The Raven King – Maggie Stiefvater

Synopsis

The fourth and final installment in the spellbinding series from the irrepressible, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater.

All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love’s death. She doesn’t believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

My Thoughts

There are very few occasions in which I finish something, and then want to start it all over again. Not because it’s over and I want more. More because I want to experience the adventure over again, see things I may have missed, take my time, and see things I know anew. The Raven Cycle is just such a series that inflicts these feelings in me.

Everything about this book is restless and urgent. It crawls under your skin and settles. You have to keep going, keep moving, continue forward. Forward means something different to everyone, and the inherent okayness of that is brilliant.

What I love most is that the ending is open, and mildly bitter-sweet. Nothing is wrapped up in a pretty bow and presented on a silver platter. No, instead there are questions and queries. I love the questions and queries. But most of, it’s magic.

Magic is woven into the fabric of reality – of everyone’s lives – so intricately, I can’t remember reading about a time where there wasn’t any magic in Henrietta. It simply is. And it doesn’t have to be a secret!

I can certainly see why this series has gained the following and reputation it has. It can affect anyone in so many different ways. I know it’s definitely affected me.

And the best part? Through everything these teens have been through, the most important thing is their friendship, and how in love they all are with each other. It’s inevitable. It’s just how things were supposed to be. It’s perfect.

~ by Aubrey Smith on December 7, 2017.