#and ronan and Hennessy travel to help dreams and dreamers

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finished greywaren.

[dykenav]

personally one of my biggest disappointments with greywaren was the lack of discussion about like. The World. like MI had SO much of this energy of like revolution and We Have To Change The World To Survive It and all of that was just like. totally skirted. not to mention the unanswered questions and plotholes like does the world know dreams and dreamers exist now? wtf happened to Ronan and Hennessy being wanted by the FBI? all jokes aside with that it’s kind of disappointing how we just get like one sentence in the epilogue that tells us that they’re traveling the world helping people make sweetmetals where the ley line needs it like I love that for them but how did they come to that conclusion. if the takeaway is supposed to be that the revolution needed to happen in the way they saw themselves and their relationships first then that’s dope but there was nothing to really tie that together with everything we set up in MI

[annabethvicit]

So does Ronan get more tattoos or does he still have only his back piece?

Because all of Greywaren left me confused and i’ll have to reread it but i’m just asking to stop one of the questions floating around in my head

while he was still asleep, hennessy tattooed his arm with sweetmetal ink and gave him a sleeve of green scales!!

that was the driving force that brought him back to life and gave him energy even without the ley line! the power here comes not only from the ink, but also from hennessy's emotions and immense care for ronan. we know that she's capable of creating sweetmetals from her own arc and this moment shows that she is now able to do so confidently and with intention! it also demonstrates the power of hennessy + ronan's bond and serves as a conclusion of their relationship throughout the series.

the implication here is that ronan and his powers are no longer tethered to the ley lines like they were in the prior books (ex. him not being able to stay with adam in cambridge, the nightwash when he doesn't dream, and him being tied to the barns + henrietta because of their proximity to the ley lines). this gives him the power to move and operate freely, regardless of the quality of the ley lines in the area. it's why he is no longer tethered to the barns, can travel around and help other dreamers through waking more ley lines, and regains agency and control over this aspect of his life!

[ourravenboys]

what happened at the end?

okay MAJOR MISTER IMPOSSIBLE SPOILERS IF U STILL DONT HAVE IT FILTERED FOR SOME REASON

you need like. a lot of context 😭 this will b long

so ronan and bryde and hennessy had been travelling around destroying giant electrical plants and stuff that were weakening the ley lines. so brydes goal was to get the ley lines to like..their full power? i think?? and that way all dreams wouldnt need their dreamers to be alive for them to stay awake. so throughout the book this is happening and adam is looking for ronan in dreamspace, but ronan keeps ignoring him. ronan dreamt himself a phone tho, and he talks to declan two or three times on it. adam calls declan and hes like “we need to talk about bryde” and they meet and adam is like “we have to stop them bc if byrde succeeds, all dreams EVER will wakeup. like every single dream in the history of time, what if mythological beasts are actually sleeping dreams and they wake up” yada yada yada. ronan meets up with declan at a museum and declan is like “what are you doing youre not an ecoterrorist, what about adam and your life at the barns?” and he realizes ronan is at the point where he will just. do anything bryde says. becuase he looks up to him so much. they go their seperate ways but declans like “go meet matthew before you leave tho”. So the three dreamers set up a meetup w matthew, but declan calls carmen (who had quit the moderators earlier) and tells her about this meetup, and tells her to kill bryde and NOT to hurt ronan. carmen agrees but then the moderators catch up to her and are like “did you really think we’d let you go so easy?” and she negotiates with them, tells them to help her kill bryde but let ronan and hennessy escape. so they set up this plan. carmen lays in this fountain with a breathing tube thing and hennessys sword (hennessy left it behind in a fight earlier) and plans to kill bryde in one swing. the moderators are there for backup. at the signal she misses bryde and alerts them of her and the moderators + lilianas presence. a big fight breaks out between moderators and the three dreamers and bryde and ronan escape w moderators chasing them. carmen thinks she failed until she realizes hennessy is still here and surrendering to them. so bryde and ronan are in the car fleeing and declan calls him and hes like “thank god youre ok” but ronans llike “fuck you im never trusting you again” and declan tries to explain but ronan literally thinks his brother wanted him dead. declan is like “dont do this youre not a bad person” but ronan hangs up on him. then ronan calls adam and hes like “why didnt you text back?” (the time during the end of cdth) and adams like “how could i have known youd leave for weeks? you never called” and ronans like “me and bryde need to see you” and adam says “you can come. only you” and ronan realizes adam helped declan with this whole plan. adam tries to reason with him but ronan hangs up then throws his phone out the window. bryde reveals that ronan dreamt him up, bryde only knows things ronan would already know or that the trees (lindenmere) would tell him. he wanted a teacher so he unconsciously dreamt one up. this is also why he was unconciously keeping adam out of dreamscape, bc he wouldve realized. ronan is like messed up inside with all this new knowledge, and bryde tells him hennessy is trying to dream something up to de stroy the ley line forever (to stop the lace from coming out of her dreams, which would cause the end of the world). ronan bryde and hennessy all meet in dreamspace, (hennessy irl is with carmen and liliana) hennessy is controlling her dreaming, making things that happened earlier in the book loop over and ovre again, keeping bryde occupied. they try to reason with each other, hennessy wakes up with a dreamt orb that will destroy the ley line. she uses it, birds start dropping frmo the sky, planes crash, cars smash into each other etc, all these dreams are falling asleep. matthew falls asleep at a school office, declan was cornered by moderators (lock and ramsay etc) but all the modeators fall asleep. declan runs out of his appartment to find jordan who was on a walk, but for some reason jordan is still awake.

