A 4.5 stars YA with wonderful characters and at absorbing mystery

A 4.5 stars YA with wonderful characters and at absorbing mystery

The Raven Boys (The Raven Boys Quartet) (Paperback)

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Synopsis [by Goodreads.com]

There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Marks Eve, Neeve said. Either youre his true love. , , or you killed him.
It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees themnot until this year, When a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.
His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers he is indeed 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 cant explain Entirely. He has it allfamily money, good looks, devoted friendsbut hes looking for much more than that. He is on a quest That has Encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, The Fierce soul who rank Fromanger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.

For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned That She wants to cause her true love to the. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life Becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, shes not so sure anymore. [...]

Review

When reading the Goodreads blurb, one has to assume thatthis is a kind of tragic YA romance, but it is definitely not. Well, there are a lot of differnt kinds of tragedy in this story and with just a few sentences to describe Blue's premonitions about Gansey, Maggie stepfather makes you really feel "love" - ​​but a love Possibly yet to come in a sequel.
For the first half of the book, and the Blue Raven boys nearly even talk to eachother, each of them living Their Own Stories at first, They only Gradually Come Together As One beach. And this is why I did not rate the book fivestars: I understand the necessity of telling each of Their stories, of "laying the ground" for what is to come When They finally become a group [You Could Say a "joint force" ], but it made me impatient. I found myself wanting the "true stroy" to start Whenever I turned a page and was disappointed When it did not. Or as Ronan, One of the Boys, says at one point: "It has started." - And this is When Blue and the boys finally happen to meet in earnest.

And boy When it did start, I was so absorbed, I could not lay it down, until I had finished the last of the 454 pages. I'm still perplexed at how Maggie stepfather Brought the different strands together so neatly did I at sametime felt like "Yeah of course, how else Could It Be!" and "Wow, wait, WHAT?!?". That's how wonderful she developed the story and the characters.
If you have read one of Ms. stepfather books already, you know that she Creates wonderful characters and she did that again. Each Of Those boys, the strange "family" of psychic women Blue and her mother live with - They are drawn so wonderfully, so full of live and so believable. Each of the boys has a different sort of tragedy That he has to still suffer from and my heart broke for each of them. Blue Lives With A Deadly Prophecy and the weight of her knowledge of Gansey's predicted death. And If That Were not enough, there is a mystery about her father did is touched, but not solved by the end of this book. And Blue is not a lighthearted character, but she obviously feels Although the weight of all that on her shoulders, she is just as well not gloomy at all. More ... pracitical. And in a good way.

But the mystery, or You Could Say the Mysteries, are like characters of Their Own, theyhave a presence like that - a few, not all of them are solved at the end, but there is a lot to go on in the next installment [s]. There Were Times When it felt like reading a thriller, at other times like reading a gothic horror novel. And I enjoyed it very much. When Blue joins Gansey and the other boys, They are on a kind of quest: finding the dead Welsh king Glendower, who is Said to rest along one of the ley lines and [just like the legendary Arthur] Could be woken up and would grant a favor to whomever freed him.
The quest as such is interesting enough, Especially since Ms. stepfather wrote the magic system so believable did I instantly thought: "Well, why not, It could work that way". But even more interesting thing to Gradually get to know why Gansey and the other boys were trying to find the dead king.

The book What Not what I expected and Although I wish the first half would have done more for me, I really really liked it. Maggie stepfather has a way of telling stories, of creating believable characters and just slightly alternateworlds and of just writing wonderful sentences did stay in my headlong after having read them. And all this I found again in "The Raven Boys". The next installment is on pre-order.

nikon p 610 Rank: 3/5
April 26
Good, but some problems Rank: 3/5
April 7
Very disappointed !!!!! 172 Rank: 1/5
January 28
aesthetic and functional! 5 Rank: 5/5
February 10
Perfect 1 9795 Rank: 5/5
August 13
PERFECT 1 10959 Rank: 5/5
April 11

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