Greywaren is the third and final volume of The Dreamer Trilogy. I love Maggie Stiefvater’s novels, I enjoyed the first two books of The Dreamer Trilogy, but unfortunately, I found Greywaren to be an underwhelming conclusion. SPOILER ALERT: do not read further if you plan on reading The Dreamer Trilogy. Even though Greywaren is the weakest link, I still think the trilogy as a whole is worth reading if you enjoy YA novels.

Greywaren is the slimmest volume of the trilogy. After the ley lines are shut down at the end of Mister Impossible, it seems like there is not much story left for Stiefvater left to tell without the limitless possibilities of dreamers being able to dream people or objects into being. Greywaren is also missing the repartee of the previously novels because Ronan spends most of the novel unconscious in the real world and floating through a sweetmetal sea in the dreamworld. That leaves us with Hennessy, who I think is snarky and annoying.

So the ley lines have been shut down, dreamers cannot bring objects back from their dreams anymore, and every living creature that has been dreamed is asleep. The characters who remain conscious spend most of their time running around trying to get their hands on sweetmetals, which are the only things that can keep dreamed people awake. But it was all worth it to stop the apocalypse, right Carmen Farooq-Lane?

Except it turns out that shutting down the ley lines has not stopped the apocalypse. Of course, shutting down the ley lines has not stopped the apocalypse. Maybe if I had read all three novels at once instead of over the past few years, I would have seen it coming who was really behind the apocalypse, but I did not, and still I just thought, “Meh.”

Oh well. I will not say that Greywaren is so bad that it has turned me off Maggie Stiefvater’s novels for good. I am sure she has lots of great stories still to tell. I am just glad that I finished The Dreamer Trilogy and can put it behind me now.