Dreams of Gods & Monsters
by Laini Taylor
Young adult · ages 14–18 · grades 9–12 · 820L · 640 pages · 2015
Why we'd hand it over
A sweeping, baroque fantasy that honors its earlier volumes while grappling seriously with the cost of war and what it means to break cycles of violence—Taylor's prose is at its richest here, though the plot sometimes strains under the weight of its own mythology.