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A review by ssuprnova
Mister Impossible by Maggie Stiefvater
4.0
listen up::: mister impossible is to dreamer what wayward son is to simon snow.
with this i mean i came in expecting at least SOME fluff and got it so far and few in between and small that i am now heartbroken.
heres the thing tho, this one feels more like a whole book with a developing plot and less like a prologue, which was my main issue with call down the hawk. and maybe im an idiot to ask for this because i know maggie doesnt write to please us necessarily, and i love that about her. but i really really really really really wanted more ronan and less suffering.
and what hurt most (though im sure that was purposeful) is that from the middle onward you can feel ronan start to stray away from himself. i feel like one of the biggest things about ronan in TRC was that we knew he was difficult, but fundamentally GOOD. and here he becomes... morally grey. and normally i love a morally grey character, but FOR RONAN it feels very... wrong. because what is interesting about him is precisely the contrast. up until now i really connected with ronan and his struggles. dreaming aside, obviously -his fear of abandonment, the way he turns inwards just so that he wont have to feel. and i started to feel disconnected from him here, mans simply went ballistic. and i dont love that.
in fact, i ended up connecting more with, say, matthew and jordan. THEIR dynamic was most interesting to me, and jordan as a character, as well. why is declan almost more dimensional than ronan? and why is hennesey so INSSUFERABLE. like. i like her, dont get me wrong, but also i cant stand her.
and i feel that none of the relationships here aside from the one between the lynches has quite the same depth we saw in TRC. and i dont like to compare, i really dont, but i feel like its allowed here considering its the same characters, plus new ones.
again, some of the highlights for me were jordan and hennesey's art discourse (as an artist its just delicious to read, aside from accurate, since maggie herself is one), the two or three times gansey is mentioned because i miss the SHIT out of him, the prose itself, and mags' way to put very common, everyday emotions into words in a way that makes it feel extraordinary. also: ronan with a sword, though he barely uses it.
anyways i literally do not know which side im on and it hurts my brain. when he HELL does the third one come out? i want to cry.
with this i mean i came in expecting at least SOME fluff and got it so far and few in between and small that i am now heartbroken.
heres the thing tho, this one feels more like a whole book with a developing plot and less like a prologue, which was my main issue with call down the hawk. and maybe im an idiot to ask for this because i know maggie doesnt write to please us necessarily, and i love that about her. but i really really really really really wanted more ronan and less suffering.
and what hurt most (though im sure that was purposeful) is that from the middle onward you can feel ronan start to stray away from himself. i feel like one of the biggest things about ronan in TRC was that we knew he was difficult, but fundamentally GOOD. and here he becomes... morally grey. and normally i love a morally grey character, but FOR RONAN it feels very... wrong. because what is interesting about him is precisely the contrast. up until now i really connected with ronan and his struggles. dreaming aside, obviously -his fear of abandonment, the way he turns inwards just so that he wont have to feel. and i started to feel disconnected from him here, mans simply went ballistic. and i dont love that.
in fact, i ended up connecting more with, say, matthew and jordan. THEIR dynamic was most interesting to me, and jordan as a character, as well. why is declan almost more dimensional than ronan? and why is hennesey so INSSUFERABLE. like. i like her, dont get me wrong, but also i cant stand her.
and i feel that none of the relationships here aside from the one between the lynches has quite the same depth we saw in TRC. and i dont like to compare, i really dont, but i feel like its allowed here considering its the same characters, plus new ones.
again, some of the highlights for me were jordan and hennesey's art discourse (as an artist its just delicious to read, aside from accurate, since maggie herself is one), the two or three times gansey is mentioned because i miss the SHIT out of him, the prose itself, and mags' way to put very common, everyday emotions into words in a way that makes it feel extraordinary. also: ronan with a sword, though he barely uses it.
anyways i literally do not know which side im on and it hurts my brain. when he HELL does the third one come out? i want to cry.