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Greywaren

Maggie Stiefvater

4.31 AVERAGE

valerlance's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional fast-paced

nekomomo's review against another edition

4.0

no one talk to me, i am not okay

athena21's review against another edition

5.0

I cried while reading this book. I cry while reading many books; I am a person of intensely felt emotions. But this one I cried ugly, ugly tears over in the back of a taxi. And then I cried again, softly, silently, in the cramped seat of a flight home. This book was always going to be a lot for me. The Raven Cycle, and then The Dreamer Trilogy, were important places for me, safe havens where things were weird and magical and not always OK. Books about friendship and family and love and awesome fucking swords. I put off reading this book for months after its release, despite having had that date in my calendar for going on a year, because I was terrified for it to finish. In the end, I read it over the days bookending New Years'. Endings, and new beginnings, I guess. And it was weird and magical and not always OK, but most importantly it was also home, in a time when I was away from home. This isn't really a review of the book, which deserves one, deserves to be considered on its own merits, of which there are many. Stiefvater's characters remain as vibrant as ever, plots remain intricate and confusing, and there are real punch-in-the-gut consequences too. But really, this is a review of how this book made me feel. Which was, well, a lot, if you couldn't tell. But threaded through all of these emotions was a love for this world, and characters, and story, and also a safety. Because yes, things aren't always OK. But they also are, and there's still beauty either way. More than any other in this series, this is a book about magic, and also about humanity - not in a broad sense, but in all its minutiae and specificity. I could talk all day about Stievater's fantastic metaphor for disability, or for depression, her crafting of scenes. But when it all comes down to it, I'll just say this: this book is a sweetmetal.

_amanda_h's review against another edition

5.0

A trilogy that stuck the landing thank god I won't be vexed to nightmare over this

manthesea's review against another edition

3.0

kind of underwhelming but tbh i can't judge this book all that much because i just read it for pynch. hit me with a lot of nostalgia tho, things can never be the same again, school days just don't come back. the gangsey is so special to me i miss them sm

salomia's review

4.0

I quite enjoyed Dreamer Trilogy, although at the end of the day I don’t really understand Nathan’s motivations. As far as I can understand, he wanted to kill everyone except dreamers but then why did he organise for the Moderators to kill them? I’m confused but I enjoyed reading about the Lynch brothers. And the relationship between Niall and Declan was so heartwarming and touching and I cried. And the fact that Declan loved Ronan before anyone did, I just can’t.

“Niall had stayed, always choosing Declan, a life with Declan beside him as much as possible. A life with Ronan, because Declan had cared for him when no one else yet did.”