The Raven Boys
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Maggie Stiefvater
An all-new series from the masterful, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater! "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." 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:
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Author
Maggie Stiefvater
Pages
409
Publisher
Turtleback
Published Date
2013-07-30
ISBN
0606320288 9780606320283
Ratings
Google: 5
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"I know lots of people love this series which is why I decided to read it. Unfortunately, this wasn’t my cup of tea. I thought the clairvoyant parts were interesting but wished there was more confirmation regarding Blue aka Jane’s abilities since she seems to have more than what she and her family state she has. Other than that it wasn’t keeping me interested. I was going to DNF, but since it was a book club pick, I tried to stick it out. It got better just after 50-75% in. I don’t think I will finish the series."
"This one is more academia adjacent; they attend a private prep school but have intense private academic interests"
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Mary-Grace Rees
"Whoo boy this is a weird one to rate. For starters, this is not my first attempt at reading it. Twice I couldn't get into it, once before I even knew that it's popular (both times after reading the Scorpio Races, one of my all time faves, though). (In this book's defense I used to finish maybe 1/6th of the books I started. Haha remember when I had standards for what I did with my time?) I thought it must not be popular because I thought the cover was ugly. (I still stand by that btw, fricking blue boyband). Anyway, this time I was gonna give it a shot, and this time I had Expectations, and my expectations only grew as I got into the book. The atmosphere is really great and there's sooo many characters I like (sooo many) and I'm like yes this is gonna be fun. But the fun took so long to come and in it's place there was a bunch of predictable, sometimes even tedious/irritating sludge and I'm like this book is gonna be three stars, isn't it? How disappointing. But then, despite myself, the last 20% was exciting and the sides of my mouth are doing a bit of a smiley thing, and my most terrible fears about how certain things were gonna come out did not come to fruition. So basically this is a good book. But it can lose some hype. <br/><br/>The hype is what did me in. <br/><br/>With all the components that are literally already in this, I should've adored it. But I only like it, and that's your fault. <br/><br/>Lol.<br/><br/>I don't know who I'm addressing with that.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Oh also the audiobook was great and a wonderful decision."
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Emily