He became very resentful of others for what they had and his jealous nature started to come through, which annoyed me a lot.
I really liked his character from the start but he started to get on my nerves as I progressed through the book. He doesn’t quite fit in with the others and is always aware of his poor background. Adam is the scholarship student from an abusive family.
His character is complex and misunderstood and I loved him so much because of it. But he’s definitely not your typical rich and perfect male protagonist. He’s a very genuine character who everybody else seems to see as a little pretentious. The leader of the Raven boys is a boy called Gansey, who I found to be the most interesting of all the characters. She becomes involved with a group of Raven boys from a nearby private high school, who are involved in a search for magical ley lines and a lost Welsh King. Instead, she’s almost like a battery that enhances the spiritual energy around her and makes it louder. Our main protagonist, Blue, comes from a family of psychics but she’s the only one who doesn’t have psychic abilities. It has a whole cast of very intriguing characters that draw you in and make you want to know more. The Raven Boys, for me, was very much a character-driven book. It was creepy and atmospheric, with lots of interesting and unique characters. I’ve previously read the Shiver trilogy, which I really liked, and I think The Raven Boys, as a first book, was just as good, if not better. The Raven Boys is the first book in Maggie Stiefvater’s paranormal series, The Raven Cycle. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore. She never thought this would be a problem. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.įor as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. He has it all-family money, good looks, devoted friends-but he’s looking for much more than that. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.īut Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue herself never sees them-not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her. It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.Įvery year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. “There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St.
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