Just One More Chapter

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. 

-Vera Nazarian

 

I'm just trying to light up the world as much as I can one SciFi/paranormal/fantasy/space opera/time travel book at a time. 

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Mister Impossible by Maggie Stiefvater

 

 

 

 

Wuuuuu eeee this book was a head trip!! The ineffable Mrs Maggie Stiefvater never fails to bring the Awesome especially in the last half hour of this book. I enjoyed this novel, as I have done with the rest of her books, auditorily, using Audible... (not a paid endorsement)... and Will Patton IS THE voice for all of Maggie's amazing characters and I absolutely LOVE his raspy, husky, inflections. I could listen to him read the phone book. Yummmmmm! Patton's voice + Maggie's full bodied characters are the one two punch that brings her gritty work to life.

 

Maggie's characters are deep and complex and gray... OH SO (yummily) GRAY! They have complicated backstories. They have expertly crafted interconnections and they are so delicious it hurts. Not only are the book's MCs dynamic, the secondary characters are rich and sonorous too. They all deserve to be taken out, put on a pedestal and lavished verbally with beautific prose but alas, I don't have the mindset right now for that and you probably don't want to read pages of character idiolzation. BUTTTTT there is Ronan... beautifully, humanly broken (in his own jagged way)... a lovingly restored stained glass montage of Rage and Love and Family (both found and blood) and Belonging and Power (in every sense of the word) and impotence. He is a rather interesting specimen of Juxtaposition. I don't want to give too much away so I'll just say that I am 100% sure that if you pick up this book (and by extension, this series starting with The Raven Boys) you will NOT be disappointed. It may feel like we didn't get very much done or had gone very far in this installment but in retrospect... when looking at the book (and the series) as a whole, you'll see that we have traveled a long way from where it all started. It also seems to me that book #3 is now set up to be one hell of a finale! I don't know about you but that ending?? Bryde reveal?? Twisty turns?? All of it... Epic!!

 

Overall:

 

The writing... gritty excellence 

The background building... robust and intoxicating

The characters... perfection (as always). I'm sorry, I love love LOVE them and this book... this series... the series it branched off of... this author... 

 

*** Chef's Kiss ***

 

I'm biased (with just cause) but I'm also a bit lost. I have SOOO many more questions now that I have finished the book.

Bryde reveal???

Jordan awake? 

WTH happened to Ronan???

Is it a Sweetmetal???

What's the secret to making Sweetmetals??

WTH happened with the moderators??

What's the endgame Ronan?? Hennessy?? 

End of the layline??

End of the world??

My non Zed brain can't handle the uncertainty of it all... the unadulterated Awesomeness.

I. MUST. Have. The last book. ASAP!!

 

Interest piqued... Mind blown... Well done Mrs. Stiefvater... well done!

 

~ Enjoy