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4.31 AVERAGE
4.31 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-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
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
ouch. made my Blood ache in the haphazard way certain things do. Fuck!
adventurous
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
sad
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
This has to be the book in this trilogy that I had the most fun with and, probably, the worst book Stiefvater has ever written, and I still loved it.
So I started this book more than a month ago not wanting to read it at all and, therefore, instantly hating it. I read one chapter and proceeded to abandon it, until last week. I decided to pick it back up and to my surprise, I found myself completely hooked. I immediately remembered how much I loved Hennessy in book 2 and became excited to see what her dynamic with Farooq would bring forward AND BOY WAS I IN FOR THE BEST TREAT.
This book follows after some dreams fall asleep, some don't for reasons I did not fully get, and Ronan falls asleep WHAAAAAT yes. Bryde tries stealing a painting that is a sweetmetal, and gets caught. Declan calls Adam for help, and they take Ronan to a mural that is a sweetmetal (not strong enough to wake him tho) so that the nightwash doesn't kill him. Declan has taken Matthew's sweetmetal so he is asleep aswell.
Farooq finds out Nathan is behind the moderators, that they are all dreams, that the visionaries are dreams aswell and that the difference is that they have chosen to not depend on their dreamers.
Ronan is in a ghost state. Adam gets lost on the other side and then is kidnapped by Nathan.
Declan bonds with his father's clone and finds out he was his father's favorite after all.
Ronan wakes with a tattoo (Henessy can paint sweetmetals), and they go save Adam and Jordan from Nathan who asks them in return to wake the leyline, which Ronan does since he is the Greywaren. Nathan dreams up a nuclear bomb, Ronan dreams up a fire that eats the bomb's destruction, they kill Nathan everyone is happy, and get married. Also, halfway through they want us to think Matthew is dead, Bryde is dead, Declan is dead, Farooq is dead, Adam is dead, Hennessy is dead, YEP none of them were dead.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
While reading the book I had so much fun that I sort of blocked everything wrong with it, but I truly think this is Stiefvater's laziest work.
For starters IT WAS SO SOAP OPERA, like always someone getting shot, bombed, or whatever, AND SURVIVING likeeee If you want me to buy that these characters are in real danger DO NOT DO THIS, AND IF YOU DO JUST KILL 1 OFF SO WE CAN BE SCARED. Only Liliana died and as a sacrifice and we didn't even get time to mourn her. While we get plenty of time to mourn Matthew WHO WAS NOT EVEN DEAD.
Then I feel like this series re-writes a lot of things from the first series, and that is okay, but this book truly went past its limit in this with the story of Declan's past. Like, his whole thing was being the most unloved member of the family, and the one that was expected to be an adult since he was a kid, and that is why he is this way AND NOW YOU ARE TELLING ME THAT DECLAN AND US GOT THAT WRONG?? THAT HE WAS HIS MOTHER'S AND DAD'S FAVORITE AND THAT THEY LOVED HIM SO MUCH THTA THEY SACRIFED EVERYTHING FOR HIM, AND THAT THE REASON NIALL BROUGHT DECLAN TO ALL HIS DARK MEETINGS WAS NOT SO HE COULD TAKE CARE OF THE BUSINESS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BUT RATHER BC HE LOVED HIM SO MUCH HE WANTED TO TAKE HIM EVERYWHERE WITH HIM?? AND THAT HE DIDN'T REMEMBER DECLAN'S BIRTH BC IT WAS THE HAPPIEST DAY OF HIS LIFE SO HE WANTED TO ERASE IT FROM HIS MEMORY??? WHATTTTTT that is crazy and went too far. It doesn't make any sense.
Also, Declan does so many wrong things that never get adressed again, we skip over them, and now he doesn't even have a good reason behind acting like this, like his childhood was okay ?? I used to love Declan, and I feel like what he does in this book is really interesting, but just not well written, it doesn't make much sense, or it is left unfinished.
Also instead of having everything sort of wrapped-up in the Epilogue in that beautifull Stiefvater way, she decided to do the most basic ending of all times: a Wedding. WHO WROTE THIS?? JK ROWLING?? I hate endings that skip to the future and are basically: And everyone is still together, married, with a child, and happy forever, THE END. It feels so out of place in this series.
On the other hand, I think I had more fun with this book because of the focus drifting from Ronan and Declan, and Farooq and Hennessy taking more of the center stage, but the again I wish we had more Farooq and Hennessy in the end :( it's like maggie forgets about them once Ronan wakes.
Hennessy is such an amazing, cool, interesting, and fun character to read, I deeply love her.
This is a truly cool world and I love that all these complicated magic mysteries/powers always end up being solved by one simple explanation: they are a dream. And I never get tired of it, it seems intrinsical but you never think about that being it.
So I started this book more than a month ago not wanting to read it at all and, therefore, instantly hating it. I read one chapter and proceeded to abandon it, until last week. I decided to pick it back up and to my surprise, I found myself completely hooked. I immediately remembered how much I loved Hennessy in book 2 and became excited to see what her dynamic with Farooq would bring forward AND BOY WAS I IN FOR THE BEST TREAT.
