Maggie Stiefvater

The Raven King

Nala

"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."

High Fidelity

And really, was it paranoia when you weren’t necessarily wrong?

Caution. That was what it was called when people really were out to kill you. He’d learned caution, not paranoia.

True love is a construct. Was Artemus your true love? Is Mr. Gray? Does that make the other one not true? Is there just one shot and then it’s over?”

Talelle

Depending on where you began the story, it was about me being the most jealous I have ever been in my entire life.

seriously i dont want to finish this series noooo please i want to cry i already want to reread the whole thing

everything about this book was so perfect especially the epilogue  and I need moreeee im definitely reading call down the hawk

matti horckmans

Depending on where you began the story, it was about me being the most jealous I have ever been in my entire life.

seriously i dont want to finish this series noooo please i want to cry i already want to reread the whole thing

everything about this book was so perfect especially the epilogue  and I need moreeee im definitely reading call down the hawk

eden !

Wow. So yeah, I do not mean that in a good way. Damn this book was a disappointment. All the way through I just wanted to finish it and when I did I did a happy dance that I finally finished this damn series. I do not know if there is another book coming out and I probably won't read it. I just feel like, at this point, they dragged out the story as much as they can and I am officially done. The ending was shit, some parts were confusing as hell, and half the time, I felt like Ronan and Adam's relationship became forced. So there you go. Bad book. Only the first book was better in the series and that's it.

Noahh...*cries* 
I love them sm it hurts!!!

bel 

my heart is so full of love for these characters, i’m going to miss them so much

Faye

i don't think i'll ever be over this series and i alread want to reread it, i love these characters so much.

Nova

Christine

dia ☆

maggie por qué no me dejas de arruinar la vida

akynn 

4.5 stars

goddamn miss stiefvater knows how to conclude a series.

britt

this series was absolutely fucking amazing. i adore all of these characters and cannot wait to read the dreamer’s trilogy. 

i did struggle through the first half of this book but methinks that was a reflection of my life situation. 

while i was full on expecting gansey to die die, i’m very happy that he didn’t. and i fucking love noah and feel so sad for him because he has to relive this over and over again. i loved all of these characters so much and i will be so sad after reading the next books because then what? i will exist in a void that’s what.

** spoiler alert **
           i will be brief. 

i love love maggie's writing style and the way she has prose slipped into her writing. she's also really good at descriptions and i'm a little obsessed with the repetitions throughout this book, the creative writing student in me wants to analyse her writing so bad.. 

anyways, i had a lot of thoughts while reading this book: 
1. Neeve was the real villain of this book. she brought the demon to life only to get killed by it, which is pretty funny if you think about it.
2. (wrote this in my notes while reading) if anything bad happens to gansey i'll kill someone then myself jk kinda please i'll never read another book again if he dies 
3. the emotions n description in the part where he sacrifices himself was really well-written tbh except i still don't quite understand how cabeswater managed to bring him back to life? so happy he's not dead though my sweet gansey glendower wants what you have! 
4. why couldn't cabeswater save persephone too why why why
5. i am still extremely confused about what exactly noah did towards the end? he was the one who made gansey live again after he died the first time??? i really don't get it 
6. and if glendower was dead all along, did noah know? understandable if gwenllian didn't know because she was in a whole different place but surely artemus would have known so why didn't that freak mention anything..
7. not blue finding out she's a tree light, dreaming about it for one night and then never talking about it again 
8. henry is obsessed with gansey understandably so
9. bluesey so cute 
10. seeing adam happy for a change is very nice.. hate that the first time they're addressed as boyfriends it came from the mouth of robert parrish but we move
11. ronan.. my sweet angel sunshine ronan who is secretly a softie and creates forests and ravens and a weird horse/girl hybrid with his dreams.. you are so cool and perfect and i am obsessed with you. 

this was a good book, but it raised questions for me that didn't quite get answered at the end. some parts felt more like it was setting up for another book instead of wrapping up a series? a lot of new information was introduced (seondeok, the louimineers dudes) that didn't seem too neccessary to the story? like, they could have been mentioned briefly i just didn't see the point in having whole chapters dedicated to them. initially i thought she was setting stuff up for the dreamer trilogy and i kind of expected to see them in the fairy market but they weren't there so i'm confused about their role in this book other than being the cause of mr. gray having his 𝖎 𝖜𝖎𝖑𝖑 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖙𝖊𝖈𝖙 𝖞𝖔𝖚 moment to save maura/blue. other than that i really enjoyed this series tbh, the plot and characters were so interesting and had me hooked from the start. love u forever ronanseybluedam

chloe rae

Man. What a SERIES. I have read the BEST SERIES this year, my goodness!
This was a marvelous ending. Honestly, I can't tell if I'm a little bummed it didn't end how I imagined OR if I love it even more BECAUSE it didn't end how I imagined. I'm unsure. All I know is I'm obsessed with these characters; truly in-love with every single one of them. Thank God we get more books in this world or I'd truly be even more heartbroken than I already am.
So so glad I picked this up. A new favorite for sure!

