Hardcover, 472 pages
English language
Published Oct. 29, 2019 by Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc..
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 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...
This description comes from the publisher. Call Down the Hawk is the first book in the Dreamers Trilogy; this is the sequel series to the Raven Boys series, the first of which is The Raven Boys.
Took me a while to get into this one. Ronan was never really my favorite character from the first series, and for some reason I was reluctant to re-enter this world without Gansey and Blue.
Anyway, it was good. I’ll start the next one immediately.
I forgot how much I like this author's play with words. Call Down the Hawk is a book about a dreamer, his dreams, and a world that rather stays awake. The characterization is amazing. Each character comes to life in a way that makes each point of view very interesting. The plot is so weird, but crafted exceptionally. I do wish there was more in terms of a specific couple/relationship, but otherwise, a stellar read!
I forgot how much I like this author's play with words. Call Down the Hawk is a book about a dreamer, his dreams, and a world that rather stays awake. The characterization is amazing. Each character comes to life in a way that makes each point of view very interesting. The plot is so weird, but crafted exceptionally. I do wish there was more in terms of a specific couple/relationship, but otherwise, a stellar read!
It feels wrong giving this 5 stars when I know that the odds are that the ending of the trilogy will be a letdown (I still don't know what The Raven King was), so I'm sticking with 4.5. But dammit, this book was so enjoyable. Not just on a big character level, though obviously that, but on a sentence-by-sentence level. I have my issues with Stiefvater but the woman can write. Now if she can only hold the plot together through this whole trilogy....
It feels wrong giving this 5 stars when I know that the odds are that the ending of the trilogy will be a letdown (I still don't know what The Raven King was), so I'm sticking with 4.5. But dammit, this book was so enjoyable. Not just on a big character level, though obviously that, but on a sentence-by-sentence level. I have my issues with Stiefvater but the woman can write. Now if she can only hold the plot together through this whole trilogy....
I had to let this sit a bit after finishing because a) it's a follow-up series to a previous beloved series in which I am already invested in the characters and b) I hated the ending. Yeah, we all hate cliff hanger endings. We hunger for more and crave answers. But the cliff hanger ending of Call Down the Hawk was less a cliff hanger ending and more of a "the full length of this book is a bit long so let's cut it into two and get more money out of it because we know everyone will be unable to pick up the second book with such an incomplete arc". As cliff hangers go this one is pretty poorly handled and depending so heavily on cliff hangers is also shitty writing imo.
So yeah, I couldn't rate it so immediately after finishing. That rant aside, Stiefvater's writing continues to …
I had to let this sit a bit after finishing because a) it's a follow-up series to a previous beloved series in which I am already invested in the characters and b) I hated the ending. Yeah, we all hate cliff hanger endings. We hunger for more and crave answers. But the cliff hanger ending of Call Down the Hawk was less a cliff hanger ending and more of a "the full length of this book is a bit long so let's cut it into two and get more money out of it because we know everyone will be unable to pick up the second book with such an incomplete arc". As cliff hangers go this one is pretty poorly handled and depending so heavily on cliff hangers is also shitty writing imo.
So yeah, I couldn't rate it so immediately after finishing. That rant aside, Stiefvater's writing continues to be filled with threads slowly weaving closer and closer together leaving the reading excited to see what it will become. And it as beautiful and atmospheric as always.
