5th Read - audiobook!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE these audiobooks narrated by Will Patton. I'm currently doing a comfort re-listen/binge of the entire Raven Cycle and I'm so happy.

3rd or 4th read - not sure 03.27-03.28.2016
Decided to start my re-read of the Raven Cyle in preparation for [b:The Raven King|17378527|The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4)|Maggie Stiefvater|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1477103790s/17378527.jpg|24170172] on Easter, because resurrecting an ancient Welsh King seemed appropriate for Easter. Just as amazing after so many reads, and Maggie Stiefvater's prose just keeps on giving gifts. So in love, and so excited and so afraid for this series to end.

2nd read:

So in awe of this story, the writing, and the characters. My favorite books are about bands of misfits who are meant to be together yet grind against one another in the most delicious of ways. After listening to this on audiobook (and book 2) I was so glad to go back and read it to absorb even more of the details and my god the FORESHADOWING that I missed the first go around. It is clear that Stiefvater has a true plan for this series, and I cannot WAIT to discover where we are going. I am afraid though, that it may shatter my heart (but it will be totally worth it).


1st "read"
**Review based on audiobook read by Will Patton

Blue Sargeant's mother and aunts are all psychic. Blue is not, but somehow her presence helps amplify their gifts. Blue has also been told by every psychic she meets that if she kisses her true love, he will die. Now 16, Blue is just fine not kissing anyone and living her life. That is until a huge mystery involving a group of boys from the prestigious Aglionby Academy, a long lost Welsh King's bones, and some powerful ley lines threatens to rock her entire world.

I love Maggie Stiefvater's characters; they are deliciously well-drawn and so alive, even when minor. Blue's scenes with the boys (Ronin, Gansey, Adam, and Noah) simply sparkle with life. Will Patton also does an amazing job capturing the South Carolina flair in speech, and each character is entirely distinct. He does a marvelous job narrating women too. Love.

This book, well seemingly a 'romance' due to the nature of Blue's curse (kissing leading to death) is really not a romance yet at all. The story focues on creating the deep ties between the characters that I'm sure is going to lead to some tough times later on in the series.

I will defintely be loading up Book 2, the Dream Thieves, in the car soon!