I haven’t finished any new series lately but I’ve decided to keep posting these anyway as I have a decent amount to still talk about. I’ve been trying to find some good series but I’m obviously not looking in the right places. Hopefully, before I get to end of my list I will have found some.
The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater
It took me literally years to get through this series but that was because I didn’t want it to end. There’s something so magical about how this book is written, it’s really not something I am able to articulate, it’s just a feeling–almost like the characters are suspended in time. If you’ve read this series, do let me know if you get what I’m talking about. I’m sure I even know what I mean.
The Raven Cycle is a series I would like to reread at some point, but it won’t be any time soon. Not for any particular reason, this series is stunning and poetic, I’d just need to be in the right mood.
Synopsis: “There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”
It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.
Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.
His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.
But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.
For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.
Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini
I feel like I’ve been talking about this series a lot lately but that’s probably because I reread the first book last year. I first read this series when I was a teenager so I was worried it wouldn’t hold up to my memories but I really enjoyed the first book a second time round. I’m actually planning to reread the entire series at some point.
This series is inspired by the story of Helen of Troy and the Greek gods. It’s not an outright retelling but it is cleverly done. I won’t give too much away here as the revelation is fun, but trust me when I say this series is pretty good–just don’t take it too seriously.
Synopsis: How do you defy DESTINY?
Helen Hamilton has spent her entire sixteen years trying to hide how different she is – no easy task on an island as small and sheltered as Nantucket. And it’s getting harder. Nightmares of a desperate desert journey have Helen waking parched, only to find her sheets damaged by dirt and dust. At school she’s haunted by hallucinations of three women weeping tears of blood… and when Helen first crosses paths with Lucas Delos, she has no way of knowing they’re destined to play the leading roles in a tragedy the Fates insist on repeating throughout history.
As Helen unlocks the secrets of her ancestry, she realises that some myths are more than just legend. But even demigod powers might not be enough to defy the forces that are both drawing her and Lucas together – and trying to tear them apart.
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