Book Descriptions
for The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Readers of the previous three books in the Raven Cycle will find immense satisfaction in this culmination of the series’ plethora of storylines. Cabeswater is being unmade from the inside by a demon, and it threatens the world Adam, Gansey, Blue, and especially Ronan find vital. Gansey finds his King at last, but it’s not the solution he believed it would be. Saving Cabeswater and his companions demands Gansey’s sacrifice, but also the strengths and abilities of friends old and new as they problem-solve under pressure in a moment of crisis. Romance that has been building since book one reaches fruition for several characters, including Gansey and Blue, who struggle to escape the fatal destiny of the foretold kiss. Reading the earlier volumes is a must to follow the complex storylines, but this masterful conclusion is a pleasure worth waiting for, and the happy ending feels well-deserved by this compelling cast of teens who are living in our world while battling threats from other planes and other times. (Age 13 and older)
CCBC Choices 2017. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2017. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
The fourth and final installment in the spellbinding series from the irrepressible, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater. All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death. She doesn't believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore. In a starred review for Blue Lily, Lily Blue, Kirkus Reviews declared: "Expect this truly one-of-a-kind series to come to a thundering close."
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