A review by ashablue
Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

5.0

This 2 book series is a work of staggering beauty and exquisite world building where the characters don't get left behind. A girl who shouts moths and shapes dreams and fails at not kissing? A little girl who isn't really a little girl who survived unspeakable horror and who catches ghosts like balloons on strings? A goddess who eats memories? A woman who dares to defy her fate and steals the powers of gods and kills her way through dozens of worlds to save her sister? Beings who made holes in the worlds and linked them together for better and for worse? All this and more. So much emotion, tenderness and wander in every chapter. Laini Taylor makes you feel what her characters feel, taking you well along for the ride and making you care, really care about what happens to them.

There's lots of magic and fantasy but there's so much wonderful, relatable humanity in it all. Even supporting characters are dynamic, fully fleshed, funny and endearing with so much depth to their own story even as it unfolds in the shadows of the main.

I think it's a great fantasy read and if I had read this as a teen I may have gotten into fantasy much earlier in my life.