Poudelivre

Right after I finished The Raven Boys for a second time I picked up its sequel, The Dream Thieves, just as I said. Here are my thoughts about the book and a quick summery of it; for the original review from last year, click here.

Amidst Gansey's quest of finding the sleeping Welsh king, Owen Glendower, Ronan is battling a war of his own. He has a secret and that secret is that he can bring things out of his dreams. For the most part, those things are crazy weird or downright horrible, but at times they can prove themselves useful. He doesn't know quite what he is but realizes that his ability is far from normal. And, with all things not normal, he attract attention from curious people. They call him the Greywaren but they don't know that they're looking for a boy rather than an object. However, it isn't as much a question of if rather than when someone will realize that he is the thing they've been searching for.

After the foundation in The Raven Boys, Maggie Stiefvater brings us along on a journey slightly darker and mostly seen from Ronan's perspective. The Dream Thieves tells a story about nightmares and the darkest creatures living inside someone's head. It's a story about all the things you want and all the things you can't have. A story quite unlike anything I've read before and, I'm pretty certain, anything you've read as well. Loveable characters from the first book reappears, all four of the raven boys, Blue and of course most women at 300 Fox Way. We meet the Gray Man and Joseph Kavinsky for the first time and each of them brings something new to the story. It's still all about the search for Glendower and all about the friendship between Gansey, Ronan, Adam, Noah and Blue. But on top of that we get more insight on Ronan, which I found invaluable. It's a freaky nightmare of a book in every sense, but it might just be better than its predecessor. Definitely worth a read.