

It is revealed that the gods, once they arrived over Weep in the Citadel, raped men and women to create more gods, leading to the godspawn. Nova follows the trail through worlds over hundreds of years to recover Kora. They indenture more children and travel between worlds through portals in the air. Over time, Skathis and the gods turn to domination and use mesarthim as a resource to hold them above everybody else. A vengeful Nova is arranged into a forced marriage but escapes the village, moving painstakingly through the ice to find salvation. Skathis, the ship's captain, indentures Kora and uses the metal mesarthium to turn her blue and awaken her tremendous powers. They are both taken and examined but Kora is held by them, while Nova is dumped out. One day, a giant ship floats over their land, and they rejoice in gods arriving to take them away. At some unknown point in time, sisters Kora and Nova live in a fishing village where they depend on each other for everything including survival and ability to stay resolute while the village's elders treat them cruelly and arrange forced marriages. The other godspawn tend to the Citadel, which is still tilted and ready to fall onto the city. Minya holds Sarai's ghost as an ultimatum for Lazlo to help them massacre the city of Weep in revenge for Eril-Fane killing their siblings. Immediately after the events of the first book, Lazlo meets the other godspawn and discovers he is Minya's brother.

The pair must contest with Minya, the oldest of the godspawn, as Sarai explores her dreams and realizes there is greater tragedy inside then she would have ever imagined. The novel is a sequel to Strange the Dreamer and follows Lazlo Strange and the ghost of Sarai, a blue-skinned godspawn, discovering the secrets behind the city of Weep as they stabilize relations between the two worlds of humans and gods. Muse of Nightmares is a 2018 young adult fantasy novel written by American author Laini Taylor, published by Little, Brown Books on October 2, 2018. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book
