Book Details
ASIN: 0545424925
ISBN-10: 9780545424929
ISBN-13: 978-0545424929
Published: September 18, 2012
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Print length: 416 pages
Every year, Blue Sargent stands beside her clairvoyant mother in a quiet churchyard, watching the spirits of those about to die pass by. She has never seen them herself—until one night, when a boy steps out of the darkness and speaks her name.
His name is Gansey.
Gansey is one of the Raven Boys, privileged students from the elite Aglionby Academy—exactly the kind of boy Blue has always been warned to avoid. But there’s something different about him. Beneath the wealth and charm lies an obsession: a lifelong quest to uncover a long-lost Welsh king, a mystery that has already consumed his closest friends—Adam, Ronan, and Noah.
As Blue is drawn deeper into their world, she finds herself entangled in a dangerous blend of magic, secrets, and destiny. And haunting it all is a prophecy she’s carried her entire life: that if she kisses her true love, he will die.
As the lines between friendship, love, and fate begin to blur, Blue must confront the terrifying possibility that her connection to Gansey—and the Raven Boys—may come at a devastating cost.
Atmospheric, magical, and richly layered, The Raven Boys is a spellbinding story of friendship, fate, and the power of belief—where nothing is quite as it seems, and every choice carries consequences.
