It’s actually about boys at a private school called Aglionby. But today is not that day and the next three thousand days aren’t looking good either). (Someday, I will manage to write a book review that doesn’t include eighty paragraphs about ME ME ME before I talk about the actual book. I had this sense that The Raven Boys would be all fairies in the woods (that’s pretty much the worst description I can give a book – I hate books about fairies, especially when it’s about their world entirely and no real world involved), and.

I’m certain I never would have read it if Princess Nebraska hadn’t raved about it. (Although The Scorpio Races took me forEEEEEEVER to get into).Īpparently, though, I am not a quick learner because I keep putting off reading her books for ages and then I finnnnnnnally give in and love it. I’ve also discovered that Maggie Stiefvater is a master of writing books that sound completely unappealing to me and then I end up really enjoying them. I’m very bad at phonetic reading of names, but I do know how to pronounce “Maggie”). I hope it’s obvious I’m talking about her last name. But as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.Back in 2011, when I went to BEA, I attended a Scholastic event where Maggie Stiefvater was a guest and ever since then, I’ve found way too much delight in saying her name (now that I know I can say it correctly. She doesn't believe in true love, and never thought this would be a problem. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents the privilege around him Ronan, the fierce soul whose emotions range from anger to despair and Noah, the taciturn watcher 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.

Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can't entirely explain. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Blue never sees them-until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her.His name is Gansey, a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school.

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The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater