2-4-6-8, Don't Marry Books.

[rionaleonhart]

To whoever tried to distract me from the break-in by gifting me The Raven Boys via Amazon (all Amazon would tell me was that it was apparently from a 'Noah?', question mark included): thank you so much! Claiming a Kindle book gift from a different country is, it turns out, a bit of a production; I had to exchange the gift for an amazon.com gift certificate, then change my Kindle device country settings so I could actually order things from amazon.com, then buy the book I was gifted in the first place. But it's possible and it's now been done! Thank you!

th_esaurus is going to be so pleased; I know she really wants me to read this.

Here is a summary of the impressions I've gained of The Raven Boys, so I can look back and see how accurate or otherwise they prove to be when I actually read it:

- The main character is a girl named Blue.
- The male lead is a boy with a ridiculous name (Richard Gansey III?).
- Gansey is part of a group of boys who are basically the Marauders (he is Fake James Potter). Fake Sirius/Fake Remus is unsurprisingly the most popular pairing (and possibly canon?), but th_esaurus insists that Fake Remus/Fake James is in fact better. Fake Remus is poor and hates being pitied for it. I assume there's a Fake Peter Pettigrew somewhere.
- The plot is... er, all right, this is where I fall down. The plot is that... there are ley lines? And Fake James nearly died, but then he didn't because he was standing on a ley line. And... he wants to resurrect a dead Scottish king who is buried under the ley line... so he can ask the king why the ley line made him not die? Can that be right? That doesn't seem like it can be right.
- Also there's a prophecy that Blue's true love will die when she kisses him, but apparently that is surprisingly unimportant to the plot. It's all ley lines.
- At some point someone possibly gets possessed by an evil tree.

And those are the impressions I have of this book.


'Everything becomes ten times more homoerotic whenever Derek's on screen,' I observed while we were watching episode 2.01 of Teen Wolf. Later in the episode, Derek spent several minutes holding Scott to his chest and hissing 'This is why we need each other' into his ear. 'Ten times' may have been a conservative estimate.

I say 'homoerotic', but he got very sexual with the asthmatic young lady a few episodes on, so perhaps Derek is just banging his way through the entire cast, regardless of gender. (If I write Teen Wolf fanfiction, this will be the plot.)

Comments

[wolfy-writing.livejournal.com]

I like that you think the name "Richard Gansey III" is more ridiculous than "Blue".

All Scottish kings are experts on ley lines! They have to pass a test before being crowned! The aboition of the Scottish monarchy happened when someone lost the textbook!

Evil trees?

[rionaleonhart]

The Scottish monarchy wasn't abolished! It took over the English monarchy! At which there was great outrage, because a lot of English people didn't know a bloody thing about ley lines. I mean, come on.

I like that you think the name "Richard Gansey III" is more ridiculous than "Blue".

That... that is a fair point.

Evil trees?

I don't know any more than you do! I will let you know if the evil tree situation becomes clear upon reading.

[wolfy-writing.livejournal.com]

So wait, Scotland took over England, and then tried to get independence? Couldn't they just...release you? Or break up with you, or whatever you call it?

Didn't ley lines come from druids? Who were English and/or French? (I know there were druids in Asterix.)

Keep me rigorously updated on the evil tree situation!

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Evil Dead had evil trees, but tbf, they had just realised an evil spirit into the world, so I guess that evil spirit possessed a tree for a bit.

[wolfy-writing.livejournal.com]

I remember those evil trees!