Title: The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle #2)Publication Date: September 17th 2013
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Part of a Series?: Yes, Book 2/4 of The Raven Cycle
I Got A Copy Through: Scholastic India (THANK YOU!)
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Blurb Description: Eerie, romantic and compelling this supernatural love story weaves together ancient myths, forgotten legends and the strange fates of a young psychic and a group of prep school boys caught in a web of murder, mystery and magic!
If you could steal things from dreams, what would you take?
Ronan Lynch has secrets. Some he keeps from others. Some he keeps from himself.
One secret: Ronan can bring things out of his dreams.
And sometimes he’s not the only one who wants those things.
Ronan is one of the raven boys — a group of friends, practically brothers, searching for a dead king named Glendower, who they think is hidden somewhere in the hills by their elite private school, Aglionby Academy. The path to Glendower has long lived as an undercurrent beneath town. But now, like Ronan’s secrets, it is beginning to rise to the surface — changing everything in its wake.
'Of the Raven Boys, Entertainment Weekly' wrote, “Maggie Stiefvater’s can’t-put-it-down paranormal adventure will leave you clamoring for book two.” Now the second book is here, with the same wild imagination, dark romance and heart-stopping twists that only Maggie Stiefvater can conjure.
“In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her Raven Boys.”
In one word, I will proceed to describe this BEAUTIFUL
MONSTROSITY of a book: AAAAAAAHHHHHH.
Like I said in my review of The Raven Boys, I had
COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN how amazing this series was, the eccentricities and
personalities of each of the characters since when I read it three years ago, and
reading The Dream Thieves consecutively
after was SUCH A LITTLE TREAT, and I need more.
The Dream Thieves
picks up a little time after when The
Raven Boys ends, with the boys and Blue trying to find Glendower, and
dealing with *spoiler alert* Adam sacrificing himself willingly to wake the ley
line up and figuring out the repercussions, and Ronan trying to manage the
monsters in his dreams, and trying not to bring them back to real life.
While this book is slightly more angst-y, here are some of the things I LOVE:
1.
MAURA SARGENT AND THE GRAY MAN: I didn’t really care for Blue’s mother
in the first book (not because she was a BAD character, but because she didn’t
really have much of a purpose in book one) but with the Gray Man in the picture
(no spoilers on who he is. PFFT to all you people that love spoilers.) IT WAS
THE CUTEST THING EVER, and the two of them pretty much overtook all my shipping
capabilities!
2.
RONAN
LYNCH: I knew from book one that this BROKEN boy would undoubtedly be my
favourite character in the series, and I LOVED HIM SO MUCH IN THIS BOOK, I just
wanted to reach in (like the book was one of his dreams) and hug him close. (He
probably wouldn’t have appreciated it much, but HEY.) Ronan’s powers, coming to
terms with them, learning to use them and understanding that with great
responsibility comes with his power was so BEAUTIFULLY done, I give Steifvater
a standing ovation.
3. THE PLOT: I don’t think there’s a
better way to combine magic and reality and complex characters that what Maggie
Steifvater has done in The Raven Cycle. I ADORE that there is so much mysticism
and magic and love and friendship and pride in the air, combined with a quest
and the supernatural. It is the perfect
blend of our dry realities and all the unseen everyday magic and I LOVE IT.
Thing that I didn’t
love ALL that much:
1. THE ANGST: Unfortunately, there was a
TON of angst and self-loathing and UGH SO MUCH PAIN in this book, that it felt
a tad overdone (?) and I would have REALLY preferred more of the ACTUAL QUEST
over all the ANGST, but I will take in it stride nevertheless.
I’m going to sit here and slowly die until I get my hands on
Blue Lily, Lily Blue, but I CANNOT recommend (throw in your face) this series
more.
A Magic Filled, Dream Like Masterpiece that will have you questioning
the existence of your reality!
HAVE YOU READ THE RAVEN CYCLE? Who is your favourite Raven Boy?
Have you read any other Maggie Stiefvater books? Which books of her should I put on my immediate TBR?
What are your favourite books on magical realism?
I can't wait to hear your thoughts!
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