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Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater | Review

3.75? 🌟

This is a hard one to rate for me. Probably somewhere between a 3 and 4 star. On one hand I love being back in the raven boys world but it feels different. It took me a while to get invested in the raven boys series (until BLLB) and I expected to have a more instant connection with the dreamer trilogy because it was a world and characters I was already familiar with. This wasn’t quite the case. While I could read Maggie’s grocery list I love her writing so much I wasn’t super invested in the plot. The book mostly took place in the greater DC area so we lost the whimsy that henrietta/cabeswater or even the Barnes brought to the atmosphere. The kind of nonsense magic that was the dream magic was now more technical which can be a plus and minus. Most of all I missed the friendships and the ladies of fox way. We did get some Adam but mostly it was Ronan’s idea of Adam, and only got blue and gansey in a handful of texts and phones calls. For things I really did enjoy: Declan. We got to know him as more than the annoying older brother as he was a main character in this book. He’s a lot more complex and interesting than previously described and I enjoyed his sections. And honestly the last 50 pages or so really did it for me. I was invested, I was on the edge of my seat, I can’t wait to see what happens in the next book, but I wish the entire book had a bit more of this feeling. After all that rambling, it was a good book, nothing technically wrong, it just didn’t live up to my maybe unrealistic expectations and I found it a bit slow at times.