The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Will
Patton (Narrator)
(The Raven Cycle #1)
Audiobook,
Unabridged,
Published
September 18th, 2012 by Scholastic Audio
My
rating: 2 out of 5 stars
Every
year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead
walk past. Blue never sees them--until this year, when a boy emerges from the
dark and speaks to her.
His
name is Gansey, a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has
a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only
mean trouble.
But
Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can't entirely explain. He is on a quest
that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who
resents the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul whose emotions range
from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher who notices many things
but says very little.
For
as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true
love to die. 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…
This
book just wasn’t for me. I listened to it on audiobook and I was ready to give it up at Chapter
12, it was so boring. The first third of the book was introducing the characters
and pretty much their daily routine, not much of a plot. It wasn't until Blue meet
up with the Raven Boys did the plot start and the story really began.
In
the synopsis, your lead to believe that there will be a romance between Blue and
Gansey, that is not the case. The story basically revolves around Gansey’s obsession
with finding the ley line to wake up a Welsh king, to grant the one who wakes
him a wish.
“The way Gansey saw it was this: if you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
At
the moment, I'm not rushing out to read more of this series, but I won't say
that I'll never return to it, I just have other books I rather read instead.
Happy
Reading -J
0 comments:
Post a Comment
Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment, I love reading them. I will try to reply to your comment and visit you as well to spread the love. :)
Your comment is awaiting moderation. Have a wonderful day - Jovita