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Mister Impossible Review

Mister Impossible is the second book of The Dreamer Trilogy by Maggie Stiefvater. This series follows the dreamer, Ronan Lynch, from The Raven Cycle after high school as he navigates his place in the world. In the second book, Ronan and Hennessy have joined with the mysterious Bryde to learn how to control their dreams, leaving behind the dreams they manifested, Matthew and Jordan. Declan, the oldest of the Lynch brothers, searches for a way to keep his youngest brother awake, should anything happen to Ronan. All the while, the Moderators do everything they can to stop Ronan and Hennessy from bringing about the end of the world.

The irascible storm from the eyedropper didn’t bother him; he was just another piece of it.

I could barely put this book down. Every time I found myself with time to read, I was racing through this book, eager to know what happens. Maggie Stiefvater has long been a favorite author of mine. I fell in love with The Raven Boys when I read it almost seven years ago. She has a way of writing compelling characters that you just can’t help but be completely enamored by. When I saw that she was writing a spin-off, following one of these amazing characters, I immediately pre-ordered the first book. I was lucky to get the Owlcrate box made exclusively for Call Down the Hawk, then the Owlcrate exclusive edition of Mister Impossible. I have travelled many miles to meet Stiefvater twice, once in Houston, Texas, and once in Edinburgh, UK at one of her speaking events. It’s safe to say that she is in my top three favorite authors.

Mister Impossible did not disappoint. It sat on my TBR pile for many months simply because this last year was a hard year, and I wasn’t able to read anything. Finally dragging myself out of my reading slump, I breezed through this book. Call Down the Hawk had a much slower start than this one and it took me longer to get hooked, but Mister Impossible wasted no time drawing me in. It throws you into the action immediately and there are no slow moments that made the story drag on. We follow several characters, jumping between them in each chapter, but Stiefvater is so great at crafting interconnected storylines that I never got lost. I knew who I was following and what was happening with ease. Every character had me captivated. Stiefvater even manages to make characters that you love to hate. Our villain, Farooq-Lane, is someone you want to fail but don’t want something bad to happen to her along the way.

There were a few times when it felt like the sections didn’t belong. Stiefvater has an incredibly distinct voice and I can tell something is hers instantly and she’s great at keeping it consistent for the most part. But these little sections don’t quite fit and I’ll go into explanation in the spoiler part of my review. Because of how distinct the author’s voice is, when it strays, it’s unfortunately quite noticeable. It’s not enough to ruin the book but it did draw me out of my immersion.

