Suzi!!!'s Reviews > The Raven Boys

4.25 stars but also 10 stars because this book owns my heart, and I know I’ve said that about at least ten books in the last ten minutes, but I mean it this time.

I LOVE THE RAVEN BOYS WITH ALL MY HEART. I SAID IT.

I can’t remember the last time I finished a book and felt this ecstatic. I’m so happy and I don’t know what to do with it.

This book is so weird and strange and I’m so furious at everyone for not making me read it sooner. Like, now that I’ve read this book, everything else in the world is actual trash. That episode of Wizards I’d Waverly Place I’m watching right now? Trash. The black nail polish I’ve been obsessed with lately? Garbage. Flippin Pringles and Skittles and jelly beans and cake? Absolute rubbish.

The Raven Boys made me feel so many feelings and I don’t know what they all are but I love them. I cannot wait to get to know all of the raven boys and Blue and Maura and Calla and Persephone so well that the details of their favorite things and least favorite things are etched onto my brain and heart and soul.

Adam is such a complex character and I’m both scared and excited to see more of his character growth. At first I though he was just a little soft smol boi, but now I know that he’s a COMPLEX soft smol boi.

Blue is probably the most down to earth and relatable of the squad and I would 100% go on a Barnes and Noble date with her and rant about every random thing possible while drinking Starbucks.

Gansey is so driven and passionate and obsessed. He’s basically me during my first-time-reading-the-entire-Harry-Potter-series phase where bad fanfiction was my Bible. He has a soft boi hidden somewhere inside of him and I can’t wait to read about that soft boi in the following books.

Ronan is the angry bad boy with a troubled past trope, except done in a way that makes me NOT instantly hate him and instead want to get to know his history and the thoughts inside his head. I feel like the Ronan inside is distinctly different from the Ronan facade we got throughout all of this book and I’m psyched to analyze the heck out of both of them when we get the secret Ronan.

Also I wanna get to live in a weird house with all of my best gals. So not fair.

The climax left me all like what the heck and, though there were some boring parts, there was enough action and jazz and tea to keep me way interested the whole time.

This isn’t the first Maggie Stiefvater book I’ve read (Scorpio Races was), but I’ve noticed how magical and lyrical and dreamlike her writing is. Ms. Stiefvater, teach me your ways, please. Her writing was so poetic that as soon I’m done with this review and then ranting about it over on my Bookstagram (@evelyn_and_the_words some shameless promotion here), I plan on writing actual poetry for the first time in like seventeen years. Stiefvater’s writing needs a whole national holiday, just saying. If whoever’s in charge of all the national holiday stuff is for some reason reading this, you can go ahead and make that happen. I give you permission.

I’m aware that this was less of a review and more of straight paragraphs of me just fangirling. Do I plan on fixing this review or changing it? Absolutely not. Deal with it sirs. I’m feeling that post-Life Changing Book high and I want it to never end but this review just did. Mic drop