The Dream Thieves

The Dream Thieves - Maggie Stiefvatar

3/5 Stars

It's been such a slow reading month for me, so I'm happy I've finally finished this! Even if it is 1 am... But everyone knows late reading nights make the best nights! Right?

I definitely preferred the first book over this one, but there were still a lot of things I really liked!

The Idea of dreams has always been something that have fascinated me, so naturally I love how this is the main theme. I just find it insane to think about. It's crazy how we don't control what we think about, but that makes everything so clear. Like how are we the most imaginative when are brains are switched off? It just blows my mind... But anyway late night thoughts aside, I really liked how all the magic is based on the idea of dreams and it's such an original concept and is actually done really well. It's interesting not fully knowing the limitations of what can actually happen in a dream, which makes for some fun theorising!

Noah is by far my favourite character, I just love how creepy and cute he is! That's just a perfect combo in my eyes! I also grew to like Ronan a lot more by the end of this one and I feel like he's definitely becoming more of a focus to the story, which will be interesting going into Blue Lilly Blue!

I loved all the one on one character scenes. It's hard to explain, but I think Maggie is excellent at writing conversations between two people. I dunno, I just feel like that's when her characters come to life and have their own characteristics and banter and the book instantly becomes more fun and enjoyable to read. However, when there's more than one character in a scene, I can't help but feel like everyone sorta gets lost in the crowd, if that makes sense? And that's when things started to drag for me. .

This could be why I found myself enjoying the Gray Man's scenes more than the other POVs, as it tended to be more solitary and just a man with his thoughts for the most part. Although It annoyed me at the start how forced his 'mysteriousness' was, but I must admit he did start to intrigue me after that! :D

My main issue with The Dream Thieves is how hard I found it to picture everything on a page by page basis. Normally when I read I play a little movie in my mind, so without that I was left with just words on a page... I had this same problem with the first book, but now that the plot lines are getting more in depth, it became increasingly difficult to follow what was happening. Some more description on the setting and people's actions would have sorted this out for me, although it could just be down to my pesky reading slump at the moment D:

I also thought Kavinsky was kinda dumb... Everyone knows him apparently but I was just there like...who even is he? Why was he even there... go away... I don't get why he was suddenly introduced out of no where for some dumb Fast and Furious style car races xD Towards the end I obviously gathered why he was there, but I feel like he could have been introduced A LOT earlier, so it didn't feel so cheaply thrown in.

I will say though, that while I preferred The Raven Boys, I definitely like where things are going now! The ending got super interesting, so I'll 100% be continuing on with the series!   

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