I will always be drawn to Maggie Stiefvater’s novels. Her stories are richly imaginative and set in the real world, with just enough of the supernatural to make them seem plausible. Mister Impossible is the second book of The Dreamer Trilogy; the first book is Call Down the Hawk. The Dreamer Trilogy is a spin-off of The Raven Cycle, a quartet of books that I do not even know how to summarize even though I have read them all twice. Essentially, The Raven Cycle is about a teenage girl and four private school boys who are in search of a Welsh king named Glendower who is supposedly sleeping underneath a forest called Cabeswater. There are psychics, ley lines, ghosts and other supernatural things in these books. Nothing I say will make these books make sense, all I know is that I enjoy reading The Raven Cycle; I enjoy the characters and their relationships with each other; I enjoy the lyricality of Stiefvater’s writing.

The Dreamer Trilogy focuses on one of the private school boys, Ronan Lynch, who would not have been my first choice to have a trilogy of his own, but it makes the most sense because he is the dreamer. Although not quite as good as The Raven Cycle, The Dreamer Trilogy is so far just as riveting, and is much easier to follow.

As a dreamer, Ronan Lynch is able to use the energy from ley lines to create and pull objects, and people, out of his dreams. I am going to try to keep this review as non-spoilery as possible because if you have not read The Raven Cycle and you like YA, then I suggest you read it. Ronan has a huge chip on his shoulder; he is surly and mean, almost completely unlikable. This is because his family is not very loving or communicative and they keep secrets from each other. His dad, who was also a dreamer (and a criminal), is dead at the beginning of The Raven Cycle; his mother is also gone; his older brother Declan is a priggish asshat; the only family member Ronan likes is his younger brother Matthew, but everyone likes Matthew. Ronan acts out by creating monstrous and dangerous things in his dreams and bringing them into the real world; he also sometimes cannot control his dreams and unwittingly brings out things that cause chaos.

In The Dreamer Trilogy, we learn that the world is full of dreamers, and dreamed objects and people, and people who know about the dreamers and want to use them. There are also people called the Moderators who hunt dreamers because they believe that dreamers are going to destroy the world. The Moderators are after Ronan and another dreamer that he has teamed up with, Jordan Hennessy, who is also an art forger. Ronan and Hennessy are trying to repair the ley lines that have been weakened by humanity’s destructive effects on our planet, a not-so-subtle metaphor for climate change (if you do not know about the destructive effects of cryptocurrencies and server farms, Google it. It is terrifying the seemingly innocuous things humans come up with to destroy our planet). But what happens if the ley lines return to their former glory and dreamers have an unlimited power source they can tap into? Can the dreamers be trusted to not use their ability to cause destruction themselves?

The Dreamer Trilogy poses some serious questions, but it is fun to read because the narration and the characters’ dialogue is snappy and witty, and each book has ended on a massive cliff hanger that makes me excited to read the next one. If you have not read anything written by Maggie Stiefvater, I highly recommend The Raven Cycle, The Dreamer Trilogy, and her standalone novel, The Scorpio Races.