It is easiest to remember them individually:ĬARMEN FAROOQ-LANE: Farooq-Lane joined the Moderators after her brother, Nathan, killed her parents with a dreamt weapon, and it came to light that they weren’t the first people he’d offed. The events of the Dreamer Trilogy are bound into several threads which eventually snarl together.

The ley lines seem to be suffering lately, causing living dreams to have vague spells even if their dreamer is fine.

EXCEPT, of course, they are brought to rare places of power along the ley lines, where they must stay forever (or fall asleep when they leave).

If a living dream’s dreamer dies, the dream falls fast asleep permanently.

Leaving for too long makes him bleed black (he calls it nightwash) and also lose control of just what he brings from his dreams. These two facts have made him virtually a prisoner of the Barns.He must also be close to a ley line (an invisible energy line) in order to dream with focus.Ronan needs to manifest his dreams regularly or he becomes unstable.Ronan has met only two other dreamers in his life, his father and a fellow student, but both are dead, so he assumes there aren’t any others (dubious assumption, but Ronan’s a high school drop out who never took stats)(stay in school, kids!).The world of the Dreamer Trilogy is largely the same as our world most people have no knowledge of magic.THINGS TO REMEMBER ABOUT THE LYNCH FAMILY: In order, the books are: Call Down the Hawk, Mister Impossible, and Greywaren. (we all know someone like that, don’t we? who makes their relationship woes everyone else’s problem)

When his uncontrollable dreaming prevents this future, an anguished Ronan kicks off a series of events that will eventually lead to all the characters facing the end of the world as they know it.

The Dreamer Trilogy silently watched the Raven Cycle spend four books combining coming-of-age tropes, thriller elements, and Celtic mythology in ill-advised proportions and then stood up and said “hold my beer.” It spends three books shoveling art history, car chases, mobsters, ancient Irish stories, forgery, chronic illness, and generational trauma into the washing machine and pouring so much soap in over the top that bubbles coat the floor almost instantly.ĭespite the global scope of the spin-off, the emotional core is quite intimate: Ronan, who is both dangerous and dying because of his ability to pull things out of his dreams, attempts to follow his high school boyfriend Adam to college.

It focuses on the orphaned Lynch brothers-irritable Declan, irascible Ronan, and irresistible Matthew-about a year after the events of The Raven King (there is a short story, “Opal,” that covers some of that gap). Call Down the Hawk is the first book in the Dreamer Trilogy, a spin off trilogy that follows the four-book Raven Cycle.

The dreamer trilogy maggie stiefvater