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4.31 AVERAGE
4.31 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
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
3.5
I was 16 when I first met Ronan Lynch and Adam Parrish and now I'm 23 and yet these characters are still very much my fictional emotional support boys.
I was 16 when I first met Ronan Lynch and Adam Parrish and now I'm 23 and yet these characters are still very much my fictional emotional support boys.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I'll give it a 4.25 because it's Maggie Stiefvater, but it has to be less than Mister Impossible because the build up was so much better than the climax and ending. And that sums up what I think Maggie Stiefvater is better at: building up the atmosphere and tension, setting up intricate mysteries and delving into the inner worlds of the characters. Maggie Stiefvater once said that she wants her endings to feel *inevitable*, but the final villain did not feel inevitable. The execution of the ending just felt weak, the only character development that really felt earned in this book was Declan's. Everything else, the character arcs, the rules of the magic, even the major conflict, was sort of just quickly glossed over. I'm sad this is the final book in this universe because I think the characters deserve so much more.
I've read a lot of mixed feelings in reviews about this book, but I honestly loved it. I think the ending was exactly what it should be.
A good book will have you still wanting more, wanting to know what happened with the characters, their lives, their relationships. There was a nice little sum up at the end which laid some of it out in a way I think tied it all up nicely. I'd like to know what Hennessey is up to with You-Know-Who, but overall it was cute. I feel good with this being the end of the trilogy and while I still have some little plot arcs I'd like to look further into, I can put this world down and feel satisfied that it ended where it did.
All my love goes to Jordan and Matthew, my two favourite babies in the books.
P.S. Maggie, please send me a Chainsaw of my own. Thanks!
A good book will have you still wanting more, wanting to know what happened with the characters, their lives, their relationships. There was a nice little sum up at the end which laid some of it out in a way I think tied it all up nicely. I'd like to know what Hennessey is up to with You-Know-Who, but overall it was cute. I feel good with this being the end of the trilogy and while I still have some little plot arcs I'd like to look further into, I can put this world down and feel satisfied that it ended where it did.
All my love goes to Jordan and Matthew, my two favourite babies in the books.
P.S. Maggie, please send me a Chainsaw of my own. Thanks!
It was rough at the beginning but it did tie everything up nicely. I was glad to see some HEA's for these characters I've loved for 7 books now.
The best of the three books. It is genuinely one of the most unsettling books I’ve ever read. The moment I realized that the Niall memories scattered throughout were not just Maggie’s usual perspective shift shenanigans and that they were what Declan sees when he meets Mor & the new Fenian was… I just think it’s a beautiful thing that Declan is loved and Ronan is loved because Declan loves him and Matthew is loved because Ronan loves him.
The words "wildly disappointing" come to mind. This book was a fever dream, a bad one that I don't want to bring back into the real world. It physically pains me to have to give this only 2 stars.
Echoing many other confused readers: What happened???
I am going to pretend this wasn't canon.
You know how in the Fantastic Beasts movies they stopped being about the beasts so much so that the main title "Fantastic Beasts" keeps getting smaller and smaller with each sequel?
This book was that for Ronan Lynch. The most important part of the story being sidelined. Frankly, he deserved better.
And don't even get me started about all the "backstory" and "twists" that, in my opinion, do not align with the original TRC series or even the previous two Dreamer books.
Echoing many other confused readers: What happened???
I am going to pretend this wasn't canon.
You know how in the Fantastic Beasts movies they stopped being about the beasts so much so that the main title "Fantastic Beasts" keeps getting smaller and smaller with each sequel?
This book was that for Ronan Lynch. The most important part of the story being sidelined. Frankly, he deserved better.
And don't even get me started about all the "backstory" and "twists" that, in my opinion, do not align with the original TRC series or even the previous two Dreamer books.
No one talk to me for the next 25 years.
“This is a story about the brothers Lynch.”
“Declan wondered how such a short-lived animal—the Lynch family—could have left such an impression on him. The day would come upon him soon when he’d lived longer without it than with it, and yet the memories still owned him thoroughly.”
“How badly he wanted to trust that someone else would make sure the world didn’t burn down without him. How badly he wanted to be a son again, a kid again, to let someone else carry this. Carry him.”
“Tamquam, said Ronan, and Adam said, Alter idem.”
“Love had changed the situation. Niall didn’t yet love the strange, dangerous child, but he loved Declan, and Declan loved Ronan. So Ronan lived.”
“Bryde would break off and be all consciousness is a map to every place we have ever been and ever will be and yet no one here will consult it and thus is lost and Matthew would ask, ‘Have you ever read anything about clinical depression?’”
“All this time, the biggest lie Declan had told himself was that he hated his father. What he’d really meant, every time he thought it, every single day, was: I miss him.”
“Magic is about intention. So are conversations.”
“They sighed. The stars moved overhead. The world felt enormous, both past and future, with their slender present hovering in the middle.
It was all very good.”
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
“This is a story about the brothers Lynch.”
“Declan wondered how such a short-lived animal—the Lynch family—could have left such an impression on him. The day would come upon him soon when he’d lived longer without it than with it, and yet the memories still owned him thoroughly.”
“How badly he wanted to trust that someone else would make sure the world didn’t burn down without him. How badly he wanted to be a son again, a kid again, to let someone else carry this. Carry him.”
“Tamquam, said Ronan, and Adam said, Alter idem.”
“Love had changed the situation. Niall didn’t yet love the strange, dangerous child, but he loved Declan, and Declan loved Ronan. So Ronan lived.”
“Bryde would break off and be all consciousness is a map to every place we have ever been and ever will be and yet no one here will consult it and thus is lost and Matthew would ask, ‘Have you ever read anything about clinical depression?’”
“All this time, the biggest lie Declan had told himself was that he hated his father. What he’d really meant, every time he thought it, every single day, was: I miss him.”
“Magic is about intention. So are conversations.”
“They sighed. The stars moved overhead. The world felt enormous, both past and future, with their slender present hovering in the middle.
It was all very good.”
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
