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A dream is a wish your heart makes (Cannonball!)

Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater

July 31, 2020 by Malin 6 Comments

#CBR12 Bingo: Orange (would also work for Fresh Start)

This is the start of a new series, so it stands alone. You don’t have to have read Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle series, starting with The Raven Boys, but it gives a lot of useful background to Ronan and the other Lynch brothers.
 
Official book description:
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. . . . 
 
In this new Dreamer trilogy, Maggie Stiefvater takes some of the characters from her Raven Cycle, like the deeply spiky and hostile Ronan Lynch and his boyfriend Adam Parrish and writes a new story, which also gives more room and development to some who were very peripheral supporting cast, like Ronan’s brothers Declan and Matthew. She also introduces a number of new characters, like the talented art forger Jordan Hennessey, who hides the fact that all the women she lives with, are in fact, copies of herself that she dreamed into being. Women who will become comatose shells if she ever dies – and with each dream where she brings forth a copy, she comes a little bit closer to that point. There’s also Carmen Farooq-Lane, who works with a group of people determined to track down dreamers, and either make them stop dreaming (which is impossible, then they’ll eventually die) or kill them. There is a dangerous prophecy, you see, that one or more dreamers will bring forth the end of the world. While she’s unhappy about her assignment and haunted by the fact that she had to help bring down her own brother, she really doesn’t feel she has a choice. She’s helping to stop Armageddon.
Full review on my blog.

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult Tagged With: audio book, Call Down the Hawk, cbr12, cbr12bingo, Dreams, forgery, Fresh Start, Maggie Stiefvater, Malin, mystery, orange, paranormal fantasy, the Dreamer Trilogy, Young Adult

Malin's CBR12 Review No:52 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: audio book, Call Down the Hawk, cbr12, cbr12bingo, Dreams, forgery, Fresh Start, Maggie Stiefvater, Malin, mystery, orange, paranormal fantasy, the Dreamer Trilogy, Young Adult ·
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Constantly overworked Norwegian secondary school teacher, Geek and reading enthusiast. Married. Mother of little boy, born February 2018. Two cats. The Cannonball-veteran (the only participant - as far as I know - who has participated every year since CBRII). Loves fantasy, kissing books and YA. Strongly opinionated about many things. Perpetually behind on reviews. View Malin's reviews»

Comments

  1. Emmalita says

    August 1, 2020 at 2:21 pm

    Happy Cannonball!!!!

    This sounds interesting. I haven’t read any Maggie Stiefvarter yet, but this might be the one.

    Reply
    • Malin says

      August 1, 2020 at 4:22 pm

      Thank you! I’d really recommend her Raven Cycle, which is excellent and very well-plotted. If you don’t want to commit to a four book series, she also has The Scorpio Races and All the Crooked Saints that are stand-alones.

      Reply
  2. andtheIToldYouSos says

    August 1, 2020 at 2:44 pm

    Happy Cannonball!!!!

    Reply
    • Malin says

      August 1, 2020 at 4:22 pm

      Thank you!

      Reply
  3. KimMiE" says

    August 1, 2020 at 7:47 pm

    Congratulations!

    Reply
  4. narfna says

    August 3, 2020 at 1:32 pm

    Happy Cannonball!

    I still have yet to read Maggie Stiefvater, despite having her on my TBR for basically a decade. Maybe 2021 will be the year.

    Reply

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