The Conclusion of a Beloved Series: A Yearning for Answers and Satisfaction

I have to admit that I've never felt as invested in the conclusion of a series as I did with this one. I found myself yearning for answers, flipping pages, and waiting with bated breath to see what would happen next. The tension was palpable, and I couldn't handle it. The author had masterfully crafted a narrative that left me craving resolution, and I was determined to get my answers.

The wait was worth it, though. When I finally got to the conclusion of the series, I felt an overwhelming sense of satisfaction. It was like all the pieces had fallen into place, and I couldn't believe how much sense the author had made it all make. The plot twists were expertly woven together, and the character development was superb. I loved how the answers weren't given at the forefront; instead, they were subtly hinted at throughout the book. This kept me engaged and guessing until the very end.

However, even with my satisfaction, I couldn't help but feel a sense of disappointment. The ending had some holes in it, and I felt like it left room for potential spin-offs or continuations. I couldn't get over the fact that Glendower was dead when they found him. I know it's not necessarily a bad thing, but it just didn't sit right with me. I felt like it was a moment of letdown after all the hype and anticipation.

The author did redeem themselves to some extent by incorporating a beautiful message about the characters finding their own paths in life. This message resonated deeply with me, and I appreciated how it was woven into the narrative without feeling forced or artificial. The relationship between Ronan, Adam, Gansey, and Noah was expertly handled, and I loved how their bond transcended physical presence.

One aspect that did disappoint me was the introduction of Henry. I felt like he was an unnecessary addition to the story, particularly since it seemed like he was made to replace Noah in some way. The dynamic between Ronan, Adam, Gansey, and Noah felt like a cohesive unit, and having Henry disrupt this felt jarring to me. It's not that I didn't want him there; it's just that his presence felt like an intrusion on the private moments between the other characters.

Overall, I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. The series was fantastic, and the conclusion was satisfying in most respects. While it had some flaws, particularly with regards to Glendower's fate and Henry's introduction, these did not detract from my overall enjoyment of the story. If anything, they added depth and complexity to the narrative.

The Author's Craft: Leaving Room for Interpretation

One of the aspects that made this series so compelling was its ability to leave room for interpretation. The author masterfully crafted a narrative that hinted at answers without giving them away too quickly. This kept me engaged and guessing throughout the book, as I tried to piece together the puzzle myself.

This approach also allowed me to fill in the blanks with my own imagination. After falling in love with these characters over the course of the series, it was nice to be able to decide for myself what happened to them after the conclusion of the story. This felt like a gift, as I got to invest my own emotions and thoughts into the narrative.

This approach also speaks to the author's skill in storytelling. By leaving room for interpretation, they created a sense of ownership among their readers. We became invested in the characters and the world they inhabited, and we had a stake in seeing how everything would play out. This is a testament to the author's craft, as they were able to weave together disparate threads into a cohesive narrative that felt both satisfying and thought-provoking.

The Potential for a Spin-Off

One of the things that I found most exciting about this series was its potential for a spin-off. The ending left room for possibility, and I couldn't help but wonder if there would be more stories set in this world or with these characters. This is what got me so excited – the idea that there could be more to explore, more to discover.

I think it's no secret that authors often leave room for potential spin-offs or continuations, and this series did exactly that. By not tying everything up too neatly, they created an opening for new stories to emerge. This was both a blessing and a curse – on the one hand, it left me with unanswered questions; on the other hand, it gave me hope that I might get more of these characters in the future.

The End: A Bittersweet Conclusion

For me, the ending of this series was bittersweet. On the one hand, I felt satisfied with how everything turned out; on the other hand, I couldn't help but feel a sense of disappointment when it became clear that some things wouldn't be resolved in the way I had hoped.

As I mentioned earlier, Glendower's fate left me feeling disappointed. The tension and anticipation had built up so much over the course of the series that it was hard to swallow when it all came crashing down. However, as I reflected on the story more, I realized that this might have been a necessary part of the narrative.

