The Raven Boys
Reviews
ADAMMMM😫😫😫😫😫😫😫
for years i delayed starting this series because i JUST KNOW it will be my favorite. i was right. i just finished the first of the four books and im already nostalgic about it
alexa, play Crave by paramore
where do i begin
i need this entire series injected in my veins i think
a ha ha
It has come upon me that the two times I’ve read this novel both have been times of emotional hardship. And in both moments I’ve cried for these characters' sake.
I don’t think I’ve ever read something that’s helped me feel so seen— even if I am older than I was when I started.
these characters are so human, they are so universal you can’t help but see yourself through them. Their hands reach out the pages and brush your shoulder for comfort.
I think narration is a big part of that. Through the third person, Stiefvater focuses on each character closely and ties the story together delivering an honest and beautiful path into their heart, emotions, and how they see the world and each other.
I think the constant theme that tore my heart to pieces begins along the lines of “I am more than.”
I am more than my wealth.
I am more than my status.
I am more than my grief.
I am more than death.
The feeling of being unable to prove something and the ambition to overcome it as someone who is so young but has experienced the world enough to age rapidly is inexplicable.
And the boys portray that perfectly.
4.5 ⭐️ i've never felt like that for any book probably. the beginning was quite slow if i have to be honest but that doesn't mean that it was boring. i was amazed by the world that maggie stiefvater has created, so similar to ours but still so different. probably the thing that i loved the most about the book was how the chapters were written, at the end of any of them there were something that just made me keep going reading. i wanted to get through this book as fast as i could because i wanted to see blue adam gansey ronan and noah as a friend group and when it happened my soul was blessed. my love for these characters grew up in me so fast and i loved them since the first time i've read their name. i love the raven boys and i love blue !!
I loved this book. Everything, from the writing style and the plot to the characters captivated me the first time in so long. This book became definitely one of my favourites. Will be definitely reading the whole series.
why should i go out and make friends when i can wait for someone to imply that i’m a prostitute while getting my number for a friend and then join their hunt for a dead welsh king???????
Quite intriguing
Quite intriguing
4.25 I'm only alive so I can find out what “I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.” means
This book is everything!! I loved it so much!! And that ending …OMG!! Soo good!! These characters have a special place in my heart! I love them! This book made me smile and laugh a lot! It was so fun to read ugh!!:)
fun read bit slow at the start. I love the character dynamics.
yes, i love it! i have found my new personality!!! Adam Parrish being the best character >>>>>>
that’s my family !!!!
Reread 💜
Very good book. This isn't five stars, though, because I've been trying really hard not to hand out five stars indiscriminately. So, this is very,very differing from Lament and Shiver, if anyone read those. I don't know if it's similar to The Scorpio Races, cuz I haven't read that yet (but I will!) So, this is book is about a girl named Blue, who is not-a-psychic. And Gansey, who is not-dead. And Ronan, who is not-quite-sane. and Adam, who is not-rich. and Noah, who is (view spoiler)[not-alive (hide spoiler)]. It's all very interesting. we really got into ley lines and some previously untouched mythology. And when i say 'untouched mythology' I mean I've never read or heard of a book with this particular mythology in it. yep, pretty awesome.
I read this for the first time when I was like 10 and had no capacity for writing that didn’t explicitly spell out exactly what was going on and reread it at age 19 because Kalena made a Marauders comparison…..I get it now…..
this isn’t by any means a perfect book but it’s so dear to my heart, i just fall a little more in love with it every time i reread it
slightly in love w adam rn
LOVE IT
my boys (blue included)
Highlights
When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.
April days in Henrietta were quite often fair, tender things, coaxing sleeping trees to bud and love-mad ladybirds to beat against windowpanes. But not tonight.
Adam felt the familiar pang. Not jealousy, just wanting. One day, he’d have enough money to have a place like this. A place that looked on the outside like Adam looked on the inside.
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“Fate,” Blue replied, glowering at her mother, “is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.”
The key, Gansey found, was that you had to believe that they existed; you had to realize they were part of something bigger. Some secrets only gave themselves up to those who’d proven themselves worthy.
The way Gansey saw it was this: If you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look.
“Ask me if I found something,” Gansey said. Sighing, Ronan twitched the recorder toward Gansey. “Did you find anything?” Ronan didn’t sound very interested, but that was part of the Ronan Lynch brand. It was impossible to tell how deep his disinterest truly was.
Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival.
ADAM 🥲🥲
Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.”
They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.
Jednom kad je Artur saznao da je gral stvaran,kako je mogao da ga ne traži?
Gansey always thought that, after dark, it felt like anything could happen.
This slumbering figure was dizzyingy important to Gansey in a way that he couldn't begin to understand or shape. It was something more, something bigger, something that mattered. Something without a price tag. Something earned.
“It wasn't that he'd expected to see the dead. All of the sources said that church watchers had to possess "the second sight" and Gansey barely possessed first sight before he put his contacts in.”
Pg 19 😂
“Mr. Gansey, I appreciate your concern for your frie —” “Brother,” Gansey interrupted
“I don’t have a brother, ma’am,” Adam replied. But Blue saw his eyes dart to Gansey
drawn by a desperate but nebulous need to be useful to the world, to make sure his life meant something
even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present.
I would take all of you anywhere with me.
Today is the day I stop listening to the future and start living it instead.
The only things was, she didn't really want to see the future. What she wanted was to see something no one else could see or would see, and maybe that was asking for more magic than was in the world.
"I always wanted an eccentric daughter. I just never realized how well my evil plans were working."
I am only my money. It's all anyone sees...
A wrinkle formed between Adam's eyebrows as he looked away. Not at the double-wides in the foreground, but past them, to the flat, endless field with its tufts of dry grass. So many things survived here without really living.