Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher/Year: Scholastic Press/2013
Series: Yes, The Raven Cycle, Book 2
Source: Purchased
Goodreads / Author's Website
Summary
Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same.
Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life.
Meanwhile, some very sinister people are looking for some of the same pieces of the Cabeswater puzzle that Gansey is after...
Thoughts and Reactions
In writing my review for this novel I realized
that I never actually posted, or wrote, my review for The Raven Boys, the first novel
of the series. Suffice to say, I loved it. I loved it so much that upon
finishing it I pretty much immediately purchased it's sequel. However, that was
a year ago and I just finished The
Dream Thieves. That has
nothing to do with the book and everything to do with my head space at the
time.
I picked up The Dream Thieves time and
time again with the intention of reading it, but for whatever reason I could
not get passed the first few chapters. I put it down and came back to it about
a week ago. I was hooked. It picks up right near where The Raven Boys left off. Adam has recently woken
the ley line and nobody's sure how to act around him. Noah is becoming
increasingly dim as the line is surging and causing power outages across
Henrietta. Everybody now knows that Ronan can take objects from dreams and
that's really the focus of this book.
Ronan is an interesting and complex character;
although he wasn’t my favourite going it, he grew on me as I felt like this
novel really introduces us to him. He comes across as brash, but only because
he cares so much. He has this ability that he doesn’t understand; one that may
or may not have had something to do with his father’s death is and he’s still
trying to figure himself out. The Dream
Thieves really paints him in a more sympathetic light since you really get
to see his perspective.
The title essentially sums up the book. Unlike The Raven Boys where the boys and Blue
are trying to find a mystical ley line, but it is mostly rooted in reality, The Dream Thieves expands upon this
mystical world. Friends are dead but in the land of the living and Ronan can
take things from dreams. It’s crazy and thrilling. It didn’t feel like a departure
so much as a ramping up of the action and the world’s magical nature.
I’m not sure what else to say about this book
as I don’t want to ruin it for anybody who has not already read it, but it
thoroughly gripped me. Henrietta is more dangerous now that the line has been
woken and more people are out to find it. The characters are dealing with
things that they don’t fully understand and it is so exciting for the reader. I
love the characterizations and how fully each character is being developed. The
relationships forming between them feel real and fractured and I can’t think of
a single character who I don’t like. Even the characters who I don’t like,
villains like Kapuscinki, have more than one dimension and are compelling.
I am now thoroughly invested in the Raven Cycle
and cannot wait to read Blue Lily, Lily
Blue. I don’t often read series because I find myself getting bored halfway
through, but this is one that I’m more than happy to continue.
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