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Greywaren is the third in the Dreamer trilogy by Maggie Stiefvater, with is a sequel trilogy to her Raven Chronicles.
I listened to the first one in November 2019 and the second one in June 2021, so there were reasonable gaps between them - and the story is very complicated. So much so that I found detailed recaps of the first two books online and read them before starting this one - and I think I ended up more confused than I was when I couldn't remember much about what had happened!
However, I launched in and hoped that it would all come together in my head as I went along - and it mostly did.
There are dreamers and moderators and visionaries and sweetmetals and a predicted apocalypse - and the three Lynch brothers are right smack in the middle of all the chaos (though Ronan actually spends most of the book magically asleep...).
I did feel as if there were perhaps a couple too many viewpoint characters - and everything was so fractured that it felt as if very little progress was made throughout most of the book. But I did remember all the characters and Stiefvater does a very good job of making even the most annoying of them sympathetic in some ways. I was definitely invested in finding out what was going to happen to all these people (and the world in general) and I was largely satisfied with where it all ended up.
Considering how badly he's portrayed in the original four books, it was interesting to me that the character I most related to in these ones was Declan, the oldest brother and the one who spends all his time trying to hold everything together amidst all the madness. I very much liked the arc he gets in this trilogy and the ways in which he is redeemed and better understood by those around him by the end. It was his emotional awakening (with the discoveries he makes about the history of his parents) that most affected me while listening to the book.
Despite the ridiculously complex situation and the large number of characters trying to figure out how to sort it all out, this book did feel a bit slight in some ways. But it was good to reach a definitive conclusion for this story, and overall I liked how it all came together.
I listened to the first one in November 2019 and the second one in June 2021, so there were reasonable gaps between them - and the story is very complicated. So much so that I found detailed recaps of the first two books online and read them before starting this one - and I think I ended up more confused than I was when I couldn't remember much about what had happened!
However, I launched in and hoped that it would all come together in my head as I went along - and it mostly did.
There are dreamers and moderators and visionaries and sweetmetals and a predicted apocalypse - and the three Lynch brothers are right smack in the middle of all the chaos (though Ronan actually spends most of the book magically asleep...).
I did feel as if there were perhaps a couple too many viewpoint characters - and everything was so fractured that it felt as if very little progress was made throughout most of the book. But I did remember all the characters and Stiefvater does a very good job of making even the most annoying of them sympathetic in some ways. I was definitely invested in finding out what was going to happen to all these people (and the world in general) and I was largely satisfied with where it all ended up.
Considering how badly he's portrayed in the original four books, it was interesting to me that the character I most related to in these ones was Declan, the oldest brother and the one who spends all his time trying to hold everything together amidst all the madness. I very much liked the arc he gets in this trilogy and the ways in which he is redeemed and better understood by those around him by the end. It was his emotional awakening (with the discoveries he makes about the history of his parents) that most affected me while listening to the book.
Despite the ridiculously complex situation and the large number of characters trying to figure out how to sort it all out, this book did feel a bit slight in some ways. But it was good to reach a definitive conclusion for this story, and overall I liked how it all came together.
