The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle #1) by Maggie Stiefvater
"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."
“My words are unerring tools of destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
I kept waiting for this book to be more queer than it was. There were certainly several male relationships that could be read as queer, but they don’t acknowledge this even though the story rotates whose perspective it’s told through. I’m assuming since I’ve seen these books highly recommended and rotate around on the queer book lists that it will eventually get there? The plot felt so slow. And I’m only really a fan of Blue, character-wise at this point.
Genre: ya, contemporary, fantasy
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Content Warnings: suicidal ideation, past attempted suicide, domestic violence, violence, guns, death
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