Quick question, I've meaning to read the Raven Cycle series, but I'm not sure bc I don't know what it's about, so could you give a quick description about the content if it's not much trouble, please??? Without spoilers.
"What is The Raven Cycle about?” is a great question that, as anyone in the TRC fandom knows, is borderline impossible to answer! Here is honestly the best, shortest description I could give you that I still felt represented the series reasonably well:
Contents of The Raven Cycle, plot-wise: A girl named Blue is fated to kill her true love if she ever kisses him. On St. Mark’s Eve, the spirits of people who will die in the coming year appear to people with psychic abilities, which Blue does not have. Nevertheless, one St. Mark’s Eve, she sees the spirit of a boy named Gansey, and the only reason a non-psychic would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve is if they’re your true love or if you killed them, so... you can do that (pretty simple) math. Gansey is a rich student at a local all-boys boarding school, and he’s on a quest to find the tomb of the medieval Welsh king Glendower, who he believes is actually just sleeping and can be woken up by the right person. Along for the ride are Gansey’s classmates Adam, Ronan, and Noah, who all have secrets and storylines of their own. Despite this entire plot description being about Blue and Gansey, Adam and Ronan are equally important characters and there’s a very strong case to be made that Adam is the closest thing the series has to a central main character. Also, the series is much lighter on the romance than the premise makes it sound—I mean, there is romance, but much more time is spent on the characters’ friendships than anything else. Other characters include (but are not limited to) a house full of psychic women, a rotating assortment of rich boys of various levels of douchiness, a hitman with a heart of slightly battered gold and also clinical depression, a robotic bee, and a sentient forest.
Contents of The Raven Cycle, emotions and theme-wise: Yearning, both in the romantic sense and in the sense of wanting something more out of life. Classism. Trauma. Making your outsides match your insides. Emotional repression. Cars. Murder. Dreams. Magic. Catholicism. More cars. Nature. Friendship. Myths. Agency. The many different ways to be a person. Doing things entirely for the #aesthetic. Being seventeen and feeling like you’re on the cusp of your entire future but grieving the concomitant end of childhood. Having a to-do list for the summer and thing one is figuring out your sexual orientation. Family. Homecoming. How physical locations take on lives of their own via the memories we form there and the emotions we connect them to. What it means to be a king. Cars one more time for good measure.
Contents of The Raven Cycle, trigger warnings-wise: physical and emotional abuse, alcoholism, drug use (not by any of the main characters), internalized homophobia, gore, unreality, parental death.
I hope this covered all the bases you were looking for! The series genuinely is so hard to describe because the beat-for-beat plot description is completely divorced from what the books are actually like.
pixelskylines
discoholicmusic
andulkaphoto