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ebonwilde's Reviews (901)
this was... soft and cozy. hot chocolate on a winter morning. the feeling of curling under a blanket when the rain patters against your window. i'm not exceptionally obsessed with this like i thought i would be, but it was a lovely, poignant read. maybe it's because the two books i read before this were a bit.. underedited shall we say, or maybe it's just steifvater's writing quality itself, but this is a fantasy that actually feels like a fantasy. dreamy, ethereal, witchlights strung up in the whispering woods, faerie revels under the full moon. stunning.
want is very short for high stakes dystopian fiction, which makes it difficult to connect with most of the characters/events. two characters died, which was meant to be very important for the narrative, yet it was unemotional for me, even though the author attempted to make the mood despairing. the prose itself is not adequate at expressing emotion, danger, or anything too high stakes, so the book felt quite mellow throughout, which was clearly not the intention. i did like the romance, and if nothing else, it was a moderately enjoyable read. 3.5 stars.
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this was very... meh. i didn't exactly hate it, but it was a very underwhelming finish to the series. i also just don't understand it? the plot isn't too difficult to follow, but i do not get the why. why did anything in this book, or even series, happen? we were definitely going somewhere in the dream thieves, but then it just kept going south. i feel like i would give this much more grace if it was high fantasy. however, the idea of a group of 16 year olds *in contemporary society* running around trying to bring back a thousand year old welsh king back from the dead simply because one of them had a hallucination when he was 10 requires a deep suspension of disbelief. and the fact that everyone allows gansey to do so is just as insane (henry immediately agreeing that it's a perfectly sane endeavor despite having no prior association with this ??). i understood the reasoning in the first two books, and it definitely should have ended there, because this book just drags on and on and on about nothing. it has one of the most pointless endings i've ever read.
one thing i will say is that blue and gansey were adorable. they always are, but in this one, just more so.
one thing i will say is that blue and gansey were adorable. they always are, but in this one, just more so.