The Raven Boys - by Maggie Stiefvater

Title: The Raven Boys
Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Published: 18 Sep 2012
Series: The Raven Cycle #1
Rating: 3 stars
Synopsis:
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 them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.
His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is 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 has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s 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 ranges from anger 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 will cause her true love to die. 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, she’s not so sure anymore.

“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”

I listened to this as an audiobook.

I think that Ronan was possibly my favourite character. Seeing him stand up for Adam, wanting to help Noah (even though the way he planned to probably wasn't the right way), and the way that he cared for Chainsaw was lovely as he didn't care about much.

Noah was probably my second favourite. I don't think I could even tell you why, other than he's a softie who likes to pat Blue's hair floof and must be protected with love.

My hope is that in the next book that Ronan and Declan finally sort out whatever's between them and at least try and get along a little better.

I liked that the book was petty much about a self-made quest. It wasn't that they needed to do anything, it's that Gansey and the others wanted to do it. To find Glendover and prove that they've accomplished something.

Another thing that I liked about this book was the part about seeing someone on St. Mark's Eve if you weren't a seer. That you would either kill them or you were there true love. You never know which one it will be and my guess is that it would sort of plague you until you found out one way or another.

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All books in this series:

    1 | The Raven Boys

    2 | The Dream Thieves

    3 | Blue Lily, Lily Blue

    4 | The Raven King