by Maggie Stiefvater
Adapted by Stephanie Williams
Illustrations by Sas Milledge
Viking
an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
2025
256 pages
ISBN: 9780593621189
Available July 29, 2025
It was only a matter of time before someone would finally create the graphic novel for The Raven Boys, which I believe might be Stiefvater's best work--better than the Shiver series.
Four rich boys from Aglionby, an all boys' posh school, hire a psychic to figure out why one of them was on a tape recording he doesn't remember making. Blue Sargent lives and goes to school in the non-rich and privileged side of town. She comes from a family of psychics but has never had the "gift.' She is able to "amplify" spirits during her mother's readings, and attends the a session her mother asks her to sit in on: a reading booked by the boys.
The boys are told they are looking for something and they are. Their fascination with finding ley lines, lines of sheer energy. gets them excited to imagine waking one of The Legend of the Sleeping Kings," King Glendower who it's said is buried right near their town in Virginia.
The graphic novel format make Stiefvater's story accessible to reluctant and visual readers making this a must-have purchase. Buy multiple copies and put one in graphic novels and one on the shelf next to The Raven Cycle series of books. Highly recommended grades 7 and up.
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