This series is almost indescribable...there are ley lines and sleeping kings and cars and forbidden love and some really amazing prose...it is weird and wonderful and I CAN.NOT.WAIT. for the fourth and last installment, I have a feeling I may cry a little (read: me sobbing for days).
From School Library Journal
Gr 9 Up—Having inhaled the first two installments in this
thrilling series about four Virginia schoolboys on a quest to find a
legendary Welsh king, teens will be anxious to see where Stiefvater next
leads Gansey, Adam, Ronan, and Noah. The volume picks up directly after
The Dream Thieves (Scholastic, 2013) and the quest takes some bizarre
and dangerous twists. Blue Sargent and the psychically talented women of
300 Fox Way take center stage this time. Blue's mother Maura has
disappeared, and it's not immediately clear if she wants to be found.
Despite the fact that "time and space were bathtubs that Maura splashed
in," Blue and Mr. Gray, Maura's ex-hitman boyfriend, begin to think
she's underground and in trouble. Informed by several mystical and live
sources that there are three ancient sleepers in the nearby mountain
caves, one of which is not to be awakened, the young people are hurled
toward a subterranean encounter of the weirdest kind. Throughout, the
prose is crisp and dazzling and the dialogue positively crackles. The
supernatural elements—magic, a mirrored lake, an evil curse, the
appearance of Owen Glendower's 600-year-old daughter—are completely
organic and suspension of disbelief is effortless due to the nuanced and
affecting characterization. Blue and the Raven Boys come into their own
over the course of the novel and realize their individual strengths and
the power of their collective bonds, making them unstoppable. It's a
good thing, because it seems as though all hell is about to break loose
in the final volume.—Luann Toth, School Library Journal
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