A review by cocoonofbooks
Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater

4.0

This was somewhere between 3.5 and 4 stars, but I'll round up because the ending tied everything up in a lovely way. I think Stiefvater is one of those world-builders who does her homework and ensures internal consistency in her world's magic, and yet it was hard at times not to feel like we were just being handed new versions of reality and asked to accept them and keep going, particularly when it came to everything involving Greywaren.

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Also, wasn't it implied that the only reason the bottle of ink was a sweetmetal was because of how it looked in the bottle, not the ink itself? How did they know it would stay a sweetmetal in Ronan's arm?

Did we ever get an explanation for

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how Jordan stayed awake so long after the ley line shut down

? All that aside, the best elements of this series — the witty dialogue, the fast-paced plot, the stellar audiobook narration — still made this easy to devour in less than a week. I don't know that I'd be as quick to recommend this series to others as I have been to recommend the Raven Cycle books, but I'm still not sad to have gotten this additional chapter in the lives of those characters, particularly the Lynch brothers.