3.5 ?.... Still a favourite ... I don't know ! Conflicted 
 Rereading Maggie's series is kind of disappointing, to be honest. During this reread, there were so many more things that annoyed me and that I didn't enjoy and it made my reading take a very long time ... I also ended up skimming - and even skipping ! - certain sections. 
 It was mainly specific characters that annoyed me this time around, namely Blue and the Gray Man. Blue was extremely irritating the whole way through, her 'feminism' or sense of, for lack of a better word, social justice and awareness felt fake and forced and she only seemed to use it when it suited HER ; e.g. the almost slut shaming way she looks at Orla mainly because she has Gansey's attention but also before that, then being 'insulted by' - and incredibly rude to - Ronan when he refuses to go for a reading. That whole part annoyed me no end, and I'm not even religious. Ronan didn't even SAY anything about religion in particular, he POLITELY declined ! (and come on, Ronan is rarely polite...) And she acts like a dumb childish bitch by putting words in her mouth ... like okay 
 (Also Adam and Blue's relationship was so bad and I am so glad it ended, even if that entire bit of the book was cringey and borderline AWFUL) 
 I dislike the Gray Man because he is boring. He's annoying and another pretentious asshole character who is oh so intelligent, and somehow ends up with a redemption arc and have Maggie try to make him into a nice guy. (view spoiler)[I don't know why a middle aged ruthless murderer gets a redemption arc because oh my bruthur was mean to poor ickle me :-( when a fucked up drug addict teenager who has not killed anyone (at least deliberately even if he did / to our knowledge) commits suicide ... and nobody fucking cares ! Like seriously what ... Ronan forgives the Gray Man who fucking brutally murdered his dad aka did the thing that caused the most trauma for Ronan ever BUT isn't a TINY bit sad about the suicide (that happened in front of him) of someone he was at least ALMOST friends with ... okay ... (hide spoiler)] 
 All that shit with Adam and the tree also got insanely boring near to the end and I just ended up completely skipping those sections. Yeah, I like Adam, and I have respect for the character of him and everything, but seriously. Boring, and dare I even say slightly bloated by Maggie's prose which I had previously loved (and still sometimes am loving!). 
 The treatment of mental illness pissed me off no end. (also spoilers for 
 Shiver 
 under the cut...)(view spoiler)[ I mean, the first time I was reading it I personally loved that Ronan was suicidal and YET could still have/do normal teenage things ... but then OH he's not suicidal haha it was outside forces like fucking dream creatures attacking him coincidentally just on his wrist so it looks like a suicide attempt ! Right ! ... I wouldn't have probably minded SO MUCH, if I hadn't known that Maggie has done this before: just like Sam in Shiver whose parents found out he was a werewolf and insanely slit his wrists in a bathtub for him !!! Also, in the Raven Boys Maggie has Noah being all weird about eating and lead some people to believe he had an eating disorder ... but no haha he was a GHOST ! In Blue Lily, Lily Blue there is also the part when Mallory has that dog for anxiety but. ... . SURPRISE haha it's not for anxiety it's for something else ~magical~ ! Like honestly I am just SO tired of this shit, what the fuck is WRONG with Maggie to even think it's good to write this ... the one actually legitimate suicidal person (Kavinsky) is just completely thrown away and not cared about ... lmao nice one Maggie thanks ... (hide spoiler)] 
 Kavinsky, Ronan, Declan, and even Gansey are honestly the saving grace of this book for me. Declan is beautiful and I love him, his brother completely hates him for some reason and he still is trying his best to keep him safe. Kavinsky is an ASSHOLE and toxic and bad but honestly I don't care (view spoiler)[and I will forever be bitter about his death (hide spoiler)]. Gansey is good, Gansey's passion and love for everything is endearing and he is great even when he is being an asshole. 
 Ronan is my absolute favourite always. I think that my favourite thing about this book is the fact that most of the writing is in Ronan's view, and it's really nice to just be in Ronan's head because he is, to me, the most interesting character ! (Might write more later ...) 
 Overall, I am disappointed in this book, though a handful of characters is what is keeping this book, however low the rating, as one of my favourites (at least for now). After this series and maybe a reread of Shiver etc (because I want to read 
 Sinner 
 ) I will not likely read anything else by Maggie Stiefvater again.