The Raven Boys
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- €4.49
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- €4.49
Publisher Description
This is the first book in a brand new series from bestselling author, Maggie Stiefvater. Fans of SHIVER, LINGER and FOREVER will love this new quartet! Blue has spent the majority of her sixteen years being told that if she kisses her true love, he will die. When Blue meets Gansey's spirit on the corpse road she knows there is only one reason why - either he is her true love or she has killed him. Determined to find out the truth, Blue becomes involved with the Raven Boys, four boys from the local private school (lead by Gansey) who are on a quest to discover Glendower - a lost ancient Welsh King who is buried somewhere along the Virginia ley line. Whoever finds him will be granted a supernatural favour. Never before has Blue felt such magic around her. But is Gansey her true love? She can't imagine a time she would feel like that, and she is adamant not to be the reason for his death. Where will fate lead them?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Growing up non-psychic in a household of female clairvoyants has been tough for Blue. Did we mention that her mum and aunts have predicted she’ll kill her true love with a kiss? In the first book of Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle series, Blue meets the Raven Boys: legend-obsessed Gansey, bad boy Ronan, rumpled sweetheart Adam and mysterious Noah. We loved this fantastical YA adventure, which entwines dark magic, ancient Welsh treasure and a doomed romance.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
By grounding this new series in what might be called everyday weirdness a rich teenager's obsession with legend and glory, a shabby household of female psychics with a pay-per-minute hotline Stiefvater (The Scorpio Races) avoids the burden of building a seamless alternate world, instead saturating our reality with magic. Haunting, distinctly individual characters are at the forefront: Blue, an outsider in her own home because she isn't clairvoyant; Gansey and his posse of misfits, who lack any sense of home and seek meaning elsewhere; and Barrington Whelk, a Latin teacher with a secret. Gansey and his fellow "raven boys" attend exclusive Aglionby Academy itself out of place in working-class Henrietta, Va. and Blue's goal is to avoid them at any cost. She can't, of course, but Stiefvater doesn't rush this inevitability. Hopes, fears, quirks, and forebodings gather gradually, coalescing as living portraits. It's a tour de force of characterization, and while there is no lack of event or mystery, it is the way Stiefvater's people live in the reader's imagination that makes this such a memorable read. Ages 13 up.
Customer Reviews
Incredible
The story of the Raven boys is unlike any other I've ever read before. You won't regret reading.