HOWEVER - the raven cycle saga has meant everything to me. i don’t remember the last time i reviewed a book, and i’m not going to check.

i am giving this a 3 stars but if i were honest i am only rating so high because i am super biased when it comes to stiefvater. like i said, if could change my perception of and perspective on this book i would. if you vibed with it i am super jealous but pls don't send me hate comments. I still respect stiefvater as an author and i will always love the characters and the world that she has created however i will do my utmost to erase this book from my head. that ending scene especially just struck me as fan-service. that epilogue was cheesy in a very odd way that didn't fit the tone of the series at all. if i could brainwash myself into having a different response to this book i would which may sound extreme sure but ragazzi miei i can hardly articulate what these characters mean to me. not only do they add inconsistencies to the trc universe but they seemed desperate to be 'clever'.i could go on. the plot is meandering and confused, which could have worked, but then we get these reveals that just did not convince me at all. ronan, my favourite character of all time.well, he is painfully underused and the scenes he is in are too purply and abstract. adam, a character that i have come to love, see med very out-of-character, and not even in a 'he's grown/changed from the boy he used to be' way. bryde.after the previous books establish him as a such a key figure, well, i was confused by his purpose. stiefvater's stiefvaterism, which i usually eat up, struck me as contrived, i was frustrated by how the trilogy's supposed central character is sidelined for much of this book, carmen farooq-lane really annoyed me and so did jordan & hennessy (all of whom i previously was fond of), declan too was kind of a let down in this one. the more i read the more i struggled to reconcile myself with the existence of this book and that it wasn't something from a half-arsed dream of mine.

having loved every TRC book and book 1 and 2 in this dreamer trilogy, i wasn't even worried about not loving this. Look, i don't know what to say or write besides me not liking this book is one big & unwelcome twist. Review to come if & when i am emotionally ready. ❀ blog ❀ thestorygraph ❀ letterboxd ❀ tumblr ❀ ko-fi ❀

Maggie stiefvater dreamer trilogy