Housewife Blues and Chihuahua Stories

Book Info
Kindle Edition, 468 pages
Published September 18th 2012 by Scholastic Press
original title The Raven Boys
ASIN B0096T5P7O
edition language English
series The Raven Cycle #1
characters Blue Sargent, Richard "Dick" Campbell Gansey, Adam Parrish, Ronan Lynch
setting Henrietta, Virginia (United States)
literary awards Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel (2012), YALSA Teens' Top Ten (2013), Milwaukee County Teen Book Award Nominee (2014), Carnegie Medal in Literature Nominee (2014), Abraham Lincoln Award Nominee (2015) ...more
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Source:Kindle version borrowed from Public Library

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BOOK SYNOPSIS

“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.

His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is 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 has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, 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 never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and the nature of love lead us to a place we’ve never been before.

My Thoughts

Prior to reading this had a few preconceived notions of what it would be like from the book synopsis but once got involved it became apparent to me that there was so much more going on than what was hinted at.

Filled with the mystical that have come to expect when reading something penned by the author the use of word play, magical phenomena, mystery, suspense and forbidden romance keeps one engaged well past when the lights should go out to go to sleep!

In turn this is fascinating, spooky, weird, intense and also filled with a wonderful sense of adventure that draws one into the story and allows one to feel a part of the action right along with the "Raven boys" and Blue.

Different than what I expected, very gratifyingly so as happy to have finally started this series.

[Kindle version borrowed from Public Library]