Publisher: Scholastic
Page Count: 439
The Raven King is the final installment in the Raven Cycle! You can find my previous reviews for The Raven Boys, The Dream Thieves and Blue Lily, Lily Blue by clicking on the titles!
If you’ve read my previous reviews for the series, you know that I am adamant on not wanting to give away much of anything, which meant they were extremely vague. And I am talking super vague! As a little forewarning, this won’t be much different. There is just something about these books that makes me feel inherently protective of the story and even more so of the characters. Just like Blue, I’ve slowly fallen in love with all the boys and they’ve become MY Raven Boys in the process.
I usually don’t like endings, for obvious reasons, because it means the end. There are stories that I wish could go on forever and I am pretty sure that this is one of the few that actually could (also a reason that I am really, really happy about the companion series from Ronan’s POV coming out in the distant future). So, finales always take me so much longer to read, but I couldn’t pace myself with The Raven King. The stakes have been getting higher and higher for our friends with each book, but this was just pure intensity and despair and what-is-even-happening the entire time, so that I NEEDED to know what happened next. Every time I had to stop reading because of work, but was at a thrilling moment (which was a lot), I seriously cursed that place and adulthood.
However, even though it was a read that gave me all the feels and had me on the edge of my seat, I am not entirely happy about it. I feel like Noah was a character whom I adored, but who was constantly ignored. As far as endings go, I thought that Maggie Stiefvater did well, EXCEPT for Noah again. If I take that aside, the relationships went even further in this one. It had laugh-out-loud moments as well as the ones that made me want to dissolve in tears. The Raven Cycle has such an intricate magical world that just keeps on expanding. The entire series you grow along and learn about the world with the characters. Even though their problems are mostly of the supernatural kind, I felt like so much of it could be applicable for a regular human as well – wanting to belong, being curious, finding your place in this madness!
Fazit: 5/5 stars! Definitely a deserving end of one of my new favourite series!
What’s your take on the Raven King? Did you enjoy it as much as I did?
Life and Other Disasters 
I’m glad you enjoyed it! I was rather disappointed by it (Noah was one of many reasons), but I still love the series and the I loved the character and relationships’ growth thorughout the books. I think it was an okay ending, but I needed more answers. I know that’s entirely my personal taste though 😛
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Noah is my little buttercup and I just felt saddened by his ending. Everyone else got a lot more out of it than he did. And I have to say, I was kind of confused what just happened there xD
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Exactly. What bothered me the post was that Henry was introduced and there was a lot about him and Noah was discarded 😦 Yeah, it was definitely confusing. I don’t think the mysteries where meant to be exactly solved (which drove me crazy haha).
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Yes, I get that! Henry DID fit in, but it was a bit odd to introduce him really detailed this late in the series.
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I am SO happy you loved this book so much, and as you know, I can’t wait to get to it, hopefully before the end of the year. I have way too many books to read. But… NOAH? WHAT HAPPENS TO MY BABY. I love Noah way too much. I can’t wait, and I’m a bit scared to be as bothered as you are as far as Noah is concerned. I guess I’ll see 🙂
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I can’t tell you anything about Noah
but I am pretty sure you won’t be happy either … he deserved better in the end. And it was confusing … in a way that I am still not sure I understood what just happened.
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Oh no…
well, I just have to get around to reading these books very soon to know what happens, then 🙂
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Just enjoy the ride 😀
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Ohh that I will, for sure! 😀
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Oh my goodness, yay. I’m so excited to see you gave it five stars! And thank you for keeping the review super vague; I avoid TRC spoilers like the plague. I’m so good about it, in fact, that I didn’t know there was going to be a Ronan-centric companion series. Excuse me, I need to go have a fankid meltdown now.
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I hate getting spoiled for books, so unless I KNOW that what I say won’t ruin the story in some way, I prefer to just stay vague hahaha Have fun reading the rest of the series! 😀
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