The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

This week I started reading The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater. This is the second book in her series, The Raven Cycle, the first being The Raven Boys which was the subject of my August 2013 post. This book starts by talking about Ronan and his secrets, giving a background on the three Lynch brothers and Ronan's very special secrets. They are about to fly a toy plane without batteries. Ronan has revealed that what he dreams becomes reality, as in the case of his raven, Chainsaw. They manage to successfully fly the plane, proving to sceptic Adam that Ronan really does haev this power.

Then, the point of view switches to a new character who refers to himself as 'The Gray Man'. The Gray Man shows up outside the oldest Lynch brother, Declan's, room which he shares with the youngest brother Matthew. He attacks Declan and Declan pulls a gun out of his drawer, like he was expecting to be attacked at some point, and it was inevitable. They keep fighting and the Gray Man gains the advantage over Declan. He is looking for the 'Greywaren'. Declan promises to find it for him.

Originally, I thought that the Greywaren might be a person, Ronan, because of Ronan's newly uncovered secret to his friends and the fact that it ws unusual. Although that would be almost stereotypical, which Maggie Stiefvater is not. The evil villain wants to use one of the protagonist's powers for evil or for money. But that was too typical for Maggie Stiefvater's imagination and writing style.

It goes back to the Raven Boys and Blue, talking with Gansey's English friend, Roger Mallory, about hwo to find the tomb of the Welsh kign Owen Glendower hidden under several hundred years of mud and grit. They go back to Gansey's Camaro, called the Pig, and head back to Monmouth Manufacturing, the converted warehouse where the boys live. On the way they see a classmate who wants to street race while Gansey and Adam say no. Since this book so far is mostly in Ronan's POV with a bit of Blue's and the Gray Man's we are hearing a lot of Ronan where in the previous book it was in the POVs of Blue, Gansey, Adam and their Latin professor.

The next chapter goes on to talk about the Gray Man and his employer, Dr. Colin Greenmantle. Greenmantle tells the Gray Man that he needs to hurry up because there are other people looking for the Greywaren. Other people that are now looking in Henrietta.

I now suspect that the Greywaren is either another name for the tomb of Glendower or another name for Cabeswater, the place where Glendower's tomb is hidden. The other people that are looking for it, I believe, are Blue's aunt and Blue, Gansey, Ronan, Adam and Noah. I still haev doubts about this theory however, because the Gray Man makes the Greywaren sound more like and object than a person or a place, by saying '"You're going to find that thign for me, and when you do, you're going to give it to me,"'. Now, another theory I have is that the Greywaren could possibly be Gansey's  journal or perhaps some sort of Lynch family heirloom that could be the key to the tomb of Glendower, one that only the eldest Declan knows about.

It seems that Blue and the others are in even more danger now in the second installment of the Raven Cycle.