I am still in awe with how Stiefvater brings this story to life. Ronan is a dreamer and he brings things out of the dream world and into reality. Dreams, as we know, are so abstract and often times not even in our own dreams do we understand what is happening. The idea of putting these strange and remarkable things to the page is something that seems impossible but Stiefvater crafts it so excellently, with vivid details that make it easy to follow along. Ronan not only dreams entire people into existence, like his younger brother Matthew which he dreamt when he was a child, but extraordinary things. Sundogs that move as fast as a sunbeam, a sword made of the sunlit sky, and a menagerie of impossible creatures that call the Barns their home. Everything is so vivid and detailed, no matter how strange the dream was. I couldn’t imagine putting the things she puts into words and it’s one of the reasons why I am so drawn to The Dreamer Trilogy.

The rest of the review will be filled with spoilers as I go into more detail about why I love this book and the characters so much.

Golden Matthew, charming the city. Rebellious Ronan, finally grown into something useful. Cunning Declan, trafficking in art and stories. The Brothers Lynch.

Ronan Lynch was first introduced to readers in The Raven Boys. In that series of books, he landed as my third favorite, behind Gansey and Noah, but this doesn’t mean that Ronan is a weak character by any means. I just love Gansey and Noah far too much for all their endearing quirks and personalities. Ronan is a solid third for me and I absolutely love following him as his story continues. Gansey and Blue’s stories came to a conclusion in the final book of The Raven Cycle, Noah’s spirit moved on, and the continuation of Adam’s story coincided with Ronan’s as they began a relationship, though his story was mostly finished as well.

He was not dating Ronan; he was living in Ronan’s life with him.

Ronan is a dreamer, someone who can do incredible things, a Mister Impossible. Ordinary life is not in the cards for him. We saw a glimpse of what his future could possibly hold with his father, who was killed after shady business dealings using his dreamt materials. What future does a dreamer hold, especially one as volatile as Ronan Lynch?

People would either want Ronan’s ability or stop him from using it. So it makes sense that we see his life after high school. I do miss Gansey but I understand why we don’t have him in this series, and we really don’t need him. I love getting to know Declan more and more and Matthew fills that hole that Noah left when he moved on.

I like both Hennessy and Jordan, though I am more drawn to Jordan. Hennessy suits Ronan with her extreme pessimism and hardness. She’s someone that Ronan needs to save, and I enjoy their moments together, how he’s trying to show her all the things she can do with her dreams. She did get frustrating at times, and I’m so upset that she teamed up with Farooq-Lane and Liliana. I’m convinced that Liliana has bad intentions and I’m so angry and distressed that the ley line has been shut off. Hennessy is definitely that love to hate character in this novel.

One dreamer was feeling I need this to stop everything and the other dreamer was feeling I need this to start something.

In book three, I’m really hoping that they’re able to help Matthew and I’m scared to see the aftermath of the dreams falling asleep. It sounded really bad, with planes falling from the sky so I’m wondering if this was the apocalypse all the Moderators were so afraid of. Realizing just how much of the world had been dreamt opens endless consequences to Hennessy’s actions. I don’t see any good out of the ley line being turned off, but I also wonder what would’ve happened if Ronan had succeeded in destroying the dam. So many questions and so many possibilities. I need the third book now so I can see what happens.

These days, lots of people are trying to stay awake.

Jordan, on the other hand, was much more enjoyable. I loved seeing her with Declan, bringing him out of his carefully crafted self and into his real self. Seeing him fall into the art world of Jordan brings a whole new side to him.

Funny how opposites make each other look brighter.

In The Raven Cycle, he was this strict and intentionally boring character that we barely got to know, but you wanted to. He had these adorable quirks, like the way he texts and the way he cares for his brothers, so he was definitely a character that you just knew had so much more to him that we couldn’t see. I really appreciate that we get to see more to him and that he’s another well-rounded character that Stiefvater is fantastic at bringing to life.