The author did an excellent job of balancing the different plot threads and character arcs. By leaving some things open-ended, they created a sense of ambiguity that added depth to the story. This was especially true when it came to Henry's introduction – while it felt jarring at first, it ultimately added a new layer of complexity to the narrative.

In conclusion, I would highly recommend this series to anyone who enjoys character-driven fiction with complex plotlines. The author has done an excellent job of crafting a narrative that is both satisfying and thought-provoking. While there might be some minor quibbles, these do not detract from my overall enjoyment of the story.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone its Hayley and today I'm going to be doing a spoiler free review for the Raven king by Mikey Steve otter so this review will be entirely spoiler free as long as you have read the previous three books in the Raven cycle quartet because this is the conclusion to that series it might not really be spoilery but just continue at your own risk so this book is the much anticipated by equally dreaded conclusion to the Raven cycle quartet and in this book we finally get the answers that we have been waiting for forever throughout the whole series and it has just been a slow-burning journey but we have gotten there and we finally get our answers honestly I just want Maggie's divider to add another book from it to this series just so then I can read the writing because her writing is just so fabulous it's completely engrossing it's beautiful lyrical it's everything that I could want in the writing for this series like it is just absolutely fantastic the world building and character development are just on point and I just cannot get over how well-written this series was one thing that I mentioned in my review for the previous book blue Lily Lily blue is that this series is interesting because the books can each stand on their own but they also are part of the greater story art if that makes sense so these books are really just part of this intricately woven utterly captivating story that you can't help but fall in love with and each of them kind of focuses on their own thing but they all come together to make an incredible story that just takes you on a journey and it is just absolutely maddening because you want answers but you can't help but keep reading because it's just so intriguing I am honestly so heartbroken that I'm never going to read about these characters again because I just fell in love with them I cannot even describe my love for blue in the Raven boys I just think that they are such amazing characters and they were just so well developed that they felt like they were real people and I just wanted to be friends with them and protect them and go on this journey with them and I honestly feel privileged having read this book and being able to be a part of their journey because it was that good now I'm not going to talk about each of the characters individually because in this book they did work individually but I think they truly came together as a family in this book it they were a family in the past but you saw them each kind of bring their own thing to the table and really combine forces to fight and to just work together and go through this journey together the one thing that I did hate about the characters though was that there was a character introduced in blue Lily Lily blue that was brought into it as kind of a main character in this book and that was Henry and I just felt like he was kind of someone commented on my Goodreads thing and I think they put it the best when they said that it felt like he was intruding it just didn't feel like it was his moment to be a part of and I was kind of just annoyed with his presence if he had been introduced earlier in the series I would have been fine with it but I had fallen in love with these characters over the course of this series and I just felt like you know this whole book was really the sacred moment that it should just be them that were taking part of but they brought a new character into it and it just kind of irked me and his rural honestly kind of just made me sad but I will elaborate more on that because I'm going to talk a little bit spoilery at the end of this video I'll warn you when I've honestly never gotten to the conclusion of a series wanting answers as badly as I did with this one I was just like yearning for it I could not handle it and I just kept on flipping pages flipping theaters wanting the answer is that I have been dying to get four three books now and the I got my answers and I'm so glad that I did but like it was just so heartbreaking because I was like now what but I really liked how the answers weren't just given at the forefront they the book kind of let you stay on those questions for a while and still kind of have them there and it kept you kind of going through the book and it was cool I will say the ending had quite a few holes in it but I kind of feel like it was leaving room for possibly a spin-off series I could be just talking crap right now but I kind of think that there's potential for more with this story which makes me really happy I feel like not like a continuation of this story but like maybe looking into a side character more or something like that I think that the whole is and it kind of left potential for that which i think is great and even if there isn't another spin-off series I think that it really kind of let you fill in the blanks which after you fall in love with these characters over the course of the series