Audio Review: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
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.
Blue is the daughter of a psychic and, although she has no power of her own, she is able to amplify the power of others. Gansey is an Aglionby student (a local private school for rich children whose logo is a raven) who is obsessed with magic and ley lines and has traveled all over the world in search of someone.
A couple other Aglionby boys have helped Gansey on his search and when something strange happens to Gansey on St. Patricks day(?) one of them suggests he goes see a local psychic to see what it all means.
From the moment that Blue and Gansey meet it is a rollercoaster of discoveries and shocks that left me wanting more every time I had to stop listening. I liked all the characters from Gansey to Ronan to Adam to Blue, Persephone, Mora, and Calla. All that happens in this book is intricate and connected and I feel transported to this fantasy world that the author has created.
That ending has me intrigued as to how Ronan was able to get Chainsaw and I can't wait to read the next book in this series.
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