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4.31 AVERAGE
4.31 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
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:
Complicated
emotional
hopeful
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
adventurous
dark
emotional
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
dark
emotional
mysterious
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
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Felt like the ending was a lil rushed but loved this book and the whole universe sad to see it end
Wow this is a hard one for me to rate because most of it was lucky it didn’t get two-starred. At one point I said I was bored with it but upon reflection it was more severe disappointment, so much so that it moved Stiefvater from auto-buy to maybe see you in the library. I maintain my opinion that this trilogy should have been a duology and trimmed way the hell down.
My disappointment is easy to pinpoint. Most fans reading this aren’t here for Jordan/Hennessy. They’re most likely not there for Farooq-Lane/Liliana. Heck they’re probably not even here for Declan & Matthew. They’re here for Ronan and it’s hard to be excited for Ronan’s role in this final book of the trilogy and indeed the entire series. He’s only active for what? The last thirty pages of the book? And the rest of the time without spoilers, let’s just say he’s utterly passive and barely even a reactive character let alone proactive.
Maybe if I had liked Jordan, Hennessy and Farooq-Lane this would have landed better but honestly I was meh on the lot of them. (I did very much like Liliana though). Maybe if what happens to Matthew mid-way in had been revisited more it would have helped (I think this was to set the reader up to wonder is Matthew going to make a very bad choice but we don’t know to the very end)
In many ways I’m reminded of the time Anne McCaffery tried to give scientific explanations for the dragons and for Thread and it fell so flat it all but destroyed the series. I do NOT need to know what makes Ronan (and the others) dreamers. I was already meh to learn there were plenty other dreamers beyond the Lynches and this did nothing to help that. For me it stole away what made the original series and Ronan and his family special.
But at the end of the day this was everyone BUT Ronan’s story, like he was an afterthought in his own series and I felt annoyed by this. And honestly if I heard the words I need a sweetmetal one more damn time in the first two thirds of the book I was ready to scream.
The only thing that saved this for me and got it up to that third star was the last quarter of the book. Again without spoilers, Ronan has a problem this whole book. How it was resolved was very clever and I loved that. The ending of the book and especially the epilogue was a good way to end everything. That said, I can’t stop wondering if the fans had been less toxic would this book have worked out the way it did. Fans were hounding her to write Adam/Ronan in highly sexualized terms for one and otherwise being insanely demanding of how their relationship should go (I liked how it ended) I will always wonder if Ronan was a guest star in his own damn book as a result of the toxicity and the author having had enough.
My disappointment is easy to pinpoint. Most fans reading this aren’t here for Jordan/Hennessy. They’re most likely not there for Farooq-Lane/Liliana. Heck they’re probably not even here for Declan & Matthew. They’re here for Ronan and it’s hard to be excited for Ronan’s role in this final book of the trilogy and indeed the entire series. He’s only active for what? The last thirty pages of the book? And the rest of the time without spoilers, let’s just say he’s utterly passive and barely even a reactive character let alone proactive.
Maybe if I had liked Jordan, Hennessy and Farooq-Lane this would have landed better but honestly I was meh on the lot of them. (I did very much like Liliana though). Maybe if what happens to Matthew mid-way in had been revisited more it would have helped (I think this was to set the reader up to wonder is Matthew going to make a very bad choice but we don’t know to the very end)
In many ways I’m reminded of the time Anne McCaffery tried to give scientific explanations for the dragons and for Thread and it fell so flat it all but destroyed the series. I do NOT need to know what makes Ronan (and the others) dreamers. I was already meh to learn there were plenty other dreamers beyond the Lynches and this did nothing to help that. For me it stole away what made the original series and Ronan and his family special.
But at the end of the day this was everyone BUT Ronan’s story, like he was an afterthought in his own series and I felt annoyed by this. And honestly if I heard the words I need a sweetmetal one more damn time in the first two thirds of the book I was ready to scream.
The only thing that saved this for me and got it up to that third star was the last quarter of the book. Again without spoilers, Ronan has a problem this whole book. How it was resolved was very clever and I loved that. The ending of the book and especially the epilogue was a good way to end everything. That said, I can’t stop wondering if the fans had been less toxic would this book have worked out the way it did. Fans were hounding her to write Adam/Ronan in highly sexualized terms for one and otherwise being insanely demanding of how their relationship should go (I liked how it ended) I will always wonder if Ronan was a guest star in his own damn book as a result of the toxicity and the author having had enough.
Greywaren is a very different ending to the Dreamer Trilogy than the one I thought I’d get. It puts its focus on the characters I was least invested in—I read this series for Ronan, and it’s frankly mind-boggling how unimportant he is for ⅔ of this book; as for Declan, I know I’m supposed to like him now, but I really don’t—and has a lot of twists that undo things that were set up from the very beginning of the Raven Cycle, and which aren’t especially satisfying retcons. I had a blast while I was reading this, and it did admittedly break me out of a bad reading slump that had been going for several months, I find that the more I think about it the more disappointed I am. It just didn’t feel like the right ending for the Dreamer Trilogy, with most of the emphasis being on things and characters I cared less about and leaving the biggest emotional question marks largely untouched until the very end. I’m disappointed in the last-act Ronan reveals, and bewildered by how little Jordan, Bryde, and the Lace figured into the end of the story. I think it largely boils down to one major question: who is your favorite Lynch brother? If it’s Ronan, you might be bummed by this ending. If it’s Declan, you’ll probably love it. I love Ronan, so I’m a little bummed. That said, the epilogue is perfect so it does go out on a good note.
adventurous
emotional
fast-paced
