The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming – they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives – they will sleep forever if their dreamers die.
And then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. To use them. To trap them. To kill them before their dreams destroy us all.
Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality.
Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it.
Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer . . . and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed. . . .

Call Down the Hawk is the first book set in the Dreamer Trilogy, a new series by Stiefvater featuring Lynch brothers and Adam Parrish from The Raven Cycle.
Dreamers – the ones who can bring things back from their dreamscapes. More accurately, individuals who can bring dreams to life. Visionaries – people with the ability to project tiny glimpses of future tied closely to certain dreamers. And also, Moderators – the hunters. A young visionary called Parsiphal sees the end of the world caused by a dreamer, so the only thing left to do is extinguish all those who have the ability far more powerful than they can comprehend.

Lynches are a complicated bunch – three brothers, estranged from each other by years of building walls and keeping secrets to find a way of dealing with their parents’ deaths. The remnants from Niall’s family “business” still haunts the family, and no matter how much they spend cleaning, the poisonous bits from their past will never stop coming back. Declan is the older brother, the legal parent if so, but he needs help more than any of them do. His carefully-built castle of lies starts to fall to pieces when hunters come for his family, yet he might have to consider reaching for measures he regarded unimaginable to protect his brothers.


Ronan is a dreamer and he’s the dreamer they’re actually after, but he’s not the only one. Dreaming things to life is not as harmless as it seems, especially when things lurking inside one’s dreamscape have the potential to ruin the world. His life has always restricted to safe zones where he could keep his secrets safe and demons at bay, but he wants his life to be more than that. Dreaming would not be so terrifying if only his father hadn’t left him completely clueless about the ability he’d inherited. But that doesn’t mean he can’t help others, such as Jordan Hennessy, whose dreams are killing her and will soon kill everyone else if demons of her dreamscape are let out.

For readers like me, who expect this book to be written in an undertone of the Raven Cycle, abandon those ideas and prepare for something wild. The Dreamer Trilogy started with an unexpected pace and replaced the eerie, paranormal and mysterious atmosphere of The Raven Cycle with a fight of survival that becomes something much bigger than a small-town story. It took me a good amount of time to get into the plot – I feel like the beginning was really stretched-out and hard to focus on (I still don’t know what were some things supposed to do with the ending), but at some point everything reared into action and I was surprised with the speed I finished it. Just when I was sure I was going to dislike most of the things about it, Stiefvater turned around boring-ish and unintelligible narrative into an attention-seeking adventure and thrilling cliffhangers.


I knew from the start that there won’t be any full-trc-reunion, but that doesn’t mean this story didn’t make me feel slightly robbed, especially for the lack of Adam Parrish in it. I appreciated new narratives being introduced, but in the end, the only ones I actually liked were Ronan and Declan’s. The new perspective in their lives brought an entirely new dimension to their characters – their personal growth as well as the evolution of their relationships as brothers. I don’t think it was possible for me to love Ronan Lynch more than I did, but this book proved me oh so wrong. Jordan and Hennessy were pretty interesting themselves, but I simply didn’t see their characters as anything extraordinary.