Publisher:
Scholastic
Release
Date: 23rd
September 2013
Edition:
UK paperback, review
copy (I think)
Other
Titles by this Author: Lament,
Ballad, Shiver,
Linger,
Forever,
Sinner,
The
Scorpio Races, The
Raven Boys, The Dream Thieves, Blue Lily,
Lily Blue
Blue
didn’t mean to fall for the Raven Boys, be she has – and the more her life entwines
with theirs, the more dangerous it becomes.
Ronan
is the most dangerous of all.
He’s
the haunted one, the darkest, the most raven.
His
dreams invade reality and confuse what is true.
With
magic growing stronger around them, now is a time to be wary. Before everything
unravels...
Friendships
will be tested.
Someone
will get hurt.
And
a kiss will be shared...
*There will be spoilers for The Raven Boys if you haven’t read it
yet and/or intend too!*
Over
the last few weeks everyone has been buzzing about the impending release of Blue Lily, Lily Blue, and then they were
in raptures about it and having only read The
Raven Boys when it came out, I was a little behind. I decided to do a
re-read to catch up and, god, I’m glad I did.
I began The Dream Thieves only a minutes after The Raven Boys so everything was beautifully fresh in my mind,
particularly the revelation of Ronan’s ability to pull things from his dreams. Definitely
explained the title of the book! I really enjoyed Ronan having the spotlight. He’s
a dark, twisty and incredibly complex character and I really love the way that
he isn’t revealed to not be that dark, twisty and complex as soon as you get in
his head. But I fell in love with him anyway. It’s his relationship with Gansey
I especially love, however. They are brothers in the truest sense and the
jealousy he felt at the way Gansey is with Adam hurt my heart, especially when
you throw in his inability to focalise that feeling.
Ronan’s talent, or curse, led
to a very interesting character being introduced: the Grey Man. His personality
lived up to his name, not good but not entirely bad either; unnoticeable unless
you’re looking; either an ally or an enemy. At first he was all questions: who
is he? Why is he in Henrietta? What is he looking for? Why is he involved with
Declan? I finally got all my answers which included some epic showdowns and
unexpected revelations. That Stiefvater knows how to keep me on my toes!
And one of her most successful
ways of keeping me on my toes: how to slow-burn a love story. Right from the
beginning of Blue’s story Blue has been adamant that she is not in love with
Gansey, though she loves being his friend and one of the Raven Boys. In The Dream Thieves she slowly starts to
dissolve this notion. Watching the sparks of feeling for each other squashed
down, hidden, denied was tantalising and it made it all the more special when
Gansey and Blue had a flicker of a moment; it made me seriously hope Blue’s
curse is not real because argh!
With an explosive ending The Dream Thieves has geared me up for Blue Lily, Lily Blue and made me wonder
why I waited a whole, entire year to read it...
Thank you to Scholastic for
this!
Sophie
I can't get enough of this series. I own it on Audiobook and hardcover!
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