombreux fans.
Le rêve comme seul rempart contre la violence du monde
Il est un monde où hommes et femmes naissent avec un don précieux, dont seuls les plus puissants gagnent le droit de se servir en temps utile, mais toujours au nom de l'Empire. À respectivement seize et dix-sept ans, Nova et Kora rêvent du jour tant attendu où des envoyés à la peau bleue viendront enfin les enlever. Alors, seulement, elles pourront accomplir leur véritable destin.
Très loin de là, à travers l'espace et le temps, dans la mythique Cité oubliée – qu'après tant d'années, Lazlo Lestrange peut désormais contempler de ses yeux –, retentit une explosion qui fait basculer son monde et celui de Sarai. Leur avenir ne tient désormais plus qu'à un fil, celui que manipule par la seule force de son esprit une enfant cruelle et meurtrie. À la fois plus puissant et plus vulnérable que jamais, le jeune homme va devoir choisir : sauver celle qu'il aime ou bien tous les habitants de la ville interdite jusqu'au dernier.
Sans compter qu'un danger plus grave encore menace... Car l'oiseau blanc qui surveille la citadelle depuis toujours veille, et il est grand temps pour lui de passer enfin à l'action. Dieux, monstres, fantômes, mondes étranges et guerre totale, La Muse des cauchemars clôt avec maestria une série aussi poétique que haletante. Qu'on se le tienne pour dit : l'univers de Laini Taylor n'a pas fini de hanter nos rêves...
*An Amazon Best Book of the Year*
The final book in the gripping Sunday Times bestselling series.
By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz.
Common enemy, common cause.
When Jael's brutal seraph army trespasses into the human world, the unthinkable becomes essential, and Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat. It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people.
And, perhaps, for themselves. Toward a new way of living, and maybe even love.
But there are bigger threats than Jael in the offing. A vicious queen is hunting Akiva, and, in the skies of Eretz ... something is happening. Massive stains are spreading like bruises from horizon to horizon; the great winged stormhunters are gathering as if summoned, ceaselessly circling, and a deep sense of wrong pervades the world.
What power can bruise the sky
From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy. At the very barriers of space and time, what do gods and monsters dream of ? And does anything else matter
DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE is a book unbounded by genre but located at a magical crossroads where THE PASSAGE meets PHILIP PULLMAN and TWILIGHT meets PAN'S LABYRINTH.
Errand requiring immediate attention. Come.
The note was on vellum, pierced by the talons of the almost-crow that delivered it. Karou read the message. 'He never says please', she sighed, but she gathered up her things.
When Brimstone called, she always came.
In general, Karou has managed to keep her two lives in balance. On the one hand, she's a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague; on the other, errand-girl to a monstrous creature who is the closest thing she has to family. Raised half in our world, half in 'Elsewhere', she has never understood Brimstone's dark work - buying teeth from hunters and murderers - nor how she came into his keeping. She is a secret even to herself, plagued by the sensation that she isn't whole.
Now the doors to Elsewhere are closing, and Karou must choose between the safety of her human life and the dangers of a war-ravaged world that may hold the answers she has always sought.
'Remarkable and beautifully written . . . The opening volume of a truly original trilogy.' GUARDIAN
It began with the breathtaking DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE... the story continues in the astounding, must-read sequel, DAYS OF BLOOD AND STARLIGHT
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a new way of living - one without massacres and torn throats and bonfires of the fallen, without revenants or bastard armies or children ripped from their mothers' arms to take their turn in the killing and dying.
Once, the lovers lay entwined in the moon's secret temple and dreamed of a world that was a like a jewel-box without a jewel - a paradise waiting for them to find it and fill it with their happiness.
This was not that world.
The Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy is unbounded by genre but located at a magical crossroads where The Passage meets Philip Pullman and Twilight meets Pan's Labyrinth.
Karou is a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague, but she has a second life working as the errand-girl to the creature Brimstone from Elsewhere: a world of gods, chimaeras and seraphims. But her already extraordinary life is pushed into new realms when the door between Earth and Elsewhere begins to close and Karou is thrust into a war that could change both worlds forever.
With DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE, DAYS OF BLOOD AND STARLIGHT and DREAMS OF GODS AND MONSTERS in one place you won't have to be 'tearing at your hair and gnashing your teeth waiting for the next installment' (Stephenie Meyer) - step into a world of gods and monsters and be prepared for love, violence and magic aplenty.
Petite though she may be, Zuzana is not known for timidity. Her best friend, Karou, calls her "rabid fairy," her "voodoo eyes" are said to freeze blood, and even her older brother fears her wrath. But when it comes to the simple matter of talking to Mik, or "Violin Boy," her courage deserts her. Now, enough is enough. Zuzana is determined to make the first move, and she has a fistful of magic and a plan. It's a wonderfully elaborate treasure hunt of a plan that will take Mik all over Prague on a cold winter's night before leading him to the treasure: herself! Violin Boy is not going to know what hit him.
New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor brings to life a night only hinted at in the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy--the magical first date of fan-favorites Zuzana and Mik. Originally published as an ebook, this new print edition will include breathtaking black and white illustrations, plus bonus content in a gorgeous package perfect for new and current fans of the series.
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