melike's review against another edition
5.0
➔ 4.5 stars
okay so i literally cried for an hour after finishing this. i love these characters so much it‘s unreal actually. almost everything about this book was perfect so there‘s not much i can say that i feel would express the extent of how much i adored this. despite that, i felt like i couldn‘t give it 5 stars because of a few reasons:
i felt like many questions were left unanswered at the end (like what happens to the gray man, his relationship with maura, and does he really start a war with the laumoniers?). i also hated how noah was not acknowledged at all by anyone in the epilogue which is really upsetting considering how close he was to some of the characters, and what we find out he did for them. i also wish there was more of ronan and adam together because i found myself loving them and their relationship the most (i know they‘re both in the dreamer trilogy but from what i‘ve heard there‘s not much of their relationship in that one either).
aside from all that i just about adored everything else. i love maggie stiefvater‘s writing in this, i love the characters – especially ronan, the best boy ever – and their bonds, and i love how the story was developed and built. i can‘t wait to reread this series one day because i know it‘s going to feel like returning home.
okay so i literally cried for an hour after finishing this. i love these characters so much it‘s unreal actually. almost everything about this book was perfect so there‘s not much i can say that i feel would express the extent of how much i adored this. despite that, i felt like i couldn‘t give it 5 stars because of a few reasons:
i felt like many questions were left unanswered at the end (like what happens to the gray man, his relationship with maura, and does he really start a war with the laumoniers?). i also hated how noah was not acknowledged at all by anyone in the epilogue which is really upsetting considering how close he was to some of the characters, and what we find out he did for them. i also wish there was more of ronan and adam together because i found myself loving them and their relationship the most (i know they‘re both in the dreamer trilogy but from what i‘ve heard there‘s not much of their relationship in that one either).
aside from all that i just about adored everything else. i love maggie stiefvater‘s writing in this, i love the characters – especially ronan, the best boy ever – and their bonds, and i love how the story was developed and built. i can‘t wait to reread this series one day because i know it‘s going to feel like returning home.
nika_nix's review against another edition
3.0
I just don't care. I finished the series only because of stubborness and because I bough all the books at once so I wanted to get throught them. But I lost interest in the plot of this about halfway through The Dream Thieves.
kimberlyd's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
alt_air's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
nephybooks's review against another edition
5.0
This series was so amazing and so original. I sometimes find that if a book has fantastic characterisation, then the plot usually lacks, but this was not the case. I loved every character in this book and also loved to hate others *Greenmantle/Piper*. They were sarcastic, witty and showed great development throughout. I also thought the plot was great... It was whimsical and magical, and made me feel like I was a part of something which I am grateful for.
chirson's review against another edition
2.0
I hoped the pay-off would be enough but it just didn't work for me. The style started bugging me early on in this volume, feeling more forced than poetic. The focus was on all the wrong characters for me, the interesting plotlines got left hanging, even the romances (less than fascinating as they were) got short-shrifted. Several characters' fates don't even deserve endings, or, well, storylines of their own, or characterisation. Henry Chang, for instance. Or Gwenllian. (The Gray Man got more character development than any single female character.) And after all four books I'm still not buying Gansey, Blue has hardly any character development (except deciding to say no to college and yes to camping around the world with her boyfriend and his fanboy/friend whose attraction to Gansey makes so little sense it actually gets lampshaded a whole lot) and the entire plot twist with the ending was pretty much what everyone called in book 1.
In short, it was pretty much a lot of meh and it took me two weeks to slog my way through. It's a pity, I thought the beginning of the series had some potential.
In short, it was pretty much a lot of meh and it took me two weeks to slog my way through. It's a pity, I thought the beginning of the series had some potential.
sbarnes01346's review against another edition
5.0
Crying, screaming, throwing up. Why is it over what the fuck
elizlizabeth's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
medium-paced
4.0
It's been a while since a book made me feel this shocked, excited and happy at the same time but here we are. I already can see myself rereading over and over, what a beautiful conclusion to the raven boys and Blue's story.
Only thing I'm complaining a bit is how anticlimactic some moments + the epilogue felt, kinda makes me wish that if this book had been longer.
Only thing I'm complaining a bit is how anticlimactic some moments + the epilogue felt, kinda makes me wish that if this book had been longer.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Gore, and Death
Minor: Kidnapping and Gun violence
kenziemj9's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
hillamaria's review against another edition
5.0
i don’t even know what to say… why. was. this. so. sad. literally for what? i could not put this book down; i just read word after word through my tears. my pynch heart can at least rest easy, but all that shit with gansey made me near at least five different heart attacks in the span of ten minutes. ”it was always going to be him. glendower was dead. he’d always been dead. and gansey kind of wanted to live.” holy shit that made me so. so. so. sad. i cried all the way through the epilogue and, to be honest, the last at least 50 pages of the book - most likely more. i’m so glad i read these books, and can’t wait to get to the dreamer trilogy.