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Some Thoughts On: The Raven King

The Raven King (The Raven Cycle #4) Maggie Stiefvater April 26th 2016 Scholastic ******Will probably contain spoilers for this book and the whole series just as a heads up****** I'm not going to try and write a normal review for The Raven King, because quite frankly I don't even know if I'm capable of doing proper reviews any more, and this is not the book or the series where I want to figure that out. That, and my love for this series transcends that of something which I can properly review, as I am completely biased and I *will* fight people about these books. On that note, this is also won't even entirely be about The Raven King on its own. Rather, it's a chance for me to go on and on and on and on and on about how much I love these books and Blue and those darn boys. My biggest fear about The Raven King, as is always the case with final books in a beloved series, was that it wouldn't be a good or fitting ending. I did not need to be worried. Rather than reac...

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Three Years!

Hello! Just thought I'd drop in on this fine Friday the 13th to say that it's now officially been three years since I started this fair old blog. That feels like a really long time for me Usually two years is the point at which I start to give up on things, so I think I can count this blog as a personal success. And I thought I should do something to commemorate it seeing as I completely forgot last year.. Whoops. No giveaways or anything, though, sorry... I would love to be able to give something proper back to all of you lovely people, but I can't. Maybe next year, though! (if I remember...)

So instead, I thought I'd just do a sentimental, Oscar speech-esque thank you post because that seems like the appropriate (and slightly douchey) thing to do.

Thank you to the blogging community, especially the UK lot, for making me feel welcome and at home in the blogosphere, and for not running away if we met in real life (what with my frizzy hair and stupid t-shirts and face and scruffy jeans and awkwardness and overenthusiastic mother). Thanks for not making me feel lame and annoying. It means a lot. Also, you're all really cool, great people, and I feel really lucky to know you :)

Thank you, publishers and publicists, for similar reasons, but also (fairly obviously) for sending me books. I don't know if you quite got the message over the past three years, but I *quite* like books. I don't like to make a big deal of it or anything, but y'know... ;)

Thank you, authors, for writing books that make me want to write about them. Thanks for writing books, full stop. Books change lives. What you do is amazing, whatever kind of books you write. Please don't stop.

Thank you to the beautiful readers of my blog. It's nice to know that people are reading and are at the very least mildly interested in what this 17 year old has to say about books 'n' stuff.

Thank you, Legend of Korra, for premiering your second season on this most auspicious of days.

Well, not only was that cheesy and pretentious, it was also a lot shorter than I thought it would be. In my head, this was going to be a really nice post. Clearly, I didn't really give it as much thought as I should have done. Oh well. 

(But seriously, thank you loads and loads and loads it really means a lot. I never thought that I when I started blogging it would end up meaning this much to me, but it's become a really big part of my life and it's probably one of the better things I've decided to do. I've been through a lot of blogging funks lately, and I don't think that'll stop anytime soon because I've reached that part of my life where I'm probably going to be busy until I, like, retire, but I always come back. Sometimes I think about shutting the whole thing down, but I just can't. It'd be all wrong. So, you know, thanks. Again.)

(also, NEW HARRY POTTER MOVIE WHAT THE WHAT FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM HERE WE COME PLEASE DON'T BE TERRIBLE)

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