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4.31 AVERAGE
4.31 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
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
Tears first review later
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And now we can finally sleep peacefully.
What a ride! The conclusion to the Dreamer trilogy, and with it the Raven Cycle saga, did not disappoint. Not only did it take my hand to yank me out of a reading slump, but also to guide me towards kindness to ourselves and the world around us. For all its chaos and pain, the trilogy is about peace and love. Call me idealistic, but I think books with attention for mental health and respect for nature are much needed in our world. I adored every single line I read. Thanks to Maggie, I’m looking at the world a little more awake today, and all I can see is dreams.
Massive thanks to my sweetmetal Aïda for helping me stay awake during this emotional rollercoaster
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And now we can finally sleep peacefully.
What a ride! The conclusion to the Dreamer trilogy, and with it the Raven Cycle saga, did not disappoint. Not only did it take my hand to yank me out of a reading slump, but also to guide me towards kindness to ourselves and the world around us. For all its chaos and pain, the trilogy is about peace and love. Call me idealistic, but I think books with attention for mental health and respect for nature are much needed in our world. I adored every single line I read. Thanks to Maggie, I’m looking at the world a little more awake today, and all I can see is dreams.
Massive thanks to my sweetmetal Aïda for helping me stay awake during this emotional rollercoaster
if you had told me two years ago that i would be NEAR TEARS after finishing this book (or reading it at all), i would’ve laughed in your face. because let’s be honest, most spin-off series in the YA world do not live up to the hype or the expectations or the original series. and in many ways, this book did not do that. if you’re going into the dreamer trilogy looking for the raven cycle, you won’t find it.
but. this finale is as close as we’re going to get and i for one am EMOTIONAL!
i think you have to take what you can get from this trilogy - which is to say, take the character development and leave everything else. i barely paid attention to the actual conflict/plot of this book. i sped through most of it because it’s irrelevant, poorly plotted, and you can tell that maggie wasn’t really invested in it (i don’t blame her, this is scholastic’s fault!) however…the cHARACTERS? the BROTHERS LYNCH? tHE ADAM PARRISH? giving me too many feelings at 2am, i have to say.
while this book will never make up for the atrocities of mister impossible (gag) or even the weirdness in CDTH, i am shocked to say that i absolutely loved this book. i think it really explores family and love and the idea of the Self and at the end of it all, i feel a little lighter having read it. i think the backstory on the lynch family was actually kind of magical (okay, a lot magical lol), and i loved how we fINALLY got some good pynch content for ONCE! i wish we could’ve gotten to see this trilogy as maggie intended, as an adult think piece rather than a YA apocalypse story (blah), but i am incredibly grateful that she found a way to wrap up the emotional ends of this world in a way that was just…happy. the epilogue made me feel insane, but there were so many little quotes here and there throughout the book that really were classic stiefvater thinkpieces. i think in the end this book made me really grateful to have these characters and it made me appreciate the raven cycle in a new way. and honestly, it’s a much more adult end than TRC i think because i think as you grow up, you start forgiving people more and realizing that some things aren’t worth fighting about if it means losing the ones you really care about.
also the whole “ronan is a sentient forest god” storyline with him splitting himself into different versions of himself was sooooo fascinating and i’m obsessed with it!!!!
that scene where matthew and bryde hang out is one of the funniest things i’ve read in aGES
the number of times that ronan was just like “MY ADAM” ……….
the fact that adam was like “actually no fuck ronan i will not help you save him” and then two days later was like “alright so i had to go get your metaphorical heart from connecticut but here it is, i love you, i always will”
AND THE FACT THAT HENNESEY BROUGHT ADAM BACK TO LIFE FOR RONAN……
DECLAN RELEASING THAT SILLY LITTLE MOTH INTO THE SKY AND CRYING…….
also the last scene………….head very full
but. this finale is as close as we’re going to get and i for one am EMOTIONAL!
i think you have to take what you can get from this trilogy - which is to say, take the character development and leave everything else. i barely paid attention to the actual conflict/plot of this book. i sped through most of it because it’s irrelevant, poorly plotted, and you can tell that maggie wasn’t really invested in it (i don’t blame her, this is scholastic’s fault!) however…the cHARACTERS? the BROTHERS LYNCH? tHE ADAM PARRISH? giving me too many feelings at 2am, i have to say.
while this book will never make up for the atrocities of mister impossible (gag) or even the weirdness in CDTH, i am shocked to say that i absolutely loved this book. i think it really explores family and love and the idea of the Self and at the end of it all, i feel a little lighter having read it. i think the backstory on the lynch family was actually kind of magical (okay, a lot magical lol), and i loved how we fINALLY got some good pynch content for ONCE! i wish we could’ve gotten to see this trilogy as maggie intended, as an adult think piece rather than a YA apocalypse story (blah), but i am incredibly grateful that she found a way to wrap up the emotional ends of this world in a way that was just…happy. the epilogue made me feel insane, but there were so many little quotes here and there throughout the book that really were classic stiefvater thinkpieces. i think in the end this book made me really grateful to have these characters and it made me appreciate the raven cycle in a new way. and honestly, it’s a much more adult end than TRC i think because i think as you grow up, you start forgiving people more and realizing that some things aren’t worth fighting about if it means losing the ones you really care about.
also the whole “ronan is a sentient forest god” storyline with him splitting himself into different versions of himself was sooooo fascinating and i’m obsessed with it!!!!
that scene where matthew and bryde hang out is one of the funniest things i’ve read in aGES
the number of times that ronan was just like “MY ADAM” ……….
the fact that adam was like “actually no fuck ronan i will not help you save him” and then two days later was like “alright so i had to go get your metaphorical heart from connecticut but here it is, i love you, i always will”
AND THE FACT THAT HENNESEY BROUGHT ADAM BACK TO LIFE FOR RONAN……
DECLAN RELEASING THAT SILLY LITTLE MOTH INTO THE SKY AND CRYING…….
also the last scene………….head very full
adventurous
dark
inspiring
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Oh, where to begin. This book really just changed it for me. While reading the first two books of the trilogy I couldn't help but be disappointed because I found it lacking the magic of the prequels. I wanted Blue and her Raven Boys, I wanted more of The Raven Cycle, unfair perhaps, but true nonetheless. This book reminded me of the magic that is Stiefvater and left me in awe. What a pleasure it's been to really know the Lynch brothers. It's been a dream (pun intended), and I highly recommend you read it. Read all of it, The Raven Cycle and The Dreamers Trilogy. As I will, again and again.
adventurous
emotional
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:
Complicated
I finished The Raven Cycle in high school and The Dreamer Trilogy came out while I was in college so I felt I had grown with the series. It took me a while to get into the groove of reading with the back and forth in the abundance of characters, but I’m glad I finished the book. I can’t believe that I was rooting for Declan when I had previously thought nothing of him. The long haul for the character growth (for anybody in the series) is worth it. There were some parts where I thought “wow that’s corny” but then a few pages later I’d be rereading a great line. Not all of it was the Best writing and I missed some of the banter from before, but that doesn’t change the fact that it was a good book. The lack of Ronan did drop it from 5 stars unfortunately.
I can't express how much this meant to me, it pulled me right out of my months long reading slump and made me actually excited to read in a way I haven't been in ages.