Title:
The Dream Thieves
(The Raven Cycle #2)
The Dream Thieves
(The Raven Cycle #2)
Author:
Maggie Stiefvater
★★★☆☆
3 out of 5 stars
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.
This review contains
spoilers regarding “The Raven Boys”, the first book on “The Raven Cycle”.
You have been warned.
The Dream Thieves picks
up where The Raven Boys left, with Blue and the boys still on the hunt for the
Welsh king, the ley lines awakened, Adam de attaching from the group after his
sacrifice, and Ronan pulling objects out of his dreams. It isn’t an action
packed book and to be honest the story itself is slow paced which at times gets
to be a little bit annoying, but there is just so much magic that I can’t not
keep reading.
We are introduced to
new antagonists that are very different from each other and have with different
goals that pin point to the same place, or in this case, person: Ronan Lynch. After
this book Ronan has become my favorite character of the saga, we get to know
much more about the way he thinks, and his secrets are so juicy! I just felt so
much for this boy.
But I have to be honest
and say that even though I loved Ronan, the book itself doesn’t really add
anything important to the hunt, the story is too centric and at moments the
rest of the characters feel purposeless at times (Noah), the relationship
between Blue and Gansey barely develops, and Adam’s sacrifice feels so
unimportant even though I know how significant it was. I missed how the storyline
on the Raven Boys was vaster, with so many things happening all at the same
time, all pointing to the rest of the series, but with The Dream Thieves I felt
I hit the pause button.
The character
development of Ronan absolutely made this book for me. I got to know much more
about him that I couldn’t help but fall in love and wish I could pulling things
out of my dreams too (books, I would pull out books!). Seriously, if it weren’t
for Ronan I would have dropped the series.
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