Hello, friends! I finally got around to reading the finale, Greywaren, recently and here are the individual reviews for the three books in the Dreamer trilogy. While this is set in the same world as The Raven Cycle, it feels different following a Dreamer/Dream/Dreamer-Dream-adjacent family of brothers. Like the cast in The Raven Cycle, the cast in the Dreamer trilogy have a special place in my heart.
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🦅 Call Down the Hawk | 🗡 Mister Impossible | 🐺 Greywaren
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Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater
Series: Dreamer #1
Published November 5, 2019 by Scholastic Press
Age Range: Young Adult
Genre: Fantasy, Contemporary, Romance
Representation: M/M romance
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Synopsis:
The dreamers walk among us… and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming – they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives – they will sleep forever if their dreamers die.
And then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. To use them. To trap them. To kill them before their dreams destroy us all.
Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality.
Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it.
Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer… and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed…
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I’m still in love with Maggie Stiefvater’s writing style. Not going to lie, as much as I adore her writing, it took me a couple of chapters to be fully immersed and get used to it. Maggie Stiefvater’s a magnificent storyteller and her writing definitely enhanced the reading experience. The lyrical and lush prose made an already magical setting more whimsical.
The Lynch brothers are a mystery. Ronan Lynch is the most familiar of the trio. He’s snippy and sarcastic, but not unkind or cruel. Compared to Ronan in The Raven Cycle, Ronan in Call Down the Hawk is different. Better. More mature, more helpful, more thoughtful. His relationship with Adam is sweet and cute. We got more of his inner monologue and feelings when it came to Adam, which I absolutely adored.
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Declan’s written as if he’s a boring person, forgettable and inconsequential. With a dreamer of a father and brother and a brother who was dreamt, Declan is relatively normal. However, he’s pretty fascinating. As the eldest, Declan’s consistently making sacrifices for the other two, even if it may seem otherwise. As for the youngest Lynch brother, Matthew, things are getting more complicated for him. Still the same bubbly and happy-go-lucky Matthew, but soon things will change.
Although this trilogy is about the Lynch brothers, two other main characters have chapters as well–Jordan Hennessy and Carmen Farooq-Lane. The former is a thief while the latter is a hunter. Maggie Stiefvater explored the darker world of the dreamers and their dreams. As always, danger is awaiting and new villains are emerging.
How can I not love Call Down the Hawk? It’s about the Lynch brothers, art forgeries, internal struggles, dreamers, and the dreamt. The concept is original and creative. Nothing less than what I’d expected and definitely surpassed my hopes. Also, a black market with millions of dreamt items? 100% would take a stroll there even though I wouldn’t be able to afford anything.
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🦅 Call Down the Hawk | 🗡 Mister Impossible | 🐺 Greywaren
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Mister Impossible by Maggie Stiefvater
Series: Dreamer #2
Published May 18, 2021 by Scholastic Press
Age Range: Young Adult
Genre: Fantasy, Contemporary, Romance
Representation: M/M romance
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Synopsis:
Something is happening to the source of the dreamers’ power. It is blocked. Diminished. Weak. If it goes away entirely, what will happen to the dreamers and those who depend on them?
Ronan Lynch isn’t planning to wait and find out. Backed by his mentor, Bryde, he is ready to do what needs to be done to save the dreamers and the dreamed… even if it takes him far from his family and the boy he loves.
Jordan Hennessy knows she will not survive if the dreaming fails. So she plunges into a dark underworld in order to find an object that may sustain her.
Carmen Farooq-Lane is afraid of the dreamers–which is why she’s agreed to hunt them down. The closer she gets, though, the more complicated her feelings become. Will the dreamers destroy the world… or will the world be destroyed trying to eliminate the dreamers?
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Each of the Lynch brothers is on their own path, away from one another yet consistently pulled back to each other. Matthew desires to be his own person, not the brother that Ronan dreamt, not the brother who falls asleep if anything were to happen to be his dreamer. Not the brother whose life is dependent on his older brothers.
Declan finds himself deviating away from his norm. He thought he would continue down the path he had already planned for. Turns out, Declan meets a girl he’s truly interested in. He started thinking about the future of his brothers. Now, Ronan just wants someone to guide him. He’s tired of being clueless and when Bryde gave him a path, Ronan took it.
