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(Third in a series, following [[The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater|The Raven Boys]] and [[The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater|The Dream Thieves]]; I've avoided spoilers for once!)
I know that some publishers send packs of tissues with seriously emotional books. I believe I'm right in saying Bloomsbury did it with Sarah Crossan's heartbreaking [[Apple And and Rain by Sarah Crossan|Apple And Rain]]. As far as I'm aware, Scholastic didn't send them with this, unless they got lost in the post between the Bookbag and me. Really, Scholastic? You think that's fair? You send a book that had me crying by page 40 and utterly destroyed before the page numbers hit triple digits, and you can't at least throw in a pack of tissues? Good grief!
That complaint is, to be fair, pretty much the only one you can make about the best book yet in what's been an incredible series. Maggie Stiefvater is an exquisitely lyrical writer, who marries up gorgeously evocative prose with wonderful characters and a superb plot. I won't attempt a summary - if you're on board with the series, you'll know where we left off last time around; if you're not reading it yet it would merely confuse you. (Also, why aren't you reading it yet?) It's enough to say that the third in the quartet is packed full of magic, mystery, surprises, romance, and the legend of Glendower, the sleeping Welsh king who everybody seems to be searching for.
