The Book Depository The Raven King (the Raven Cycle, Book 4) by Maggie Stiefvater
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Description: The Raven King (the Raven Cycle, Book 4) : Paperback : Scholastic US : 9780545424998 : 0545424992 : 05 Mar 2018 : All her life, Blue has been warned she will cause the death of her true love. She doesn't believe in true love and never thought it would be a problem. But as she becomes caught up in the strange world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore in the finale to this spellbinding series from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stiefvater.
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Product ID: 9780545424998
MPN: 0545424992
GTIN: 9780545424998
Author: C. Stewart
Rating: 5
Review: Well, this has been a ride and a half. My favourite of the four books. A really satisfying and beautiful read. It took me longer than usual to read, mainly because I had to keep putting the book down to think about other things as I was so staggered by certain moments (chapters 18,19 and 20 left me reeling for around four hours). There's so much to appreciate here about the writing. Stiefvarter does things with POV changes that are so good and effortless that you don't realise it's being done until you're right in the middle of a POV. I saw it with Greenmantle in BL,LB, and it was even more pronounced in this book when we saw something from Piper's POV. It's not just a dialogue difference, but a perspective change and a different way of thinking. It's great that you can read a section and know who the character is without seeing the names, because they are that distinctive. POSSIBLE SPOILERS HERE NOW ........ I loved the ships in this. I loved the kisses. I highlighted the frick out of everything Ronan, partly because he's my favourite character, but also MY WORD the kisses he shares are so beautiful and golden. So much love, that's all he wanted. I was aghast at all his relationships, from Gansey, to Declan, Matthew, Noah, Blue and of course Adam, I was really rooting for everything to go right for him. There was a slight niggle about the ease to which Henry slotted in, but that did dispel when the toga party happened and we saw Blue's opinion of him change. And he was very necessary to the gang at the end, very necessary, as the one on the outside. Noah ... Noah ... Noah ... Noah. My beautiful boy. I'm weeping for you. Time is a circle so maybe, maybe, maybe we can have more stories. This is rather incomprehensible. To say I loved the book would be a gross understatement. My ships came in - I'm hugely happy. Let me leave you with a Gansey quote, which sums everything up: 'He was a book, and he was holding his final pages, and he wanted to get to the end to find out how it went, and he didn't want it to be over.' I think I can breathe again, now.
Author: jennifer robson
Rating: 2
Review: I really wish this story was less about the rich twats and more about Blue and her incredible interesting family.
