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Greywaren

Maggie Stiefvater

4.31 AVERAGE

kill_so_kind's review

4.0

idk what to rate this, i'm just happy about how things turned out :)

The most confident five stars I've given in 2022

[4.5]

The end of this trilogy… amazing characters, story, world.

Why would I do this to myself.

What a wonderful goodbye to one of my favorite fictional worlds. Beautifully done. Excellent character work. I loved it.

It’s weird to think of how I’ve grown up since I first started The Raven Boys, all the way to now finishing Greywaren. I’m no longer freshly 16, I’m now almost 20. I will always relish what these characters and these books gave me.

For a moment there I got scared I might bw disapointed having a glimpse of some of the reviews.

But just like any other Maggie book, Greywaren was quite the ride. Rollercoaster with twists and turns which I did not expect.

I will miss all the characters and most of all Ronan.

Thank you Maggies for bringing the dreamers into my world!
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glossgirl's review

5.0
adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

11/8/2022
approximately six years of my life to this series, and a gorgeous tattoo. i am so happy i could cry. i feel as though i have taken the deepest sigh of my life, and am breathing easy now.

7/14/2024
I can't stop crying. My god. To no one's surprise. My stomach hurts. I want so badly to articulate what this book made me feel, what these books have made me feel, but it is not an easy thing to do. Ronan Lynch is a character I will be so in love with for the rest of my life. I cannot, at all, accurately display what a gorgeous arc he goes through in these books. Adam in these books, too, has grown into such a beautiful young man at the end of these. Insane to think that they are twenty-three in the epilogue, and I am not far from that age at all anymore. I have loved these books and these characters for almost a decade now. I can't imagine myself ever not loving them. I am just... so speechless when it comes to these guys.

Adam and Ronan in this. Ronan and Adam. The chapter at the end describes the Barns summer—ow. Ow ow ow.
Adam Parrish, who tried as he might, could not talk himself out of loving Ronan. Adam Parrish, who is terrified in the Lace before realizing his Ronan is there. Adam Parrish, who just laughs in joy, despite how awful things are.


Gansey is right, being a teenager does suck. 

Declan Lynch's character development is always going to be one of my favorites. Him in this versus him in The Raven Boys. It is like night and day.
Declan Lynch, whose love literally in the end saved the world. Declan Lynch, who couldn't not love his brothers even when he tried. Declan Lynch, who was the first person to ever love Ronan, while Ronan thought that Declan started hating him first. Declan Declan Declan. Declan and Jordan. Everything about them is so incredibly important to me. There is such a gorgeous metaphor of what a sweetmetal is in these books that is so so worth exploring.


Hennessy, who so beautifully learns her worth throughout these novels. The fact that she is the creator of such insanely strong sweetmetals is a gorgeous thing.
If sweetmetals are all a metaphor for love, then for Hennsey's self-portrait to be one is such a beautiful metaphor for the fact that she never really did hate herself. It's just. It's so good. I don't have the words for it.


The whole truth of Ronan makes something in me hurt. Niall and Mor's fear of him is what is so insane to me. Imagine manifesting a god, an honest-to-god god, into the being of a toddler. Imagine being so scared of that little boy, but all that little boy wants is to dream of light. You know what he dreams up? Magic forests that save his best friends, and a little brother to love him, and little firefly-like lights, and a little girl who is basically his daughter. He dreams himself wings that Adam and him use to fling themselves into the swimming hole they make. It's just. He's so good. All Ronan wants is to dream of beautiful things, and here everyone was thinking he would end the world. It makes me hurt to just think about it. He's so good. The fact that this little godlike toddler cries to himself because he's lonely, and he's quiet about it. The fact that he hides his pain, even after just being born. It's so. It's so much. All these dreamers around him who are nowhere near as powerful as him and what do they dream? Nathan dreams bombs, Kavinsky dreamt drugs, but Ronan Lynch loved to dream about light. It's too much.


This book, ultimately, is catharsis. I could not ask for more for these characters. I am yet again getting choked up writing this review. They deserve it, in ways that I cannot even begin to articulate.

It was all, in fact, very good. 

I also have no idea how I am ever supposed to move on from this.

i’m so sad this series is over it’s so bittersweet. everyone deserves love and happiness i love everyone wow.

dreamer trilogy????? this was the declan trilogy