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Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater

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abitbetterbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

Undecided on the rating here so I’ll let it percolate a little bit more. I almost want to listen to it again immediately to pick up on all of the finer details.

As always, narration by Will Patton was absolutely incredible. I think that his voice and Maggie’s work were made for each other. In some ways, I think I am more lenient with Maggie’s writing when listening because I’m always having such a wonderful time enjoying the inflection and power in the narration that I’m less likely to pick apart things that bother me or notice when things don’t line up the way they should.

This was in many ways, a beautiful conclusion. The characters got the endings that they deserved and everything felt beautifully concluded in a way that left the reader satisfied but also make us ponder the future of the characters a little bit more. I think I will think about this series a lot in the future and have these beautifully rendered characters alive in my brain for a long time.

That being said, and all of the respect in the world to Maggie Stiefvater, I do think that the magic system got a bit too big for its breeches in this story. I know that you have to increase stakes and scale as you move through a series but I think that

so many people / things being dreams ended up making the idea of dreamers feel less special, and also make it feel less realistic that Niall Lynch wouldn’t have known about or told Ronan about sweetmetals. There were clearly a ton of people who knew about dreams needing them and were operating black markets in the same circles that Niall had been a part of.

I still have mixed feelings about Bryde and I need to hash those out a bit more.

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toopunkrockforshul's review

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Really great book and a great conclusion to the whole series and world. Depending on where you start the story, it's about brothers.

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thalia16's review

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adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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nevermoregothic's review against another edition

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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? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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trintrin's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

That was so lovely.

Is this the perfectest book ever? No, there are plenty of things that I think could've been handled better.

But just the fact that it put me into a reading slump for weeks because I was so scared to finish it with all those cliff-hangers, and all those insane plot-twists that mirrored or were foreshadowed in the previous books making me want to reread them,

combined with that sweet, sweet epilogue that had me giggling and kicking me feet like a five year old (WHAT DO YOU MEAN JORDAN AND DECLAN ARE MARRIED? AND ADAM AND RONAN ARE ENGAGED??????)

alone are enough for me to rate it 5 stars.

If the fact that this might be the last book ever featuring these wonderful characters and this wonderful universe influenced the rating, we're not gonna talk about it :)

~~I miss them already~~

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softiejace's review

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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melurmom's review

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adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

It is so so so hard for me to not give this book above a four because I so desperately want to. I have been in love with the TRC universe since middle school (I'm a sophomore in college now) and I truly feel like I have grown into and up with these characters so no matter how this book ended I'm sure I would have had some kind of poor feeling about it. I say that because this review is in no way coming objectively or with no bias. The book felt scattered and like Maggie was looking for ways to make a big end to these characters but in the process created an idea too big with too short of execution. All of the characters had some sort of interesting development but I felt it came on a little too late and *spoiler* the ending although cute with the wedding and bringing all of the gangsey back for one last time felt lazy in that none of the characters felt like they had their original shape. Additionally the whole side plot with Matthew and Bryde and randomly having Matthew pop up again felt so unnecessary. Ronans proposal to Adam was purely fan service for a happy ever after ending *spoiler*. I know Maggie likes to get butthurt about opinions on the dreamer trilogy so let me say this one last time: no matter what the ending was I would have been upset in someway and I know that. But it felt rushed and unoriginal.

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