This week I started the first book of a series, The Raven Boys, by Maggie Stiefvater. I don't know if I'll read the whole series, but so far I'm definitely enjoying it more than Uglies. It's a little confusing for the first few chapters for a couple of reasons. First, even though it's written in third person, it focuses on the thoughts and feelings of one character in one chapter, and another the next. It only switches between two, but it switches after a random number of chapters without warning. It could be one chapter before it switches, or it could be three.
Second, a bunch of characters got introduced in a jumble. The first chapter, the female lead and literally her entire family got introduced. Then maybe two or three chapters later, we're getting introduced to the male lead, his three best friends, and one of the best friends' brother. What? Too much at once. And the third thing is that everyone has really weird names that no one actually seems to think are weird. The female ls named “Blue.” Like the color. The male lead is technically Dick Gansey, but he goes by Gansey. I would be fine with him going by Dick. Some people might laugh, but it's actually a name, unlike GANSEY. Also, I'm in love with Dick Grayson (the first Robin from the Batman timeline) so I've become desensitized to the name.
Anyways, TL;DR the point of view switches too suddenly, there's too many characters getting introduced all at once, and all of those characters have names I didn't think were names. Except for Ronan, which I heard when I went into a two-day Irish phase, and Adam, who is a precious smol bean and I want to protect. He's adorable and I don't even know what he looks like.
I haven't actually told you anything about this book, have I? Wow, I'm great at this. So, basically, Blue (because that’s a name that no one provides an explanation for and just is) is the only one in a family of real-life psychics who doesn't have prophetic powers. But every psychic she's seen has told her she'll kill her true love if she kisses them. Yay, exactly what every little girl wants to hear.
Anyways, apparently there's this there’s this thing where on a certain day psychics can see people who will die in the next year, but Blue isn't psychic, so she can't see them. But this year, she sees a boy and talks to him. (Spoiler alert, it's Gansey!) And she's like, ‘wow, that was weird. What just happened?’ and her crazy aunt tells her that either he's her true love or she killed him. Apparently, if we believe the previous psychics, it's both. And then we go see inside of Gansey's head. He's looking for some magic stuff, I guess, because he… wants to wake up a king or something? I don't even know. But he and his friends go to this rich-kids' school that Blue hates because all the guys there are mean. And they just happen to go to the restaurant where Blue works, and Gansey and Blue HAVE A CONVERSATION but Blue doesn't know it's him WHY oh my God Blue you're so stupid (that's a lie, you couldn't have known).
So yeah. That's what happened. Also Ronan and his brother got into a fistfight, but you know. No one died or anything, so it's fine. Probably. Byyye!
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