Maggie Stiefvater

The Raven King

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

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.

graelihn

3 things I am very happy about (in no particular order):

- Finally being able to go through trc related tags without worries of spoiling myself. 
- 3 is DEFINITELY always better ;)
- This action packed and emotional af roller coaster ride from the beginning to end of this wonderful series. I totally wish I had read them sooner (especially after finding out Maggie Stiefvater was in town a few months ago for her book tour - alas). Looking back from the first book to the last, my favorite thing about the series was watching the characters grow. No just individual growth but also growing as a group. I'm a sucker for found family themes so this was obviously a treat for me. Seeing the impact that these characters had on each other and how they all helped each other become who they are in the end was honestly lovely. FOUND FAMILY FTW! 

I am now definitely a fan of Maggie Stiefvater's writing and I would totally recommend this series to others. Better late than never!

** 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 😩✌️

Sparrow Hall

This series has been a journey, and I find it absolutely fitting that this book had me yelling and screaming for a majority of the time. It was truly a book that I will never forget (view spoiler)[ and not just because Blue is part tree  (hide spoiler)].

Nessa Luna

At the beginning of this year, a friend of mine recommended me to read The Raven Cycle. She lend out her books to me, and after it got released, also gave me the fourth and final book The Raven King to read. I read the first three books and rather enjoyed them, but when I picked up that fourth book, I really couldn't get myself to read past the first chapter. And so I put it down, and picked it up again, and put it down again. This month, I finally decided to pick up this fourth book and just finish it.

The Raven King is the conclusion to the story of Blue Sargent, Richard Gansey, Adam Parrish, Noah Czerny, and Ronan Lynch. Will they finally find Glendower? Will Gansey really die? All of this, we find out in this final installment of the Raven Cycle.

Let me tell you, it took  me so long to finish this book. I think I started it at the beginning of the month, and I honestly just kept putting it down and picking up other books as well. It's not that I didn't like the book, in fact I rather enjoyed it, but the previous three had been a bit too  much I guess. For some reason this story refused to stick in my mind and I was confused so many times while reading all four books.

I mean I got the general storyline, but honestly there was just too much going on at the same time, and I really didn't know how it was all supposed to be connected. The Raven King did connect these stories together in the end, and I am grateful for that, but I don't know - as much as I loved the characters and the magic-y feel of these books, I just didn't love them enough. 

Like I said, I loved the characters in this series; Blue, Gansey, Adam, Ronan, Noah, the women of 300 Fox Way; all of the characters were great. There was a little romance in this series, but it wasn't overpowering at all. (view spoiler)[What I did found kind of strange though was the sudden romance between Adam and Ronan; I never had expected them to end up together, because I never saw them as potential lovers you know? So them kissing in this book kind of felt - to me - like it came out of nowhere (hide spoiler)] As for the baddies, every book seemed to have a new bad guy and that annoyed me a bit. This book still had Piper Greenmantle, from the previous book, but then there were some new baddies added and I honestly don't get why they were there. Why not keep Piper as the main baddie? Also I don't really get why Henry was suddenly added to the gang, why not add him before instead of just last-minute throwing him into the story?

It was still great writing, and that is something I really enjoyed about these books. I am honestly going to try to read more of Maggie's books, though I am not sure which book I am picking up next. I did enjoy this series, but I don't think it'll become one of my favourite series of all time. I am glad I read them, so I now know what the hype is about, so I'd like to thank Lynn for not only recommending the books to me, but actually lending out her entire series to me. I am so sorry I've kept these books for so long!
 
  My opinion in one gif:

Julia

This was incredible. What am I supposed to do with myself.

Courtney

This series couldn't have had a more perfect epilogue.

enya

oh my pynch❤️❤️❤️ In true trc fashion the plot was so ridiculous at some point i just started skipping chapters like you rlly think i care abt what non- adam ronan ganseys were on abt??? actually i did like henry tho hes 4th fav rn… blue and her family still make me snooze and dont even make me start on like gwenlillian or piper or blues tree hybrid dad i cant NOBODY CARES!!!

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