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The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
5.0
adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

 This book has the best opening periodt.
Maggie Stiefvater woke up, held the pen and said, today I am going to make history and burn every other writer to the ground in the pits of jealousy and envy until they are ready to bow to me. Excelsior !

A secret is a strange thing. There are three kinds of secrets. One is the sort everyone knows about, the sort you need at least two people for. One to keep it. One to never know. The second is a harder kind of secret: one you keep from yourself. Every day, thousands of confessions are kept from their would-be confessors, none of these people knowing that their never admitted secrets all boil down to the same three words: I am afraid.

And then there is the third kind of secret, the most hidden kind. A secret no one knows about. Perhaps it was known once, but was taken to the grave. Or maybe it is a useless mystery, arcane and lonely, unfound because no one
ever looked for it.

Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind to hold. It is too strange, too vast, too terrifying to contemplate. All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or kept from, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches that's what will be left at the end of it all.

Even after all this time my love for this series is still soaring. This is my third time rereading it. I just love staying in this world ❤️

Updated on December 2023
Increasing my rating to full five stars.
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4.65 stars 

Plot = 4 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Characters = 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Writing = 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 

I love Ronan for his criminal charm.
Gansey for his motherly instinct and unconditional love for all his friends.
Blue for her sense of humor and intelligence.
Noah for his quite but powerful love for each one of the Raven boys.
Adam for his morals.
And gray man for his soft hard and tough exterior.

These characters are the love of my life. This the book that I'd sell my soul to read it again for the first time.