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The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)

Maggie Stiefvater

Start date: May 12, 2013

Finish date: May 31, 2013

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Sep 19, 2012 Marla rated it liked it

Shelves: young-adult, mystery, paranormal, audiobook, overrated, award-winner, catholic, series, made-me-laugh, fantasy

3.5 stars. I listened to this book, because I was wary of the mixed reviews and I enjoyed it. It reminded me of Beautiful Creatures but with better writing, more interesting characters and no cryptic poetry/song lyrics. I didn't love the characters, but they were interesting, the prophesies and predictions were intriguing and the boys were such good friends. So I liked it in spite of the strange repetitive language, thoughtless and condescending speech, Gansey's ranting about the King and Blue's ...more

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Nov 06, 2016 Anjillica Navarro rated it liked it · review of another edition

this is definitely a 3.5 almost a 4 star book. the only reason it isn't a 4 star is because the ending was way too confusing. it was like the author wanted to throw one more twist in but wasn't sure how to develope it just yet. maybe she did or didn't I don't know. all I can say is I'm glad I don't have to wait a year for the next.

I loved the Raven boys though. Ronan was the bad boy every girl dreams about. Tough but soft hearted. I want to know more about his back story. Noah...oh man Noah. I ...more

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