The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Nov. 13th, 2013 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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The Raven Boys by Maggie StiefvaterMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Lovely and surprising. My expectations were low given the setup (sixteen-year-old girl has been told by her fortune-telling family that kissing her true love will kill him, sigh, groan), but I was pleased to discover a complicated, well-controlled story of friendship and self-determination, peopled by smart, conflicted teenagers. And you guys know my interest in teenagers is at a permanent low ebb. But this book does the all-too-rare trick of making teenagers into actual people, which is something I may be cursing later as at least one of them will probably be dead when it's all over.
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