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naarcizse's review against another edition
5.0
Loved to meet up with the team once again; I missed them! It was such a great second book, I really like it !
bookdragonism's review against another edition
5.0
This book blurred the lines between dreams and reality, good and bad, dragons and dream horrors, and broccoli and bacon which goes to say that The Dream Thieves was a VERY DELIGHTFUL READ.
Hands down to the witty dialogues and the exquisite character developments. I DEVOURED EVERY BLUE AND GANSEY MOMENT. I LOVE HOW RONAN SEEMS TO BE A SLYTHERIN AND A HUFFLEPUFF. I LIKE HOW ADAM EVOLVED FROM ANNOYING TO TOLERABLE. MY HEART ACHED FOR NOAH. AND THE GRAY MAN WAS SO GRAY OH GODS. This book made me laugh, scream (soundlessly), bite my nails, and shout "DRAGONS" because what else will a bookdragon do?
Some things I loved in this book: (warning: spoilers ahead)
-BLUE AND GANSEY WAAAAH
-Ronan being a very good mom to Chainsaw (is Ronan gay???)
-The Gray Man being physically and morally gray
-Blue finally dumping Adam
-Blue finally falling in love with Gansey
-My heart popping everytime I read "Gansey"
-The plot bomb called Joseph Kavinsky
-DRAGONS
-RAVENS
-DRAGONS AND RAVENS
I can't get enough of the Raven Cycle. Too much feels. FEELS. FEELS. FEELS. Bye. I'm going to keep screaming soundlessly here.
-R
Hands down to the witty dialogues and the exquisite character developments. I DEVOURED EVERY BLUE AND GANSEY MOMENT. I LOVE HOW RONAN SEEMS TO BE A SLYTHERIN AND A HUFFLEPUFF. I LIKE HOW ADAM EVOLVED FROM ANNOYING TO TOLERABLE. MY HEART ACHED FOR NOAH. AND THE GRAY MAN WAS SO GRAY OH GODS. This book made me laugh, scream (soundlessly), bite my nails, and shout "DRAGONS" because what else will a bookdragon do?
Some things I loved in this book: (warning: spoilers ahead)
-BLUE AND GANSEY WAAAAH
-Ronan being a very good mom to Chainsaw (is Ronan gay???)
-The Gray Man being physically and morally gray
-Blue finally dumping Adam
-Blue finally falling in love with Gansey
-My heart popping everytime I read "Gansey"
-The plot bomb called Joseph Kavinsky
-DRAGONS
-RAVENS
-DRAGONS AND RAVENS
I can't get enough of the Raven Cycle. Too much feels. FEELS. FEELS. FEELS. Bye. I'm going to keep screaming soundlessly here.
-R
xavierprice's review against another edition
5.0
I must be stopped.....
Must take a break before reading BLLB....
Bump that
Must take a break before reading BLLB....
Bump that
proteinscollide's review against another edition
3.0
This might be my favourite of the series so far with the evocative, lovely writing of Ronan's dreams, which is a story idea that I do love and am fascinated by. PS I 100% would like one character not to have died here because I ship Ronan and that person something fierce.
rachelbug's review against another edition
5.0
every time i reread this series, this one always takes me the longest and i’m not sure why
cellular_cosmogony's review against another edition
3.0
This is not review but an answer to the question: Why does every Eastern European have to be a villainous mobster? (TLDR: it's xenophobia)
The existence of Kavinsky is very funny to me as a Bulgarian. Firstly, his surname isn’t Bulgarian and his name isn’t even Slavic. Let’s face it - the type of Bulgarians who’d raise a child with this levels of internalized homophobia wouldn’t give him a western name. He’d be called something like Kubrat. We even have our own version of Joseph – Yosif. Idk if Prokopenko is supposed to be Bulgarian as well but his name sure isn’t. If Maggie Steifvater could find a Bulgarian song for him to listen to (Bela Jiga by Upsurt - it's a pretty good choice though I think of him as a chalga listener), there was literally nothing stopping her from googling “Bulgarian names” to make sure her choice was accurate.
I also found the overall writing of the character to be kind of xenophobic – he is routinely othered by the protagonists of the series and this is never addressed as unacceptable. He’s described as having a “refugee’s face” and as being “an import from somewhere” in their internal narration, and Ronan even calls him Russian as an insult, even though he’s aware Kavinsky’s a Bulgarian. This is never addressed as the xenophobic action it is, and also happens to Persephone, who is Estonian, and is routinely called Russian by her friends (she corrects them and they still do it). Kavinsky being the son of a mobster is very stereotypical as well. In general most of the times him being Slavic/Eastern European is brought up it’s either to call him a mobster and/or to insult him.
I know a lot of Bulgarian foks are happy that there is a Bulgarian character in the book in the first place, and that he listens to Upsurt, but you can't really deny that the music was probably the entirety of research that was put into his character, and the rest is just tired stereotypes.
The existence of Kavinsky is very funny to me as a Bulgarian. Firstly, his surname isn’t Bulgarian and his name isn’t even Slavic. Let’s face it - the type of Bulgarians who’d raise a child with this levels of internalized homophobia wouldn’t give him a western name. He’d be called something like Kubrat. We even have our own version of Joseph – Yosif. Idk if Prokopenko is supposed to be Bulgarian as well but his name sure isn’t. If Maggie Steifvater could find a Bulgarian song for him to listen to (Bela Jiga by Upsurt - it's a pretty good choice though I think of him as a chalga listener), there was literally nothing stopping her from googling “Bulgarian names” to make sure her choice was accurate.
I also found the overall writing of the character to be kind of xenophobic – he is routinely othered by the protagonists of the series and this is never addressed as unacceptable. He’s described as having a “refugee’s face” and as being “an import from somewhere” in their internal narration, and Ronan even calls him Russian as an insult, even though he’s aware Kavinsky’s a Bulgarian. This is never addressed as the xenophobic action it is, and also happens to Persephone, who is Estonian, and is routinely called Russian by her friends (she corrects them and they still do it). Kavinsky being the son of a mobster is very stereotypical as well. In general most of the times him being Slavic/Eastern European is brought up it’s either to call him a mobster and/or to insult him.
I know a lot of Bulgarian foks are happy that there is a Bulgarian character in the book in the first place, and that he listens to Upsurt, but you can't really deny that the music was probably the entirety of research that was put into his character, and the rest is just tired stereotypes.
carstairs21's review against another edition
adventurous
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
4.5
violetlunablossom's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25