it was kind of nice to be able to decide for yourself what you wanted to happen to them after this was done so overall I obviously give this book a 5 out 5 stars this series is just so fantastic and it was a fantastic conclusion to an amazing series I couldn't have asked for more and I just absolutely loved it so now I'm going to take some time and talk about a couple of spoilers so if you haven't read this book yet then I suggest you leave go and read it and then you can come back I'm not going to be talking about too much but I do have a couple things that I want to talk about so goodbye non-spoiler people and everyone who has read it I'm going to start spoiling now so as much as I really love this book and I think that it ended the way that it had to end I couldn't help but be disappointed when they went in found Glendower and it turned out that he was dead I just felt like it was this burning question and it was really just kind of hyped up so much that the only option was disappointment and I I feel like now that I've read it I've known that sense of blue Lily Lily blue but I kind of wasn't really willing to accept it but now that it happened and you find out that he's sleeping I was just like so now what was this all for but then but then there was the whole message of them not needing to find this king because they are the kings of their own lives interests are so beautiful was like yes I I so love this and I think it just ended up having such a nice message but it did leave me feeling disappointed but like I said I think that was kind of the point now the thing with Henry is that he's very obviously made to replace Noah which I just feel like was an intrusion on something beautiful which was the relationship between Ronan Adam Gansey and blue and how they worked together and even when it was just the four of them their presence kind of suggested that and like you always felt like Noah was there if that makes sense because they were all such close friends that even if he's not there physically like he was just kind of there in spirit I guess if that makes sense it's not really coming out how I want it to but I just felt like by having Ronan blue Gansey and Adam together Noah's presence was implied and by having Henry there it just kind of felt like he was intruding on this private moment and it really just kind of irked me so I didn't really like the fact that Henry had to be there I wanted it to be the oh geez and just I just wanted it so I don't know it it disappointed me a little bit so those are really the only two spoilery things that I have to talk about but I just kind of wanted to get those off my chest because no one that I'm friends with and like real life really reads the same books as me so I don't have anyone to talk to about it so I think on in review is where I have like spoilery things that I want to talk about I'm gonna start doing that at the end of the video let me know if you guys would like that or if you don't or whatever so yeah if you have read this book which by this point if you're watching the spoilers you should have let me know your thoughts on it and yeah I'll see you guys in the next video byehey everyone its Hayley and today I'm going to be doing a spoiler free review for the Raven king by Mikey Steve otter so this review will be entirely spoiler free as long as you have read the previous three books in the Raven cycle quartet because this is the conclusion to that series it might not really be spoilery but just continue at your own risk so this book is the much anticipated by equally dreaded conclusion to the Raven cycle quartet and in this book we finally get the answers that we have been waiting for forever throughout the whole series and it has just been a slow-burning journey but we have gotten there and we finally get our answers honestly I just want Maggie's divider to add another book from it to this series just so then I can read the writing because her writing is just so fabulous it's completely engrossing it's beautiful lyrical it's everything that I could want in the writing for this series like it is just absolutely fantastic the world building and character development are just on point and I just cannot get over how well-written this series was one thing that I mentioned in my review for the previous book blue Lily Lily blue is that this series is interesting because the books can each stand on their own but they also are part of the greater story art if that makes sense so these books are really just part of this intricately woven utterly captivating story that you can't help but fall in love with and each of them kind of focuses on their own thing but they all come together to make an incredible story that just takes you on a journey and it is just absolutely maddening because you want answers but you can't help but keep reading because it's just so intriguing I am honestly so heartbroken that I'm never going to read about these characters again because I just fell in love with them I cannot even describe my love for blue in the Raven boys I just think that they are such amazing characters and they were just so well developed that they felt like they were real people and I just wanted to be friends with them and protect them and go on this journey with them and I honestly feel privileged having read this book and being able to be a part of their journey because it was that good now I'm not going to talk about each of the characters individually because in this book they did work individually but I think they truly came together as a family in this book it they were a family in the past but