This week’s Book of the Week is the first in Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle, The Raven Boys. This is a book about psychics, ley lines and forgotten kings – all set in a small town in America. I love the way Maggie Stiefvater makes extraordinary things happen in very ordinary places…

The blurb on the back says:

Even if Blue hadn’t been told her true love would die if she kissed him, she would stay away from boys. Especially the ones from the local private school. Known as Raven Boys, they only mean trouble.

 

But this is the year that everything will change for Blue.

 

This is the year that she will be drawn into the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys. And the year Blue will discover that magic does exist.

 

This is the year she will fall in love.

I have just learnt (by reading Maggie Stiefvater’s web page – click on the book cover to go there) that her last name is pronounced Steve-otter, so I’ve been saying it incorrectly for the last three years…