Mister Impossible is yet another strong piece of writing from Stiefvater, but as mentioned before, there were some sections that felt like they didn’t belong to the rest of the book, and both involved the Moderators. Most noticeably, in chapter 13, the Moderators attack the Zeds – Ronan, Hennessy, and Bryde – and it’s a very chaotic and hard to follow sequence. It feels like the Moderators came out of nowhere and were suddenly attacking them. A new Zed, Rhiannon, is killed in the sequence but it’s so hard to follow that the emotional impact isn’t as strong as it could be. There’s a significant lack of Moderators in this book compared to the previous so when they show up, it feels out of place. We followed them much more closely in the previous book so we were more keen to their movements. Here, they just show up to confront the Zeds, then they’re off again. I like seeing Farooq-Lane realizing that the Moderators aren’t the good guys and I wish we had more chapters following them. Mister Impossible is considerably shorter than Call Down the Hawk so we could’ve used more chapters for them. After learning that most of the Moderators are dreams, I really wish we had seen more of them in this novel as perhaps desperation sets in or frustration.

Ronan is tough and he can be a hard character to love. He is often cruel and pushes people away, but we saw throughout The Raven Cycle that he is deeply loyal and caring about those he loves. He is incredibly complicated but that makes him such a compelling character.

Ronan’s sin was immediacy, not villainy.

“But his head didn’t seem built to hold the future. He could imagine it for just a few seconds until, like a weak muscle, his thoughts collapsed back to the present.”

One of the reasons I enjoy reading about Ronan so much is the relatability I feel with him. Throughout the novel, Bryde asks him “What do you feel?” and Ronan struggles to answer. As someone who struggles to express what they’re feeling, I could completely empathize how he didn’t understand what was happening to him or want to share it with the others. But as the book progresses and his lessons with Bryde continue, we see him begin to open up. Ronan finds his place and what he was born for as he opens the ley line and helps other dreamers who are too far away and are suffering. In the end, when we learn that Bryde is a dream dreamt by Ronan, it makes sense. The only one who could understand Ronan is Ronan himself. He desperately needed a teacher, but Ronan is such a fireball that getting one who would get through to him would be near impossible. Only a teacher that comes from his own mind could help him.

Thinking back over the book, it starts making more and more sense that Bryde is a dream of Ronan’s. Of course, there were all the hints that he wasn’t like anyone else and I got the sense that he was a dream, but whose I did not know. He was very birdlike and Ronan has an affinity for birds. His closest companion is Chainsaw, the raven, and we got to see his best day in which he wished he had an army of birds. Bryde is so much like Ronan if Ronan were able to be true to himself and allow himself to be honest.

“Ronan was beginning to understand that Bryde’s first instinct was always to play with his enemies’ heads. He would fight if he must, but he always preferred having his opponents defeat themselves.”

Bryde could’ve only come from one mind, the mind of Ronan Lynch. And now that he’s gotten what he wanted – a way to stay awake – I wonder what’s next for him.

“He was an enigma before and an enigma after.”

I was really worried when I picked up this book that I would be completely lost. I read Call Down the Hawk all the way back in late 2019, so it was a considerable amount of time between books one and two, but I had absolutely no trouble picking up where we left off. It was easy to resume the story and the things I didn’t remember as well as others were filled in without bogging down the story. A good sequel is able to stand on its own without losing the reader and I think Stiefvater accomplished this with ease.

I really enjoyed this sequel to Call Down the Hawk. The continuation of Ronan’s story is so compelling and interesting and I am on the edge of my seat waiting to see what happens next. Stiefvater is an incredible author who writes characters so beautifully. I don’t ever want Ronan’s story to end and I would love read more about the other Raven Boys, but I know that the story will end. I can only hope that the ending doesn’t rip out my heart.