#122 in Young adult
The Raven Boys
- 464
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Raven Boys” wins readers over through its characters and its eerie small-town atmosphere rather than through speed. The opening is slow, and some people needed time to settle in among Blue, Gansey and the others. Once the group clicks, their search for a sleeping Welsh king is, for some readers, unlike anything else they have read. It is the first of four volumes, and some go straight on to the next.
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About the book
The first book in Maggie Stiefvater's #1 New York Times bestselling series The Raven Cycle, now gorgeously illustrated as a graphic novel! Blue Sargent comes from a family of psychics. Only, she has never had the same clairvoyant abilities they had and has always felt too ordinary within the magic that surrounded her. Enter Gansey, a rich student from Aglionby, the town’s all-boys private school teeming with wealth, privilege, and trouble. Blue's always made it a point to stay away from its students, the Raven Boys. But when Gansey asks her to join him and three other Raven Boys on his quest to find a long-forgotten Welsh king rumored to be sleeping beneath the mountains of their quiet Virginia town, Blue doesn’t hesitate. She jumps at the chance to finally be a part of something real and full of magic, a world she was born into yet one that always stood just out of reach. Soon enough, she’s swept into a strange and shifting world woven into theirs, one far more dangerous than anything they could have dreamt up. Now reimagined as a stunning full-color graphic novel adapted by Stephanie Williams and illustrated by Sas Milledge, The Raven Boys unravels a thrilling plot around a cast of characters impossible to forget.
Reading order · The Raven Cycle
Full order & progress →- The Raven BoysThis book
8.08.0 / 10 - The Dream Thieves
–Not ranked yet - Blue Lily, Lily BlueBlue Lily, Lily Blue–Not ranked yet
- The Raven King
–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 643 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 81% of the weight and the score stays at 8.0 — the Young adult average of 7.8 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.9 | 26 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 617 | 96% |
Frequently asked
What age is The Raven Boys for?
The Raven Boys sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 464 pages — shorter than 62% of the ranked books in Young adult.
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