Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them–until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her.His name is Gansey, a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a … way she can’t entirely explain. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul whose emotions range from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher who notices many things but says very little.For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She doesn’t believe in true love, and never thought this would be a problem. But as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.
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This is my favorite series. Even my profile picture is in honor of this series. It is AMAZING!
Great writing, great characters, and a touch of magic. This book had it all.
Great story!
This is one of the strangest plots I’ve ever read, and I absolutely adored it! I’ve always been one to select books with fast-paced action. I imagined something quite different when I read the summary of this story, so when I began reading it, I had my doubts seeing as it wasn’t some fast fantasy plot. But the thing is, this story has its own sort of fast pace.
This book has a very unique atmosphere. It’s one of the few books where the atmosphere is tangible to me. The settings and events are all entwined with an atmosphere that is somewhat eerie and magical in a way I hadn’t experienced before in a book. It has a way to make you FEEL the magic these people are living in. The events all happen fast in the sense that you are not stuck in the same thing for long, and something new is happening every other few pages, so it kept me very attentive and interested.
I would recommend this book to just about anyone. To me its something new and fresh; something very different from the usual things I’ve read. I already bought the other two books and am waiting for the break to read them.
This book was good but not as good as the hype around it . I think some things could have been explored more but it worked.
I listened to this book and then the three that followed it. Now I’ve listened to all of them again and again. I love these characters. I love the plot of the book. I love everything about this series of four books. One note for the audiobooks: they’re read by Will Patton, who is flawless in narrating a story.
Blue Sargent lives in a houseful of psychics but she has not extra-sensory gifts, or so she thinks. She has always avoided the boys who go to the elite prep school in town but suddenly there are four of them in her life, and they’re on a quest to find a king.
These books will grip you from the first page and you’ll be filled with regret when you reach the end of the fourth books. I so want to know what’s happening with these characters now.
I cannot praise this series enough. Maggie has such a magic way with words and dialogue that is original and unlike anything or anyone else. Her characters are so clearly defined that they leap off the page and into your heart.
* Fascinating and thoroughly engaging characters, especially the family of psychic sisters.
* Wonderful supernatural content. (Not the usual YA shapeshifter/vampire/werewolf/witch melange, thank goodness.)
* Tremendously good writing (at some, very few times, a little “too” good, in the way that “literary” writing draws attention to itself rather than telling the story.)
* Beautifully constructed plot, with some stunning surprises along the way. The ending was a wee bit disappointing, in the way of endings that don’t resolve everything but leave plenty for the sequel.
* Overall, one of the best YA books I have read.
This book, its series, and its author are all my favorite.
Needless to say this book cause me to be hooked now i need to read the other ones!!
What really lifted this book was the wonderfull characters and relationships. They made the book funny and entertaning to read.
Very interesting ya fiction…
(audiobook)
In The Raven Boys, you have magic, a girl who lives with psychic Aunts, ley lines, and talking trees. That is just a small sampling that this story has to offer. I loved Blue and how despite not having her Aunts powers she still found a way to help. I loved the narrator who brought the American South to life and also brought the characters to life. I really enjoyed this book and look forward to reading the others.
It took me about 75 pages to get into this book, but once I did I was hooked!
Amazing originality in this fantasy set in a very real world with flawed characters that win you over anyway. The surprises were my favorite part–when you think you know everything, bang! You get hit with another surprise. Loved it.
A very fast paced book. Fun to read from four different POVs including three males. Unlike any other book I’ve read. I plan to read book #2 soon.
I love Maggie’s writing style. Great character development, it’s got that Outsiders vibe, and the magic and mysticism is so lit.
When I first heard about The Raven Boys, I thought it was going to be like every other YA novel in existence. Maggie Stiefvater surprised me in ways I cannot accurately convey. It’s now among my favorite books, which are the other ones in the quartet.
The way she wrote this book, by spiraling off on rabbit trails which compare random, yet strangely common seeming, situations(that I suppose are similar but why ask me when you can read the gem yourself!) with the current situation. By doing this, it gives a reader a sense of knowing exactly what Maggie was trying to convey because one can understand what she means without having to directly experience what is being compared. This brought the book closer to home tremendously, while allowing one to literally bask in the sweet, sweet eloquence.
I found it to hold a feeling of magic. The fast cars, old Virginia money, psychics, Ley Lines, dreamers, Latin trees, and Welsh Kings. It’s all magic to me now. It’s like wasting time where it isn’t really wasted, with a friend. This book is a phenomena of it’s own and very dear to my heart. If you do happen to stumble upon it in a library, or maybe go searching for it, read it slowly. That way you can absorb all of the literary wonders found within.