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The Raven Boys

Book 1 of The Raven Cycle

  • 455 pages · about 8 hours
  • First published 2012
  • 23 editions

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1 About this book

Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger. When she meets Gansey, one of the boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own--and that together their talents are a dangerous mix. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys.

Known as "raven boys", they can only mean trouble. 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.

Good for readers who want: fantasy, a love story, magic, and a long read.

  • Magic
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Children's fiction
  • Extrasensory perception
  • Occultism
  • Paranormal fiction
  • Private schools

2 About Maggie Stiefvater

Born 1981

Margaret Stiefvater ( STEE-vah-tər; née Heidi Hummel; born November 18, 1981) is an American author who is best known for her young adult fantasy series The Wolves of Mercy Falls and The Raven Cycle.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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