Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
Thoughts at a glance: **** (I really liked it) Summary: Many of us get the feeling that we were meant for something more. Something special . In real life, that doesn't always end up happening, but in this book, Lazlo Strange, who is born a no-name orphan and ends up the errand boy at the prestigious Library of Zosma, finds himself taken along on a journey that only dreams are made of: to figure out the mysteries of a long-lost city called Weep. Summoned by the famous Eril-Fane, christened Godslayer after he rose up against the gods that kept the humans of Weep in slavery, a caravan of warriors, thinkers, tinkerers, and Lazlo head to Weep in order to solve a problem that has long kept Weep isolated across the vast desert. And in the meantime, the long-forgotten children of the humans and the slain gods plan their revenge.