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What a mesmerizing and bizarre book that was! Seriously. The Raven Boys is weird, but I really liked it! In fact, I loved the very first chapter, then became utterly confused, which soon morphed into fascination, then back into love. It was not what I was expecting at all though, but what it ended up being was something super unique. Based on the blurb I was expecting to follow Blue as she avoided falling in love, since she's destined to kill her true love with a kiss. She comes from a family of psychics, and yet she has no powers of her own. She can only amplify the signal for others. Then she sees a young man's ghost, while watching the graveyard with her kind of aunt. He's either her true love, a boy she kills, or both.

While The Raven Boys does touch on Blue's tragic love life, the main story is actually a kind of treasure hunt. A group of private school boys--named the Raven Boys by Blue--led by Gansey, are investigating ley lines in their small Virginian town. Gansey is obsessed with finding this line of energy, in hopes that it will lead him to a long dead Welsh King, who will grant a favor once he's been awaken. If that's not an awesome and unique plot in the making, I'm not sure what it is! It did take me a while to fully understand what the heck Gansey and his friends were doing though, since at times the beginning of the book is very vague or bogged down with details. It isn't until they meet Blue and she offers to help them that I really settled into their adventure.

Aside from being initially confused about the plot, I also a bit overwhelmed by the number of characters. We're first introduced to Blue and Gansey, whom I assumed would be our two POVs. However, they're soon followed by the other Raven Boys, Noah, Adam, and Ronan. Then there's their creepy Latin teacher, Barrington Whelk. Blue's mother and several aunts and cousins are also involved at one point or another. Plus there's all of the connections between each of them, and their individual motivations for the ley line hunt. The Raven Boys does jump around between these many characters, so it took me awhile to feel comfortable with all of them. Luckily, they're all very distinct so it becomes easy to keep them all straight.

The Raven Boys is a very different kind of paranormal novel. It's full of subtle magic, ancient legends, ghosts, psychics, betrayals and mystery. I could never figure what would happen next, especially since once the story picks up, lots of weird happenings start happening. It is quite slow moving though. It takes a while for the pieces to start falling together, so at first I wasn't sure if I was going to end up enjoying it as much as I did. The Raven Boys is by no means fast paced or action packed, but it is exciting in its own way. The ending was very interesting, and I'm curious to see what happens to Blue and the boys in The Dream Thieves.


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The Raven Boys Maggie Stiefvater Books Reviews

In the first installment of The Raven Boys, you're introduced to a sixteen year old girl named blue. Everyone in her family is a psychic except for her. All her life her psychic kin have told her that she will kill her true love if they kissed. Although she is not psychic, she has the ability to heighten the power that others have. She is a walking battery. Her aunt, Neeve, comes to town,and after one look at Blue she announces that this year she will find her true love. Through a series of events she finds him to be a handsome man named Richard Gansey III (Gansey). There are only a few problems with this revelation. 1. He's a Raven Boy, an obnoxious group of boys named after their pre ivy league's mascot. Which means he's a rich dick.
2. When she meets rich dick he acts like a rich dick by offering her money to go on a date with his shy but adorable friend, Adam.
3. At a corpse road ritual, a few nights prior she found out that by the end of the year, Gansy might die.
Gansy turns out to be great at looking for lost treasure and that is why he ended up in Henrietta , Virginia. He's been all around the world trying to find lost artifacts or ancient things no one believes exist. While looking for the treasure that lie in this small town he recruits 3 of his best friends. Ronan, a smoldering bald headed bad boy. Adam, the poor cute scholarship Raven boy. And Noah, the sweet but messy boy.
I'm not gonna lie, At the beginning of this book I thought this was definitely going to be a DNF and that I was for sure going to rate it a polite, and in my opinion, generous 2. Her writing in the beginning was not appealing to me. Instead of showing us that blue was fashionable and quirky she wrote it out for the reader. Point blank. Multiple times.

"Blue looked at her clothing. It involved a few thin layering shirts, including one she had altered using a method called shredding. “What’s wrong with it?” Maura shrugged. “Nothing. I always wanted an eccentric daughter. I just never realized how well my evil plans were working"

I'm pretty sure I rolled my eyes until they were almost stuck every time stiefvater mentioned the fact that blue was eccentric just because of her styling choices. Another thing that peeved me was her apparent obsession in using the adjective "hungry". Im almost positive that she used it at least once every other paragraph. (That's definitely an exaggeration but honestly it was a stinking butt ton).
But around the 30-40% mark I got used to her writing style and I ignored any sentence that included the word hungry. After I was able to do that I quite enjoyed it. Its definitely not the best thing I've read and the plot still moved pretty slow for my taste and I absolutely loathed any chapter dealing with Barrington... But none the less it was enjoyable.
What a mesmerizing and bizarre book that was! Seriously. The Raven Boys is weird, but I really liked it! In fact, I loved the very first chapter, then became utterly confused, which soon morphed into fascination, then back into love. It was not what I was expecting at all though, but what it ended up being was something super unique. Based on the blurb I was expecting to follow Blue as she avoided falling in love, since she's destined to kill her true love with a kiss. She comes from a family of psychics, and yet she has no powers of her own. She can only amplify the signal for others. Then she sees a young man's ghost, while watching the graveyard with her kind of aunt. He's either her true love, a boy she kills, or both.

While The Raven Boys does touch on Blue's tragic love life, the main story is actually a kind of treasure hunt. A group of private school boys--named the Raven Boys by Blue--led by Gansey, are investigating ley lines in their small Virginian town. Gansey is obsessed with finding this line of energy, in hopes that it will lead him to a long dead Welsh King, who will grant a favor once he's been awaken. If that's not an awesome and unique plot in the making, I'm not sure what it is! It did take me a while to fully understand what the heck Gansey and his friends were doing though, since at times the beginning of the book is very vague or bogged down with details. It isn't until they meet Blue and she offers to help them that I really settled into their adventure.

Aside from being initially confused about the plot, I also a bit overwhelmed by the number of characters. We're first introduced to Blue and Gansey, whom I assumed would be our two POVs. However, they're soon followed by the other Raven Boys, Noah, Adam, and Ronan. Then there's their creepy Latin teacher, Barrington Whelk. Blue's mother and several aunts and cousins are also involved at one point or another. Plus there's all of the connections between each of them, and their individual motivations for the ley line hunt. The Raven Boys does jump around between these many characters, so it took me awhile to feel comfortable with all of them. Luckily, they're all very distinct so it becomes easy to keep them all straight.

The Raven Boys is a very different kind of paranormal novel. It's full of subtle magic, ancient legends, ghosts, psychics, betrayals and mystery. I could never figure what would happen next, especially since once the story picks up, lots of weird happenings start happening. It is quite slow moving though. It takes a while for the pieces to start falling together, so at first I wasn't sure if I was going to end up enjoying it as much as I did. The Raven Boys is by no means fast paced or action packed, but it is exciting in its own way. The ending was very interesting, and I'm curious to see what happens to Blue and the boys in The Dream Thieves.