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Greywaren

Maggie Stiefvater

4.31 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

i want to carve a hole into this universe and move into it (and preferably never leave)
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circuit333's review

5.0
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

I literally hugged this book to my chest and just held it for several minutes after I read the last page. I don’t have words to describe how full and complex it made me feel. This story lives inside me now.
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kivik's review

4.0
adventurous challenging 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: No

was sobbing my eyes out at the end of this book. maggie you truly know how to write an ending. best book in the tril!! i wish it was 700 pages longer
challenging mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
medium-paced

In a way, she thought, Ronan had been screaming since she'd met him. She just hadn't been able to hear it, since she'd been screaming, too.

Look, this book filled my heart and absolutely captivated me. The way that Maggie Stiefvater has managed to tie together all the threads from the Raven Cycle that she in turn artfully and callously snipped in this trilogy is truly remarkable.

But the reason why I was so attached to this book was not because I was so attached to each and every one of the characters, because I cared about all of them, because I even understood why they were all there (
Spoilerlike... does anyone know why Fenian and Mór suddenly developed spines/consciences and ended up at Declan and Jordan's wedding???
), but because I just. wanted. Ronan, Adam, and Matthew (and, okay, Declan, and Jordan because she's so key to his growth) to come out okay. And that was so uncertain throughout this book, and being whirled through that intricate, interesting journey held my whole heart.

I ultimately feel that this is the ending that this universe Stiefvater has created deserved. But do I think that we needed these extra characters and twist and turns? No. Do I think that these characters had earned these endings by the end of the Raven Cycle? Pretty much. Do I think this could have been one novel, or even a novella, with fewer unnecessary complications, just for grow the Lynch brothers to their full potentials (
Spoilerwhich, arguably in Matthew's case, this trilogy didn't accomplish
)? Yes.

Tanquam, Ronan thought, furious that Adam was upset, euphoric that he'd come back. It hadn't been that long before this that he'd been wanting to know what emotions felt like, and now he had all of them at once.
Just before the door closed behind him, Adam said to the dark, '
Alter idem.'
dark 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

This was an incredible last book and the nicest sendoff to a whole load of characters. I think that not everything was tied up, but it is not important. This series in jazz music, it goes were the pattern takes it. And it was such a ride! Thanks Maggie.