Swoon Thursday (#215): Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

- From the book you’re currently reading, or one you just finished, tell us what made you SWOON. What got your heart pounding, your skin tingling, and your stomach fluttering

- Try to make the swoon excerpt 140 characters (or less), if you are going to tweet about it. Use the hashtag #YABOUND when tweeting

This week, my swoon is from Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor!

But first... first he just really, really, really wanted to kiss her.

He searched her eyes fro acquiescence and found it. Freely she gave it. It was like a thread of light passing from one to the other, and t was more than acquiescence. It was complicity, and desire. Her breathing shallowed. She stepped in, closing that little space. There was a limit to their melting, and they found it, and defied it. His chest was hard against hers. Hers was soft against his. His hands closed on her waist. Her arms came round his neck. The walls gave forth a shimmer like sunrise on fierce water. Countless tiny stars spent themselves in radiance, and neither Sarai nor Lazlo knew which of them was making it. Perhaps they both were, and there was such brilliance in the endless careless diamonds of light, but there was awareness, too, and urgency. Under the skin of dreaming, they both knew that dawn was near, and that their embrace could not survive it. 

So Sarai rose to her toes, erasing the last little gap between their flushed faces. Their lashes fluttered shut, honey red and rivercat, and their mouths, soft and hungry, found each other and had just time to touch, and press, and sweetly, sweetly open before the first wan morning light seeped in at the window...[ ].

- ARC, pages 404-405

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I'm sorry, friends - I had to cut the scene off before spoilers presented themselves! Don't you love Taylor's writing? This is such a beautiful snippet!

USA people! If you preorder Strange the Dreamer (you definitely should), you'll receive a bookplate and character decal! There is also a preorder incentive for UK readers. Details for the USA preorder incentive are HERE.