Mel 

** spoiler alert **
           I feel kind of disappointed by this book even though it wasn’t a bad book at all. Book 3 was just way better in my opinion. 
Anyway, I’m really glad that Gansey didn’t die!

Ana Belén

i cried so much at the end 😭 my family <3

Catarina Lopes 

My brain chemistry has been changed. I love them. I will never recover from this series, I loved it. Had it's flaws, (quite a few), but my God to the characters make up for everything. I LOVE THEM 😭

catalina

me va a dejar un vacío por mucho tiempo. voy a extrañar por siempre a mis chicos cuervos.

I can't choose the right words to describe what I'm feeling when I finished the series.

Will probably edit this review. I just need to collect my thoughts.

Syahla Aurel

He was a king. This was the year he was going to die.

I really like how the story finished; each of the characters grew and strengthened each other along the way till they found their own path, with Blue, Gansey, and their latest recruit, Henry, go for a road trip, Adam attends college, and Ronan settles in the Barns. 
However, I believe there is still something lacking in the finale; Noah's narrative is a vital foundation that is intimately tied to the Gansey story, as it lead him to meet Blue, Ronan, and Adam, yet Noah was not mentioned at all in the epilogue :(. Also, Blue's father, Artemus, is a tree(?), which was strange for some reason, especially since it appeared out of nowhere.

debre

this was so beautifully written it made my heart ache in a good way?? idk, only maggie could do it.
i'm gonna miss blue sargent and her raven boys so much.

Wow. What an ending to such a good series?? Like i've enjoyed this whole series ngl and this conclusion has been amazing. I feel like the way i reacted and behaved and cried and smiled and giggled and cringed is how I behaved and reacted and cried and smiled and giggled and cringed when I read the first book, which I just find so rewarding it's so adorable. 

But I felt like the book was a bit too long to actually deserve that many pages, and I did find myself skipping and skimming because I got bored.

I CAN'T LIE IT WAS A BIT ANTI CLIMATIC. And I found myself so devestated and kind of disappointed but I think I expected it to end like that, but didn't want to expect it.

Gansey my beloved, if I ever got married, he would have the exact same attitude as you. He's so amazing and kind and thoughtful and levelheaded and ambitious and just everything.

Ronan, mr broody, mr sarcy, mr foul mouth, sometimes I cry knowing how much pain you go through on a daily basis, and how much you actually care about your friends and that.

Oh Adam, how I cried for you when we found out about your father. Your matureness at the end of this book? Excuse me?? Wow. I found that so beautiful I cried. Like damn your father is lucky asf.

NOAH MY BABY YOU ABSOLUTE BEAUTY. YOU'RE ACTUALLY ONE OF MY FAVOURITES. SELFLESS, KIND, EVERYTHINGAS A GHOST AND AS A PERSON. you didnt deserve to die.

Blue lilly, lily blue, you're family life<<< I'm not going to lie I do not like how Maura just dropped you in the previous book, but I love how you became friends with every raven boy to exist. 

surtified™

Wow. What an ending to such a good series?? Like i've enjoyed this whole series ngl and this conclusion has been amazing. I feel like the way i reacted and behaved and cried and smiled and giggled and cringed is how I behaved and reacted and cried and smiled and giggled and cringed when I read the first book, which I just find so rewarding it's so adorable. 

I cried to much. Like way too much. 

But I felt like the book was a bit too long to actually deserve that many pages, and I did find myself skipping and skimming because I got bored.

I CAN'T LIE IT WAS A BIT ANTI CLIMATIC. And I found myself so devestated and kind of disappointed but I think I expected it to end like that, but didn't want to expect it.

Gansey my beloved, if I ever got married, he would have the exact same attitude as you. He's so amazing and kind and thoughtful and levelheaded and ambitious and just everything.

Ronan, mr broody, mr sarcy, mr foul mouth, sometimes I cry knowing how much pain you go through on a daily basis, and how much you actually care about your friends and that.

Oh Adam, how I cried for you when we found out about your father. Your matureness at the end of this book? Excuse me?? Wow. I found that so beautiful I cried. Like damn your father is lucky asf.

NOAH MY BABY YOU ABSOLUTE BEAUTY. YOU'RE ACTUALLY ONE OF MY FAVOURITES. SELFLESS, KIND, EVERYTHINGAS A GHOST AND AS A PERSON. you didnt deserve to die.

Blue lilly, lily blue, you're family life<<< I'm not going to lie I do not like how Maura just dropped you in the previous book, but I love how you became friends with every raven boy to exist. 

THE VANCOUVER BOYS I LOVE YOU

RobboBee>>

fiona

i didn’t like this one as much but at least ronan and adam stay being the best part of this series. and the friendship between all 4 of them 😩✌️

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