Golden Matthew, charming the city. Rebellious Ronan, finally grown into something useful. Cunning Declan, trafficking in art and stories. The Brothers Lynch. He liked not worrying about them all the time.
While I was reading Mister Impossible, I kept wanting more of Ronan and Adam. Things aren’t going great between them. After Ronan was kicked out of Harvard for destroying Adam’s dorm, he just disappeared. As the two of them are navigating their own lives, things are strained.
Ronan, Bryde, and Hennessy took a long extensive road trip destroying anything and everything that muted the ley lines. Bryde’s a mysterious character we don’t know about. His motives are unknown, and his background is murky. However, we do find out at the end, and boy, it was a freaking reveal.
With everyone else killed by the Moderators, Hennessy and Jordan are the only ones left. The two of them split up–Hennessy with Ronan, Jordan with Declan. While they’re carbon copies, Jordan and Hennessy are different in personalities so reading from their perspectives is interesting.
Humans dance as elegantly as clockwork stars move across the sky, but they do not see it because they are the stars.
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🦅 Call Down the Hawk | 🗡 Mister Impossible | 🐺 Greywaren
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Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater
Series: Dreamer #3
Expected publication October 18, 2022 by Scholastic Press
Age Range: Young Adult
Genre: Fantasy, Contemporary, Romance
Representation: M/M romance
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Synopsis:
This is the story of the Lynch family.
Niall and Mór escaped their homeland for a new start, and lost themselves in what they found.
Declan has grown up as the responsible son, the responsible brother–only to find there is no way for him to keep his family safe.
Ronan has always lived on the edge between dreams and waking… but now that edge is gone, and he is falling.
Matthew has been the happy child, the brightest beam. But rebellion beckons, because it all feels like an illusion now.
This world was not made for such a family–a family with the power to make a world and break it. If they cannot save each other or themselves, we are all doomed.
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With Greywaren, the Dreamer trilogy has come to a close. Every single time I pick up this book, I feel like I was in another world. Floating around with Ronan in the sweetmetal world, skirting around in the peripherals of the Lace, and moving around with Jordan and Hennessy as they decide the next course of action. We finally see Declan being happy, vulnerable, and himself. Following Matthew’s wish for being independent in Mister Impossible, he started wanting more and doing more.
“You were the story I chose for myself.”
I have no idea what else to say other than I got what I wanted. Declan no longer had to suppress his emotions. As the eldest child, he unconditionally took care of his brothers with his mother gone. It’s bittersweet watching him come to terms with his past. As for Matthew, the cheery ball of sunlight is rebelling and I’m glad we got that. He doesn’t want to sleep if anything were to happen to Ronan. He wants to survive and that fire has lit up within Matthew. As for Ronan, the immense power within him is threatening to explode and he needs to do something about it. I loved how his character was written throughout the trilogy and even in The Raven Cycle series.
I adore Adam and Ronan. Things between the couple started to deteriorate in Mister Impossible and in Greywaren, it’s hard not for this to go haywire. However, these two love each other a lot. Adam wanted to be normal for once but was losing himself. Ronan tried his best but was also losing himself.
“Neither Ronan nor Adam had been trained in the difficult and nuanced art of having a future. They had only ever learned the art of surviving the past.”
Sprinkled in were some chapters of Mór and Niall Lynch’s perspectives. From when they first arrived at the Barns as a pair of dreamers to the point where they separated alongside the other copies of themselves. Their chapters added context to how Niall and Mór’s lives in the past and Declan’s in the present since he’s the eldest and had more time with the adults.
Overall, Maggie Stiefvater has wrapped up a trilogy nicely. The magic was brilliant, the writing still amazing, and the world is ever-expanding. I enjoyed myself greatly and can’t wait to see what she will be writing next!
spoilers:
- declan and jordan got married! i love seeing declan happy. what a change ❤
- i’m taking the end of the epilogue as they got married. ronan gave adam a ring and adam accepted. it’s canon in my mind.
- hennessy and farooq-lane??? i love this
spoilers:
- declan and jordan got married! i love seeing declan happy. what a change ❤
- i’m taking the end of the epilogue as they got married. ronan gave adam a ring and adam accepted. it’s canon in my mind.
- hennessy and farooq-lane??? i love this
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