Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Publication Date: April 26th 2016
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
Part of a Series?: Yes, Book 4 on 4 of the Raven Cycle
I Got A Copy Through: Scholastic India (THANK YOU!)
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Blurb Description: The fourth and final installment in the spellbinding series from the irrepressible, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater.
All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death. She doesn't believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.
There's always something nostalgic about coming to the end of
a series. You've been waiting years and years for this moment, and when you
flip past the last page, you honestly can't believe it's over.
This is currently me, with The Raven King. It's
so strange to think that a series I've followed for years is OVER, because it
certainly doesn't feel like it. I read the last 200 pages in one fell
swoop, and it just got over SO FAST, you know? I keep hoping that someone will
pop up from behind a bush and say "It's not over! WE GOT YOU GOOD!
Here's the next 10 books."
I'll move out of my slightly delusional, slightly denial filled phase
and tell you what I thought about the book:
MY THOUGHTS:
1. I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS
POSSIBLE FOR MAGGIE STIEFVATER'S WRITING TO GET BETTER BUT HOLY COW IT DID.
From the very first page, she gorgeously drew us back into her
magically realistic world and I WAS ABSOLUTELY ENTRANCED.
2. My main problem with book three, Blue Lily, Lily Blue was the PACE.
It was just so slow with so many unnecessary tiny plot developments and I was
scared that The Raven King would
be the same. IT WASN'T. I was sucked in from the first page
with some delicious writing and plot lines and just the anticipation
that THIS WAS THE BOOK WE'D FIND GLENDOWER.
3. I officially have a new
favourite couple in YA Literature that take me breath away every time they
interact or kiss or hang out. SPOILER:
"Ronan wrenched his tie loose. "You working after school?""With a dreamer."He held Ronan's gaze over his locker door. School had improved....Adam smiled cheerily. Roman would start wars and burn cities over that true smile, elastic and amiable. "
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"His feelings for Adam were an oil spill; he'd let them overflow and now there wasn't a damn place in the ocean that wouldn't catch fire if he dropped a match."
LIKE I SAID. I FELL, AND I FELL
HARD. Please tell me this means that Adam will be there in the Ronan
Trilogy because NEED. HELLO? I will combust into a puddle of happiness and
feels to have an entire TRILOGY about these two.
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4. The ending was very... Abrupt. There was a particular
revelation about one of the Raven Boys that was SHOCKING but
other than that, I found it sub-par and lacking the greatness I
expected from it. Still, with Adam and Ronan and my heart soaring, I honestly
didn't care much for this aspect of the ending.
5. I don't know WHAT I felt about certain characters
including the Laumoniers, Piper Greenmantle and ESPECIALLY Henry
Cheng. I sort of begrudged them a space in the story, but I did t
care for them at all.
Let's be honest, I'm TRASH for this series. It's one
of the best out there, in my opinion BECAUSE it's so different. I
cannot recommend it enough because when you fall, you will FALL HARD AND THERE
WILL BE NO COMING BACK AND, really, ISN'T THAT WHAT YOU WANT ANYWAY?
The Raven Cycle is an addicting, magical, lush, spellbinding quartet that will leave you
gasping for more. 5 stars.
New York Times bestselling author of The Shiver Trilogy, The Raven Cycle, and The Scorpio Races. Artist. Driver of things with wheels. Avid reader.All of Maggie Stiefvater's life decisions have been based around her inability to be gainfully employed. Talking to yourself, staring into space, and coming to work in your pajamas are frowned upon when you're a waitress, calligraphy instructor, or technical editor (all of which she's tried), but are highly prized traits in novelists and artists. She's made her living as one or the other since she was 22. She now lives an eccentric life in the middle of nowhere, Virginia with her charmingly straight-laced husband, two kids, two neurotic dogs, and a 1973 Camaro named Loki.
HAVE YOU READ THIS SERIES?
Are you AS in love with Adam and Ronan as I am? What is your favourite part of this series?
ARE YOU EXCITED FOR THE RONAN TRILOGY?
I can't wait to hear your thoughts!
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