It felt like more of a nebulous idea than a physical one because it wasn’t explained very much. The magic system in relation to the Welsh King/Cabeswater still didn’t feel entirely real to me. The character we jump to in the second book has a more interesting plot (and less of a propensity to incessantly whine about his life) and more immediately becomes interwoven with our characters. His scenes just dragged the book and made it significantly less enjoyable. In the first book, the character we kept jumping back to had an impact on the story but not until the very end. Having become familiar with the author’s writing style, I understood more that she wasn’t just including characters or storylines just to take up a few more pages but because for whatever reason they were a very important aspect of the story. I liked seeing events that happened in the past that made them who they are today or the way actions they took in the first book are now affecting them.
You start to understand their motivations and dreams, which was really nice because I felt a disconnect from them in the first book. The main characters were developed a little bit more in this book than they had been in the previous. As this is the second book in the series, there may be minor spoilers for events or aspects of the first book in this review but not for the second book. It was a combination of a more interesting plot, the magic system being developed more and having spent time with these characters that we finally have formed a connection to them. The Dream Thieves was definitely a more engaging novel than the first book in the series.
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