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.Īnd then there is the third kind of secret, the most hidden kind.

The second is a harder kind of secret: one you keep from yourself. One is the sort everyone knows about, the sort you need at least two people for. It starts with an intriguing prologue all about secrets… The story starts off pretty much where TRB left off with the search for Glendower still in mind, but with the emphasis taken away slightly compared to TRB. Not in this one though: the writing is fantastic, the story is dramatic but the character development! We see a lot more and learn a lot more about Ronan in this book, with the focus taken from Gansey and Blue, allowing the reader to explore a new side to this world. So this book follows on from The Raven Boys and it definitely steps up a gear it’s always awesome when the sequel in a series is just as good as the first – there’s nothing worse than reading a book, loving it but then finding that the sequel really lets the story down. His to burn.” – Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves “He danced on the knife’s edge between awareness and sleep. Before everything unravels …įriendships will be tested. With magic growing stronger around them, now is a time to be wary. His dreams invade reality and confuse what is true. He’s the haunted one, the darkest, the most raven. “Blue didn’t mean to fall for the Raven Boys, but she has – and the more her life entwines with theirs, the more dangerous it becomes.

The dream thieves series