Book Watch: The Raven Boys
Aug 30
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater will be released in the U.S. on September 18, 2012 in hardcover and audiobook formats.
It is currently available to pre-order online in both formats at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Published by Scholastic Press, the print edition is 416 pages.
An eBook edition is not yet available for pre-order.
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I had the hardest time choosing a book this week. There are nine books releasing the week of September 18th that I’m just dying to read. I was able to finally narrow it down to Ten by Gretchen McNeil, The Crown of Embers by Rae Carson, Because It Is My Blood by Gabrielle Zevin and The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater.
As I have all the above books but The Raven Boys, I decided to choose to put it in the spotlight this week. Because not only could I not take a peek at if I wanted to, I don’t have the ability to pre-order it because it’s not yet been made available for the Kindle to pre-order and because I am a huge, huge fan of author Maggie Stiefvater and it’s been forever since I’d last read a book by her.
I am so unbelievably excited for this book’s release. I am utterly intrigued by the title. I am totally captivated by the description. And I know I’ll fall in love with the writing.
And those Raven Boys. I am just dying to meet them. Gansey, Adam, Ronan and Noah sound so very different, which makes me so very curious about this quest they’re on. And why they’re going on one together.
I want to know what it means to be a Raven Boy. I want to find out just why their world is “strange and sinister.” I want to find out if Blue does fall in love and if it’s fated to end poorly. And I want to see just how everything unfolds in this first book in the series.
Maggie Stiefvater had such a hauntingly beautiful quality to her writing in her Wolves of Mercy Falls series. I’m excited to find out whether this story will have that same style of writing and how it will affect this much darker tale.
The description talks of love and the “inevitability of death” and promises a series that is “spellbinding.” Well, I can’t wait to become spellbound. And I don’t doubt for a second that I will be.
With less than three weeks to release, I am more anxious than ever to read it. I just hope it will be available in eBook format by then or I’ll be running out to the store to grab a copy. Because The Raven Boys is not only a book to watch, but one that I won’t be able to wait to read.
Places to Watch
The author on TWITTER
The author on FACEBOOK
The author on YOUTUBE
The author on GOODREADS
The author’s WEBSITE
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About the Book
“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”
It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.
Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.
His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.
But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. 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.
For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.
From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of theShiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and the nature of love lead us to a place we’ve never been before.
Other Amazing Books to Watch
Here are a ton of awesome books releasing the week of September 18th:
Ten by Gretchen McNeil
The Crown of Embers (Fire and Thorns #2) by Rae Carson
Because It Is My Blood (Birthright #2) by Gabrielle Zevin
Glass Heart (Cold Kiss #2) by Amy Garvey
Stormdancer (The Lotus War #1) by Jay Kristoff
What’s Left of Me by Kat Zhang
The Diviners (The Diviners #1) by Libba Bray
Burn for Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian
Aaah another one I’m dyiiiiiiing to read! :/ This isn’t funny anymore haha, all the books and no way to get them. I’m so intrigued too, I haven’t read her other books but I’m sure I’ll love the writting, everyone says she has a way with words.
I looove that cover too, it’s too perfect. I bet the real book will be beautiful.
i want this book badly . sad i can buy it cause i have not won cash recently
I cannot wait to read this one! It’s release date can’t come soon enough!!!
There isn’t a word in the world that can describe how much I’ve been looking forward to this book…
Ever since Maggie announced it on her blog… How she thought up the book trailer, which is simply, amazing and one of the few book trailers I actually watched…
She’s definitely one of my favorite authors/writers/artists ever… I think I will cry when I get her book… But… I noticed… You said her Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy… Haven’t you read The Scorpio Races yet-’?? Because if you haven’t I might just have to add that one to the list to bug you to read them… Along with Ashfall and The Body Finder!!!
I’m in love with her writing!!!
Thanks for the torture, I mean the post… *_* I tried really hard to get a galley on Netgalley but T_____T it was an epic fail hehehe
Anyway.
#1stalker