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The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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adventurous medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

A little bit disappointing coming from the 1st book that I really liked and then finding this. Not that 3 ⭐ is bad, but definitely was expecting more from this. I think that the rating was mainly because this was a easy read with the audiobook and entertaining enough, it wasn’t bad for a 2 star but it wasn’t that good either.

Instead of making me like the characters more, I stopped caring about them lol like I don’t care about Blue or Gansey or Ronan at all, Noah barely appears, and Adam… that was my favorite character on book 1 and here that love was shred to pieces with every decision he made or action he did (he had me screaming at him: stop being so proud you won’t accept help from the friends who love you, if a girl won’t kiss you then that’s the end of it and she doesn’t owe you any explanations and you shouldn’t be screaming at her, why would you disappear on your friend for hours like a baby doing a tantrum and getting him so worry)

Can we just talk about the way Blue has the boys all wrapped around her little finger in this book? As if these boys never saw a girl in their life and she’s just like “not like other girls”, and I just don’t like that. (the only one safe from her is Ronan

and just because I think he’s gay?

)

Not plot important but I find it funny how every single Matthew I know has curly hair.

Not going to lie, I didn’t understand much about this Gray Man and it’s because I didn’t care either and got lost by the end, just listening without paying much attention because of personal stuff, but so little happens in these books that it doesn’t matter.

The one thing I did like a lot was how we were learning about Ronan’s powers and why his father left those rules in his will about the house.

Anyways, I feel like I would enjoy more these books if I finish them in 1 or 2 days instead of taking a week to read them.

I read other reviews and I’m sad I’m just not one of the girls who gets this book, I really hope the next books are better for me.

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adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

Having the time of my life reading about Blue and the boys. This one's a bit more Ronan centered (as a friend of mine lovingly pointed out), and I loved it because as a Capricorn I obviously have a penchant for showy, snarky and emotionally damaged boys so 10/10 no comments.

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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trintrin's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I genuinely don't think I can put my love for this book into words. So here's a list of all the things that made me go insane:

- Best boy Noah being fascinated by a snow globe, my hearttt
- Ronan throwing Noah out of the window AHAHAHAH
- Every Ronan/Noah interaction actually. Those two are comedy gold. Something about the way Ronan treats Noah like he would treat any other makes my insides tingle
- Chainsaw being so adorable :(( I really really hope they don't kill Chainsaw off just because it would be a tearjerker, I will actually kill myself
- Gansey being the bestest best friend you could ever ask for. The things I would do to have an irl Gansey.
- Like when he thought his car was wrecked and was so nervous he couldn't even bring himself to glance at the car. But then he saw Ronan smiling and just melted???
- "His face went somber for half a second, and then it dissolved into an absolutely wonderful and fearless laugh. The old Ronan Lynch’s laugh. No, it was better than that one, because this new one had just a hint of darkness beneath it. This Ronan knew there was crap in the world, but he was laughing anyway." KILL ME RN
- The Blue and Noah kissing scene just broke my heart
- The Blue and Gansey not-quite-kissing scene broke my heart as well
- The Blue and Adam no-kisses-for-you scene broke my heart way too much
- Ronan and Gansey casually flirting ("Am I in your dreams?" "Oh, yes, baby", "While I'm gone, dream me the world. Something new for every night." etc)
- Ronan and Gansey being canonically shipped together but Ronan seeing Gansey as more of a brother than Declan
- Ronan having erotic dreams about Adam??????????????????
- Ronan and Adam mask dream vs. irl scene ooooooof
- Ronan's many secrets and him struggling to admit everything to himself
- Ronan's conversation with Kavinsky helping him figure everything out. "You didn't say you don't swing that way" "No, I didn't"
- Just Ronan in general. His powers, his character, his humour, he's the absolute best part of the book. I thought he's gonna be one of those overdone bad-boy-with-a-heart-of-gold trope, but he's genuinely the best of them all.
- Blue's family made a lot more appearances and I'm happy. Calla and Persephone are amazing, I hope they never experience a tinge of sadness in their lives. Orla ("i'M fLeXiBLe") jkhadfs ~~me too~~.
- Ronan's childhood? For some reason I expected him to like hate his childhood or whatever but I'm so so glad we got to see him be that vulnerable. "Softly, just for Gansey, he asked, “Can I go and see Mom?”
- I still don't understand what's the issue with Declan. Matthew is adorable though. Protect him.
- Mr. Gray's character development ("I'm not a kidnapper"), his convo with those other thugs, him killing off his brother like a savage, his adoration for Maura (same, bestie)
- Adam running off like that. Adam being insecure. Adam thinking he's turning into his parents. Adam just not knowing what to do. Adam forgetting Gansey's phone number. Adam getting angry at everything. Adam not being with the others that much at all for the entire book. "Do you think you’re a train wreck?" "That would mean I was on the tracks to start with"
- Adam and Persephone working together in the end. That was very much needed
- Blue's pink switchblade. "They were a good pair. Both incapable of opening up without cutting someone."
- I loved Blue even more in this one. The way she's dealing with all this mess is quite mature for her age. I love how she takes absolutely no shits, be it from Adam or Ronan or Gansey (not Noah, ofc. My wittle Noah would never harm anyone)
- Wild!Gansey, Wild!Gansey, Wild!Gansey, Wild!Gansey, Wild!Gansey, Wild!Gansey
- Blue and Gansey's casual back and forth, the late night phone calls, the long drive together
- The casual banter between all of them in general. And the character dynamics. It's all so well done, literally every character (including the side characters) already made their way up my top characters of all time list
- The foreshadowing??? From the first book??? The way it all pays off???? So many things that I never caught on despite it being literally right. there.
- THE EPILOGUE!! I'm generally not a fan of epilogues but this one was beautiful??? I would even say it's the best part of the book

Other thoughts:

- There wasn't that much chemistry between Gansey and Blue in the last book, but I feel like it kinda improved with this one. It's still not the best (even Ronan and Kavinsky had better chemistry), but it's better ig? I can already tell it's only going to get better from here on. And I'm glad they're taking it slow.
- Adam slowly eroding my heart with the way he treats those who care about him. I'm glad he got a character development in the end cuz I don't think I could've continued reading with him staying that way. It's worse because I completely understand where he is coming from, but I wish it didn't have to be that way
- Mr. Gray?? Where did he even come from? Why the sudden change in character after years of being a hitman. Him and Maura getting that close that fast? I hope we get to see more of him in the next one cuz I need answers
- Considering I didn't care much for Glendower, I really like the plot of this book hehehe
- Kavinsky?? He got such an abrupt conclusion, I don't know what to make of him, but ok. He was interesting at the very least ig
- This book could've done well with some diversity but I'm not really complaining
- Except the internalised misogyny in the Orla scene made me so uncomfortable. Blue, all she's doing is wearing a bikini on a boat, is that so wrong? I understand why the boys were acting that way but Blue?? The feminist Blue who takes no shits from anyone?? The one that wears shredded t-shirts and has an unevenly chopped hair just to stand out??
- NOT ENOUGH NOAH. GIVE ME MORE NOAH
- Seriously though, I really wish Noah could be a solid part of the Raven squad now. Hopefully that is the case from the next book onwards. Since the ley line is fixed, there is absolutely no reason for Noah to stay out of all this

Overall, this book had fantastic characters and a fantastic plot. It might even rival with Crooked Kingdom on being my all time favourite book, and that's saying a lot!

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