The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1) in Vampires, Weres and Fae!

Apr 08, 2015 Cassandra rated it really liked it

Shelves: young-adult, fantasy, magic, blog-widget, ghosts, paranormal, dark-content, want-for-my-classroom, audiobook, second-sight

My Thoughts - 4 out of 5 Unicorns - I really liked it!!!

The cover is interesting and unusual all at the same time.

I listened to the audiobook in the car with my son to and from school. I think I got this audiobook through the SYNC program either last year or the year before, but I didn’t really start listening to audiobooks until this year.

I think when my son and I started listening to this book we were not sure we were going to like this book. The narrator was new to us, and it always seems to ...more

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Feb 25, 2016 Melindeeloo rated it really liked it

Shelves: ya-na-but-still-aok

Probably more like 3.5 stars because the beginning is very slow. I did like this, I liked the Blue a lot and her relationship with her oddball all female family of psychics is good. I also like how she handles the raven boys a meshes into their dysfunctional little group. The story is more of a meandering one but it gets a boost from that twist near the end.

I started this in audio but didn't care for the narration. The narrator combined with the initial pacing issues -and the fact that some of t ...more

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Mar 06, 2016 Brittany rated it it was ok

Shelves: young-adult, fantasy, audiobook

That was... disappointing. The book is extremely slow paced. It took about 7 hours of listening or to what I believe was chapter 28 to become worth listening to. That's a long time to have to wait for a story to start. It was predictable, repetitive and not very well narrated or written.
I found the main characters rather boring and one dimensional.
It still gets 2 stars as it had a couple of redeeming qualities. I liked the idea of the psychics however their characters were rather cookie cutter ...more

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