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The Raven Boys | August 29, 2012

by Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic Inc., Sept. 2012)

From Maggie Stiefvater, author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes The Raven Boys, a YA love story that avoids the recent dystopian phenomena. While the characters aren’t living in a post-apocalyptic world, Blue Sargent can’t exactly call her family normal. Raised in a family of clairvoyants, the first line of the prologue foreshadows a key element of this novel- “Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she’d been told that she would kill her true love.”

Blue only enhances her family’s magic, but it’s not until she is forced in the path of four Aglionby boys, members of a rich & elite local school, that she realizes her power may be greater than she thinks. These boys are on a fantastical quest on their own, but when Blue sees a spirit of Gansey, the leader of their group on a “soon-to-be dead” walk on St. Marks Eve, chaos ensues. Each character in this book is dramatically drawn, and you can’t help to read and figure out if their fates will pan out…

Can seeing the future ultimately change it?

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