you saw them each kind of bring their own thing to the table and really combine forces to fight and to just work together and go through this journey together the one thing that I did hate about the characters though was that there was a character introduced in blue Lily Lily blue that was brought into it as kind of a main character in this book and that was Henry and I just felt like he was kind of someone commented on my Goodreads thing and I think they put it the best when they said that it felt like he was intruding it just didn't feel like it was his moment to be a part of and I was kind of just annoyed with his presence if he had been introduced earlier in the series I would have been fine with it but I had fallen in love with these characters over the course of this series and I just felt like you know this whole book was really the sacred moment that it should just be them that were taking part of but they brought a new character into it and it just kind of irked me and his rural honestly kind of just made me sad but I will elaborate more on that because I'm going to talk a little bit spoilery at the end of this video I'll warn you when I've honestly never gotten to the conclusion of a series wanting answers as badly as I did with this one I was just like yearning for it I could not handle it and I just kept on flipping pages flipping theaters wanting the answer is that I have been dying to get four three books now and the I got my answers and I'm so glad that I did but like it was just so heartbreaking because I was like now what but I really liked how the answers weren't just given at the forefront they the book kind of let you stay on those questions for a while and still kind of have them there and it kept you kind of going through the book and it was cool I will say the ending had quite a few holes in it but I kind of feel like it was leaving room for possibly a spin-off series I could be just talking crap right now but I kind of think that there's potential for more with this story which makes me really happy I feel like not like a continuation of this story but like maybe looking into a side character more or something like that I think that the whole is and it kind of left potential for that which i think is great and even if there isn't another spin-off series I think that it really kind of let you fill in the blanks which after you fall in love with these characters over the course of the series it was kind of nice to be able to decide for yourself what you wanted to happen to them after this was done so overall I obviously give this book a 5 out 5 stars this series is just so fantastic and it was a fantastic conclusion to an amazing series I couldn't have asked for more and I just absolutely loved it so now I'm going to take some time and talk about a couple of spoilers so if you haven't read this book yet then I suggest you leave go and read it and then you can come back I'm not going to be talking about too much but I do have a couple things that I want to talk about so goodbye non-spoiler people and everyone who has read it I'm going to start spoiling now so as much as I really love this book and I think that it ended the way that it had to end I couldn't help but be disappointed when they went in found Glendower and it turned out that he was dead I just felt like it was this burning question and it was really just kind of hyped up so much that the only option was disappointment and I I feel like now that I've read it I've known that sense of blue Lily Lily blue but I kind of wasn't really willing to accept it but now that it happened and you find out that he's sleeping I was just like so now what was this all for but then but then there was the whole message of them not needing to find this king because they are the kings of their own lives interests are so beautiful was like yes I I so love this and I think it just ended up having such a nice message but it did leave me feeling disappointed but like I said I think that was kind of the point now the thing with Henry is that he's very obviously made to replace Noah which I just feel like was an intrusion on something beautiful which was the relationship between Ronan Adam Gansey and blue and how they worked together and even when it was just the four of them their presence kind of suggested that and like you always felt like Noah was there if that makes sense because they were all such close friends that even if he's not there physically like he was just kind of there in spirit I guess if that makes sense it's not really coming out how I want it to but I just felt like by having Ronan blue Gansey and Adam together Noah's presence was implied and by having Henry there it just kind of felt like he was intruding on this private moment and it really just kind of irked me so I didn't really like the fact that Henry had to be there I wanted it to be the oh geez and just I just wanted it so I don't know it it disappointed me a little bit so those are really the only two spoilery things that I have to talk about but I just kind of wanted to get those off my chest because no one that I'm friends with and like real life really reads the same books as me so I don't have anyone to talk to about it so I think on in review is where I have like spoilery things that I want to talk about I'm gonna start doing that at the end of the video let me know if you guys would like that or if you don't or whatever so yeah if you have read this book which by this point if you're watching the spoilers you should have let me know your thoughts on it and yeah I'll see you guys in the next video bye\n"