A review by lokes
The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

Why did the queer relationship feel like the author had given all of the male characters extremely good chemistry between each other (but let’s be real, most of them had a thing for Gansey and you can’t convince me otherwise) this, however, felt like extremely awkward queer baiting, until she landed on the couple in the last few chapters, after four relentlessly long books, which just felt kinda forced (the timing, not the couple!). Still happy we got the queer couple I thought we’d have from the start, and I was extremely disappointed to see that it wasn’t labeled as lgbtqia+ on storygraph (someone had said it was queer and I thought it would be… more. But that’s definitely on me 😅)