
(how to be free, how to be happy, how to be a friend, how to make your life matter) Mostly what they are all looking for is How To Be. Everyone else - Adam Parrish, who’s trying to be someone different and Ronan Lynch, who’s looking for true things in a world full of liars and Blue Sargent, the only non-psychic in a house full of psychics, who desperately wants something more - finds “looking for a Welsh king” to be a viable means of also searching for what they do want, so they are along for the ride.

One of our protagonists, Richard Campbell Gansey III, 1 is looking for a Welsh king. Or more specifically, how to be a person when your world as it stands is not - is nowhere near - enough. The Raven Cycle is about figuring out how to be a person. I mainly want to tell you what I love so much about this book and this series.

I will clearly mark the end of the non-spoiler-y part of the post, so that you can bail before I start shrieking about specific, spoilery things.

The first part of this post will not contain spoilers for The Raven King, or indeed for any book in this series.
