Review: The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle #2) by Maggie Stiefvater

Title: The Dream Thieves
Series: The Raven Cycle #2

Author: Maggie Stiefvater

Genre: Fantasy/Realistic Fiction/Paranormal
Age Group: Young Adult

Pages: 439 (Hardcover)

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Publication date: September 17th, 2013

**The below synopsis may contain spoilers if you have not read The Raven Boys. My review beneath it is spoiler free**


Synopsis from The Dream Thieves' Goodreads page


If you could steal things from dreams, what would you take?
Ronan Lynch has secrets. Some he keeps from others. Some he keeps from himself.
One secret: Ronan can bring things out of his dreams.
And sometimes he's not the only one who wants those things.
Ronan is one of the raven boys—a group of friends, practically brothers, searching for a dead king named Glendower, who they think is hidden somewhere in the hills by their elite private school, Aglionby Academy. The path to Glendower has long lived as an undercurrent beneath town. But now, like Ronan's secrets, it is beginning to rise to the surface—changing everything in its wake.


I first read this book back in 2013 when it first came out and I absolutely loved it. I loved it even more when I re-read it this past month.
Maggie Stiefvater's writing is absolutely amazing and always has been. Every single one of her books is beautiful inside and out, and she has not written a book yet that I have not given anything less than four stars. Her stories are beautiful, hilarious, heart-wrenching and intriguing from the very first page, and this book is no less.
Although The Dream Thieves focuses more on Ronan's life and is mostly following him, there is still more than enough of the other characters in this book. Usually with the second and sometimes third book in a series I feel that it is just a continuation of the problems in the first book, and that it doesn't really advance the plot because it just creates more problems then there needs to be. With The Dream Thieves, I feel that this was not at all what happened. This book does create some problems, but ones that are needed in order to advance the plot. This book also resolves some of the smaller problems from the first book, as well as giving us very important character development, especially details about Ronan and his life which we need to understand him and why he does what he does. This book did not seem like a filler book at all, but instead a very important book that developed many, if not all, of the characters in this story.
This book also has the many aspects of a Maggie Stiefvater book, the fast cars, the sometimes harsh jokes, and the unbreakable love between characters (who usually never admit it). It helped to answer some questions but it also created more. It questions characters' relationships and choices, and it makes for a very enjoyable read.
Overall - ★★★★★