And the way he reads the story brings a whole other flavor to the prose and the combination is just perfection for me. He’s become the voice of these characters for me. I did also listen to this in audio (as I did all The Raven Boys books) and Will Patton is the narrator (again) and he just does such an amazing job. That off-kilter feeling…that’s the stuff right there for me, and there are few authors who can pull it off well. Maggie Stiefvater has a delicious way with words that somehow manages to both ground a story and create a mythic atmosphere, a sense of unreality that makes everything feel slightly off-kilter. One of the things I loved best about this book is the prose.

Also, those books are great, so why not read them?

Now, you don’t have to have read The Raven Boys to pick up Call Down the Hawk, but I do recommend it because it will give you a little more insight and context into a few of the characters and their relationships with one another. It was so great being back in this world, revisting some of my favorite characters and meeting new ones. This was one of my most highly anticipated books of the year and I’m happy to say that it didn’t let me down in the least. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it.Ĭarmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality. To kill them before their dreams destroy us all. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives – they will sleep forever if their dreamers die.Īnd then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming – they can only try to control it.

Call down the hawk by maggie stiefvater