ebonwilde 's review for:

The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

3.0

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this was very... meh. i didn't exactly hate it, but it was a very underwhelming finish to the series. i also just don't understand it? the plot isn't too difficult to follow, but i do not get the why. why did anything in this book, or even series, happen? we were definitely going somewhere in the dream thieves, but then it just kept going south. i feel like i would give this much more grace if it was high fantasy. however, the idea of a group of 16 year olds *in contemporary society* running around trying to bring back a thousand year old welsh king back from the dead simply because one of them had a hallucination when he was 10 requires a deep suspension of disbelief. and the fact that everyone allows gansey to do so is just as insane (henry immediately agreeing that it's a perfectly sane endeavor despite having no prior association with this ??). i understood the reasoning in the first two books, and it definitely should have ended there, because this book just drags on and on and on about nothing. it has one of the most pointless endings i've ever read.

one thing i will say is that blue and gansey were adorable. they always are, but in this one, just more so.