The Dream Thieves - Review

"And now we never speak of it again."

4 of 5 stars

I started this book because I read the first book of the Raven Cycle, "The Raven Boys" and I wanted to know where the story was going and how the characters

would evolve. Plus, this book had to be more entered around my favourite character: Ronan. Well, I have to admit I liked this book better that the previous one. Not that "The Raven Boys" wasn't likeable with the pursuit of the Holy Grail Glendower (Who is he? Well... Owain Glyndwr was a medieval Welsh noble, who was said to have some powers like invisibility and such and... "Have you heard of the legends of sleeping kings? The legends that heroes like Llewellyn and Glendower and Arthur aren’t really dead, but are instead sleeping in tombs, waiting to be woken up?”), and the strange relationships between the characters, but I did not get why I was supposed to like the characters, not really at least. All, that changed with this book, because you can actually know other sides of them, like of Gansey (just saying). I also liked that the author thought it could be a good idea to speed up the pace a bit, the first book was sometimes too slow and retraining its own steps too much. This book doesn't, the chapters follow one another easily and with more force than before, also thanks to the introduction of a couple of new characters—I like to call them "elements of disturbance"—that are more powerful than the sad dude we met in the previous instalment of the series. I liked the mild reference to the love triangles and such (the hints at new possibilities and discoveries are the best part I suppose) because after all, it can just only be about Blue's impossibility to kiss her true love since she (supposedly) will kill him. There has to be more out there, even if every now and then we all have to go back to solid ground and expand the characters' lives apart from the research and the magic world where they find themselves. Also, good job with the cliffhanger ending Maggie! I appreciate it more even more after the good final chapters before the epilogue you had just pulled off.

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