Raven Cycle

[asra]

I'm way behind on reviewing books I've been reading, but I have to recommend the Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater. Just finished the first book, which I thoroughly enjoyed. It ends with such a killer line that I had to start reading the second one immediately. Here's the (completely non-spoilery) beginning of book two to entice you:

A secret is a strange thing.

There are three kinds of secrets. One is the sort everyone knows about, the sort you need at least two people for. One to keep it. One to never know. The second is a harder kind of secret: one you keep from yourself. Every day, thousands of confessions are kept from their would-be confessors, none of these people knowing that their never-admitted secrets all boil down to the same three words: I am afraid.

And then there is the third kind of secret, the most hidden kind. A secret no one knows about. Perhaps it was known once, but was taken to the grave. Or maybe it is a useless mystery, arcane and lonely, unfound because no one ever looked for it.

Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind to hold. It is too strange, too vast, too terrifying to contemplate.

All of us have secrets in our lives. We’re keepers or kept-from, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches — that’s what will be left at the end of it all.

Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.

Thank you my lovely chaosmaka for reccing the fanfic that got me into reading the series. <3

Comments

[bohemiabythesea.livejournal.com]

I loved it also, and was introduced to it by the same fine person! Then, we met just after book 4 came out, and we had Many Things to Discuss.

[lyryk.livejournal.com]

Haha, I know, right? Book 4, yeesh.

[bohemiabythesea.livejournal.com]

God, sorry I'm so late with replying - was offline again for a little while when at conference and then with cousin.

Book 4 is just so...disappointing. Basically, that's my main feeling about it. A few nice perks, and in general - meh, loose threads, wonky story telling, too many new characters that are not entirely relevant, sloppy editing, poor choices in imagery, meh.

Still. Lots of entertainment was to be had with books 1-3!