The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
The Raven Cycle book two
This book continues the story of the Aglionby boys and Blue Sargent that Maggie Stiefvater spins in the first book, The Raven Boys. While the story again focuses on Gansey's quest to find a dead Welsh king, Glendower, there are many new developments.
Gansey is getting further away and yet closer than every before as there are problems with the ley line in Henrietta. Adam is dealing with the consequences of the deal he made with Cabeswater, as well as the other challenges his life presented to him in the form of his anger, his bills, and his feeling of inadequacy. And of course there is Ronan Lynch. Ronan has revealed his power of pulling things from his dreams, and Gansey feels this brings them closer to the location of Glendower, who always traveled with a magician. Ronan is not so willing, and the objects he pulls from his dreams are rarely pleasant and often unintentional and dangerous.
The final Raven Boy, Noah, is missing for most of the story as he relies on the ley line for his energy, and the ley line is surging and vanishing in mysterious ways. Through all this, Blue is still haunted by her curse and the secret she learned on St. Mark's Eve. Her relationship with Adam is suffering as they each struggle with their separate challenges, and there is still something mysterious happening in the house on Fox Way.
Again Maggie Stiefvater's writing stuns and amazes readers as she carries us through Henrietta and across the ley lines, into lakes and open fields. We meet the Gansey family and see Dick Gansey III in an element of sophistication, and we see how he hates it. We sit with Adam in his crowded room with the nuns as he receives news of financial coincidences he sees as controlling and charity rather than a kindness. We follow Blue as she tries to really be one of the Raven Boys in this group we've come to love, while also being a heroic independent woman we all admire. We watch Noah flicker and disappear, and relive his death, and remember the horrors that happened to him and how young he really is. We see Ronan, making his typical bad decisions, but we learn why and how and what and who and when, and we know and ache as he sits with Kavinsky and tries to fix what is broken. We meet the Gray Man, and want to dislike him because of what he stands for, but find he is charming, for a hit man. We see more of Persephone and really understand that she is strange. We see new characters and understand the old characters in new ways. This book gives us a more in depth look at our favorites while also spinning us along the dangerous thread of life as a Raven Boy.
You can find more about Maggie Stiefvater and the Raven Cycle here.
I also blogged about her here, and the post about the Raven Boys is here.
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| Image from goodreads.com |
Gansey is getting further away and yet closer than every before as there are problems with the ley line in Henrietta. Adam is dealing with the consequences of the deal he made with Cabeswater, as well as the other challenges his life presented to him in the form of his anger, his bills, and his feeling of inadequacy. And of course there is Ronan Lynch. Ronan has revealed his power of pulling things from his dreams, and Gansey feels this brings them closer to the location of Glendower, who always traveled with a magician. Ronan is not so willing, and the objects he pulls from his dreams are rarely pleasant and often unintentional and dangerous.
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| Incredible Ronan art by @ehmeeyu on tumblr.com |
Again Maggie Stiefvater's writing stuns and amazes readers as she carries us through Henrietta and across the ley lines, into lakes and open fields. We meet the Gansey family and see Dick Gansey III in an element of sophistication, and we see how he hates it. We sit with Adam in his crowded room with the nuns as he receives news of financial coincidences he sees as controlling and charity rather than a kindness. We follow Blue as she tries to really be one of the Raven Boys in this group we've come to love, while also being a heroic independent woman we all admire. We watch Noah flicker and disappear, and relive his death, and remember the horrors that happened to him and how young he really is. We see Ronan, making his typical bad decisions, but we learn why and how and what and who and when, and we know and ache as he sits with Kavinsky and tries to fix what is broken. We meet the Gray Man, and want to dislike him because of what he stands for, but find he is charming, for a hit man. We see more of Persephone and really understand that she is strange. We see new characters and understand the old characters in new ways. This book gives us a more in depth look at our favorites while also spinning us along the dangerous thread of life as a Raven Boy.
You can find more about Maggie Stiefvater and the Raven Cycle here.
I also blogged about her here, and the post about the Raven Boys is here.
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