Title: The Raven Boys
Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
three close boys attending Aglionby school (referred to as the Raven boys) accompanied by a psychic’s daughter follow the search of Glendower, a deceased Welsh King… you can’t get anymore awesome than that?
It’ll make more sense when you read it, I’ll tell you that. Plus, we wouldn’t want me accidentally spoiling anything. Those are the main points, and it is really interesting, so if you haven’t already look into it!
This book is very unique, to say the least.“Is this thing safe?”
“Safe as life,” Gansey replied.
I finished the whole 400 pages in two days! Yay for winter break!
The whole concept about Glendower and the ley lines is fascinating. The characters are PRECIOUS. Blue, Gansey, Adam and Ronan. It’s intensely intriguing reading about each of their particular worries – their struggles, ambitions, worries, and how that all spirals together.
~ the plot ~“Fate,” Blue replied, glowering at her mother, “is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.”
I don’t know about anyone else but I found it slightly confusing. Ok, slightly is an understatement. I was rather confused at times while reading the book about the whole Ley lines and Glendower thing. Trust me though, it makes sense in the end. Eventually.
“Have you heard of the legends of sleeping kings? The legends that heroes like Llewellyn and Glendower and Arthur aren’t really dead, but are instead sleeping in tombs, waiting to be woken?”
I just loved all of the humour. This book was ridiculously funny at times and it had me laughing and laughing and all of my family members were staring at me, positive I had finally gone insane.
~ characters ~“”Nothing. I always wanted an eccentric daughter. I just never realised how well my evil plans were working.”
Man, they… are… PRECIOUS (like I said before, but no, I’m not trying to imitate Gollum or anything here, I wish they were mine but… they’re not – Maggie Stiefvater is one lucky woman).
To start with, Blue.
“At one store, Gansey had started to pay for Blue’s potato chips and she’d snatched them away.
“I don’t want you to buy me food!” Blue said. “If you pay for it, then it’s like I’m… be—be—”
“Beholden to me?” Gansey suggested pleasantly.
“Don’t put words into my mouth.”
“It was your word.”
“You assumed it was my word. You can’t just go around assuming.”
“But that is what you meant, isn’t it?”
She scowled. “I’m done with this conversation.”
Who wouldn’t like a sixteen year old “very sensible” girl with spiky black hair, dresses the shades of every colour in the rainbow, and who is humorous without really trying. Like with the whole Butternut thing oh my goodness gracious me I was in hysterics… inside joke to all those who have read this book