Farooq finds out Nathan is behind the moderators, that they are all dreams, that the visionaries are dreams aswell and that the difference is that they have chosen to not depend on their dreamers.
Ronan is in a ghost state. Adam gets lost on the other side and then is kidnapped by Nathan.
Declan bonds with his father's clone and finds out he was his father's favorite after all.
Ronan wakes with a tattoo (Henessy can paint sweetmetals), and they go save Adam and Jordan from Nathan who asks them in return to wake the leyline, which Ronan does since he is the Greywaren. Nathan dreams up a nuclear bomb, Ronan dreams up a fire that eats the bomb's destruction, they kill Nathan everyone is happy, and get married. Also, halfway through they want us to think Matthew is dead, Bryde is dead, Declan is dead, Farooq is dead, Adam is dead, Hennessy is dead, YEP none of them were dead.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
While reading the book I had so much fun that I sort of blocked everything wrong with it, but I truly think this is Stiefvater's laziest work.
For starters IT WAS SO SOAP OPERA, like always someone getting shot, bombed, or whatever, AND SURVIVING likeeee If you want me to buy that these characters are in real danger DO NOT DO THIS, AND IF YOU DO JUST KILL 1 OFF SO WE CAN BE SCARED. Only Liliana died and as a sacrifice and we didn't even get time to mourn her. While we get plenty of time to mourn Matthew WHO WAS NOT EVEN DEAD.
Then I feel like this series re-writes a lot of things from the first series, and that is okay, but this book truly went past its limit in this with the story of Declan's past. Like, his whole thing was being the most unloved member of the family, and the one that was expected to be an adult since he was a kid, and that is why he is this way AND NOW YOU ARE TELLING ME THAT DECLAN AND US GOT THAT WRONG?? THAT HE WAS HIS MOTHER'S AND DAD'S FAVORITE AND THAT THEY LOVED HIM SO MUCH THTA THEY SACRIFED EVERYTHING FOR HIM, AND THAT THE REASON NIALL BROUGHT DECLAN TO ALL HIS DARK MEETINGS WAS NOT SO HE COULD TAKE CARE OF THE BUSINESS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BUT RATHER BC HE LOVED HIM SO MUCH HE WANTED TO TAKE HIM EVERYWHERE WITH HIM?? AND THAT HE DIDN'T REMEMBER DECLAN'S BIRTH BC IT WAS THE HAPPIEST DAY OF HIS LIFE SO HE WANTED TO ERASE IT FROM HIS MEMORY??? WHATTTTTT that is crazy and went too far. It doesn't make any sense.
Also, Declan does so many wrong things that never get adressed again, we skip over them, and now he doesn't even have a good reason behind acting like this, like his childhood was okay ?? I used to love Declan, and I feel like what he does in this book is really interesting, but just not well written, it doesn't make much sense, or it is left unfinished.
Also instead of having everything sort of wrapped-up in the Epilogue in that beautifull Stiefvater way, she decided to do the most basic ending of all times: a Wedding. WHO WROTE THIS?? JK ROWLING?? I hate endings that skip to the future and are basically: And everyone is still together, married, with a child, and happy forever, THE END. It feels so out of place in this series.
On the other hand, I think I had more fun with this book because of the focus drifting from Ronan and Declan, and Farooq and Hennessy taking more of the center stage, but the again I wish we had more Farooq and Hennessy in the end :( it's like maggie forgets about them once Ronan wakes.
Hennessy is such an amazing, cool, interesting, and fun character to read, I deeply love her.
This is a truly cool world and I love that all these complicated magic mysteries/powers always end up being solved by one simple explanation: they are a dream. And I never get tired of it, it seems intrinsical but you never think about that being it.
adventurous
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
The finale in which all of our questions are answered.
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
mysterious
tense
slow-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
floor time. i need floor time and a pack of cigarettes to pretend to smoke to unpack that last 50 or so pages.
probably the strongest of the trilogy but idk if that says a ton, like i enjoyed the adventure of this and i enjoyed my new besties jordan and declan but my brain was just like yeah ok 👍 i guess that happened for sooooooo much plot. i understand whybryde means essentially nothing in this book but he was built up sooooo much in the first two books and he’s kind of just there occasionally in this one doing fuckall except for that one exchange with matthew like i know he’s depressed but 😭 !!! and so many other characters are sort of sidelined indefinitely until a plot reason comes up and they can serve That specific purpose then disappear again. which makes me crazy. because the best of this book IS the character work maggie should be (is?) known for, and the lynch brothers specifically are treated to a very well rounded, conclusive and almost self contained narrative in this. like there’s other stuff going on but it’s also just about those brothers choosing to be brothers. and going through it together. and that alone is a good story which is why i rated this so high but my god. maggie. let’s defeat the beast that is plot structure together someday
probably the strongest of the trilogy but idk if that says a ton, like i enjoyed the adventure of this and i enjoyed my new besties jordan and declan but my brain was just like yeah ok 👍 i guess that happened for sooooooo much plot. i understand why