I’m going to eat my feelings

Will Patton please read my grocery list and eventually my obituary thank you beautiful story great job y’all.

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Everything it says on the tin

Maggie did what she said she would. This book is so good. Well-paced, dripping with emotional truths, and oh, it does hurt. Mysteries and answers and new developments, oh my.

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I cannot love the Brothers Lynch any more

Talk about cliffhangers! (Yes, multiple.) Maggie writes like people actually talk (and think.) That is probably my favorite thing about all of these Lynch-related stories. The premise is so cool, too (but you must start with Raven Cycle to get it all.) Will Patton could read a chemistry textbook and make it compelling. The combination is excellent. In the end, I totally did not see what happened to all the important characters coming. That is rare for me, as I usually figure it out. I cannot wait for book 3, but I hope it is not the end.

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Nothing like the real thing

The first of this series was an authentic burst of creativity and imagination, exciting and a great collective of characters. But as they got older, the stories got aged too, hard to follow, hard to want to follow. I have read all of Maggie’s work with relish and fondness. This one was a drag, felt like her unwanted remains.

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Intense

Well, basically, Maggie Stiefvater takes everything you know in the series and turns it on its ear. Wow. What a trip.

It's fair to say Mister Impossible is the most serious book so far. Not that it doesn't have its hilarious moments (Hennessy's diatribe about Pennsylvania had me in stitches), but on the whole it's about maturing, self exploration and self realization. It's...a spiritual journey and has a lot of depth as a consequence. The fanciful aspects of dreams are there too, but the gravity of their plight remains front and center throughout the story.

Ronan and Hennessy must perfect their skills and abilities in order to help dreams and dreamers everywhere. It's a race against the moderator's persecution as well as the industrial developments that are choking off the essential flow of ley line energy necessary for dreams and dreamers to thrive. They can't remain like Kavinsky. All about the take. The sloppy, wasteful, 'trial and error' level they're been dreaming at their whole lives that drains the ley line to exhaustion. They _must_ advance to a grand scale of dreaming that is precise and refined, efficiently and effectively utilizing the energy with no waste of effort or outcome and the ley line none the worse for their use.

Their mentor guiding them through this learning curve, Bryde, requires them to peel back the insulating layers protecting their inner selves to do this. Because Ronan and Hennessy are a mess, cluttered with all kinds of debris inhibiting their abilities. (Kind of like the ley lines.) They can't advance without addressing the stigmas they're holding onto and there's a lot of ugly things they don't want to address, that they've always vehemently resisted dealing with and are adamant about wanting it to remain buried, consciously as well as subconsciously. And Bryde keeps reminding them they don't have the luxury to be selfish and run away from their issues. People are dying while they dither.

So the story unfolds like a complex origami being deconstructed. Each flap lifted shows a why (which is difficult to see) and the next flap their struggle to address the justifiably deep seated fears and vulnerabilities they developed as a consequence of their experience. The writing brilliantly emulates the delicate process to avoid damaging the origami's material and it remains to be seen whether a flat sheet will be left when the journey's done or whether it'll be a ragged crumpled ball of paper. Like ripping a bandaid off the stripping away of falsehoods and denial about themselves is intense and takes its toll on the dreamers, especially when the huge impediment of their self-worth is exposed.

Mister Impossible has you feeling everything they're going through every step of the way. I kept remembering Gansey's caution to Adam in TRC. "Be careful. His heart is a fragile thing." He was so right. Many of Ronan's scenes are heartbreaking. One of Hennessey's scenes was so harsh, the hurtful things said made me burst into tears to witness the exchange. Do I want to cry listening to a book? No. Conversely, what _fantastic_ writing to elicit such a strong response in me. It's raw, honest and true to life. Which is probably why it hit home with such force.

*phew* Okay. Have to come down off that intense scene...

Loved the book, despite the sticky uncomfortable journeys of self discovery that everyone, not just Ronan and Hennessy, are experiencing in Mister Impossible. The inclusion of art and the creation of art makes for fascinating scenes that had me looking up the paintings and remembering my visits to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Maggie Stiefvater has captured the ethereal quality of the building and the beauty of how the art is displayed, as well as the hollow impact of seeing just a frame where the art was stolen.

Mister Impossible is full of a lot of things like that. It's rich in emotional experiences. It isn't a fun listen, but it is very revelatory. There are moments of wonder as well as depths of sorrow and the evolution of all the characters and growth of the story will blow your mind at its finish.

Will Patton's narration is superb, making every character vivid and stepping off the page.

Well worth the credit.

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love narration as always

love will's narration as always. this book was a little sluggish but overall enjoyed the book

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Everything on the Line

Amazing read...this book makes you want to find out how it all ends. This is the second book in author Maggie Stiefvater's Dreamer Trilogy. Readers need to have read Book One, Call Down the Hawk first. Will Patton's narration performance is excellent and adds impact to the story.

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love this series, these characters, this world

another great story in a line of great stories. loved the development of this book and the outlaw vibes… excited for the upcoming conclusion to an epic trilogy

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Always amazed.

Maggie S --as always-- delivers!!! Will P. Rocks! What a great part 2. Love how this alternate reality has grown, from Raven Boys to now. Wow!!!

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Gave it a second chance

When I say I’m obsessed with the first 4 TRC books I mean obsessed! Will Patton brings those alive! No other book series can even compare with the characters, story, all of it!
So when CDH came out but had very little to do with those relationships and introduced these new odd characters it was a struggle to stick with the story and truthfully I didn’t even understand it very well! So when this came out I had zero interest. I was challenged to give it a go. But to use a credit on a book I was almost certain to dislike… that was a big ask! A year later I had a few credits and decided ok let’s give it a go. I completely understood it far more than the first. However, still not near what TRC
Books gave me. I am going to get the most recent and what I believe is last in this series though. So I am interested.

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