The Raven Boys Themes

The most iconic groups of friends often come in fours: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Ghostbusters, and… the raven boys? In The Raven Boys, it's clear that Gansey's foursome of friends (Ga...

Oh, family—you can't live with 'em, and you can't live without 'em. Is there any teenager in the world who doesn't have some kind of familial conflict? If the characters from The Raven Boys are r...

In The Raven Boys, all of the main characters have their own specific places they call home—for good and for bad. Blue has grown up in a big house filled with psychics her whole life, and while i...

Since many of the characters are filthy rich in The Raven Boys, it follows that there's a lot of jealousy and bad blood going around. Even though Adam would do absolutely anything for his buddiesâ€...

In The Raven Boys, Blue could have taken the easy road and listened to her mother and stayed away from the raven boys. After all, Maura is a Grade A psychic, and it's probably a good idea to listen...

Considering Blue has grown up in house full of bona fide psychics, it makes sense that she believes in fate—at least a little bit. In The Raven Boys, she's spent her whole life hearing that if sh...

The specter of death hangs over the characters in The Raven Boys from the first chapter, when we hear that Blue's true love is destined to die. And the whole death angle just gets increasingly prom...

The Raven Boys is filled to the brim with supernatural phenomena, including ghosts, ley lines, and creepy rituals. Gansey's hunt for the ley lines and the buried Welsh king, Glendower, is punctuate...

The friends in The Raven Boys all go on the adventure of a lifetime together to find the place where Glendower is buried. Even with the responsibilities of school, work, and family, the teens find...

In The Raven Boys, there is a clear class difference between the residents of Henrietta, Virginia. Blue comes from the normal side of town—she goes to public school, works as a waitress and dog w...