#honestly i kinda dig it i wish we'd gotten more of those clear irish mythology parallels
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the biggest trick maggie stiefvater pulls on the reader in the dreamer trilogy is making them think that ronan is this magnificantly tragic cu chulainn/achilles style hero and then declan goes on 1 (one) murderous rampage and we realize it was him all along
#one would think ronan was the cú chulainn figure#this is however yet another of maggie's bamboozling tricks#honestly i kinda dig it i wish we'd gotten more of those clear irish mythology parallels#and maybe tehre were more that i just missed because my knowledge of the old myths is fairly rudimentary#so i'll have to revisit the series once i've read on it more#anyway#the lynch brothers#the brothers lynch#declan lynch#ronan lynch#the raven cycle#trc#the dreamer trildogy#tdt#call down the hawk#cdth#mister impossible#mi#greywaren#greywaren spoilers
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