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I Think I Finally Love YA Again

September 25, 2017 by Ale 1 Comment

In a nutshell, this book is what I had hoped The Mortal Instruments series would have been, and as you know from my review of City of Bones, I was less than happy with the cliches, teenage drama, and terrible love triangle. I’m happy to report that literally NONE of that exists in The Raven Boys. Even though the characters are all high schoolers, and they do believable high school things, this was a mature plot with mature characters. It tackled big issues in comprehensive ways, and even though there […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: Maggie Stiefvater, Raven Boys, Stiefvater, YA fiction

Ale's CBR9 Review No:22 · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: Maggie Stiefvater, Raven Boys, Stiefvater, YA fiction ·
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