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The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2)

by Maggie Stiefvater (欧宝娱乐 Author)

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read in July 2017

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Meeghan said: " Second read through review:
I changed my rating to 5 stars. This series makes me so happy. That is all.

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There is absolutely something about these books that I can鈥檛 get out of my head. In the first one, there was a hesit Second read through review:
I changed my rating to 5 stars. This series makes me so happy. That is all.

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There is absolutely something about these books that I can鈥檛 get out of my head. In the first one, there was a hesitant reluctance to finish it because I dreaded the ending. In the second one, I tore though it in the hope that the end game may change, but it only drew it closer. To be honest, I am scared for the third book.

As I mentioned in my review of book one, Stiefvater鈥檚 writing is poetic, and I can鈥檛 say it any better than I did last time. It has this musical cadence to it that is soothing, yet illuminatingly descriptive. I absolutely believe that this is not for every reader, and I think it鈥檚 part of the reason that people can be so divided about this series, and also the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy. Writing is a third of the book 鈥� and it鈥檚 hard to stay with it if you don鈥檛 like it.

The characters changed in this story. Not in a bad way 鈥� they grew in that character development way, but it was dramatic and maybe a little bit abrupt. Where the first story was a generic background and some secondary characters, this became a deep dive into some mains and also some secondary character鈥檚 motivations and backgrounds. Where The Raven Boys featured who they were as a contextual piece of the story, The Dream Thieves abrasively attacked how and why they were, particularly Ronan and Adam. Of course this then dragged Persephone, Calla and Maura further into the spotlight, as well as Ronan鈥檚 brothers.

While all this turmoil is occurring though, you can see that it is inevitably drawing Blue and Gansey together 鈥� which is both exciting and terrifying at once.

The overarching plot is also going in places I had not expected. Or more to the point, I was expecting it to go down a specific path (see previous paragraph regarding Blue and Gansey), and while it is heading there, I was not anticipating that there would be additional snags along the way. Between the corpse road, Cabeswater, Greywaren, the Grey Man, and the scrying, I had no idea where this story was going. However, I find it all leading back to the same point, much like fate or destiny or coincidence. What I had thought were distracting tangents, appear only to become stronger bows with which to draw the arrows.

While intriguing, I did feel that I was left wanting more from this story, in particular chapter fifty-one. I have this dreading hesitance to finish these books 鈥� I can only imagine the pain and hurt I will feel after falling further in love with these characters and then to anticipate the end that I do 鈥� however, I also desperately want to read to the end to find my anticipated ending is wrong. And I can't decide if the series would be better or worse for the ending it portrays from the beginning (please keep in mind that I kind of love when they kill off characters, because you never understand your love for a fictional character until you mourn for them).

So, with great reluctance and optimistic hope I will move onto book three, and pray for more teen anguish between Blue and Gansey, less inner turmoil for Ronan, more storyline for Noah, Calla and Persephone, and less pages for Adam (sorry, but he annoys me).

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Hopeless (Chestnut Springs, #5)

by Elsie Silver (欧宝娱乐 Author)

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Foxglove (Belladonna, #2)

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“The king sleeps still, under a mountain , and around him is assembled
his warriors and his herds and his riches. By his right hand is his cup,
filled with possibility. On his breast nestles his sword, waiting, too, to wake.
Fortunate is the soul who finds the king and is brave enough to call him to wakefulness, for the king will grant him a favour, as wondrous as can be imagined by a mortal man.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

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“You missed World Hist."
"Did you get notes for me?"
"No. I thought you were dead in a ditch.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

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“If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”
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“Gansey's partying with his mother," Ronan said. He smelled like beer. "And Noah's fucking dead. But Parrish is here.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

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