The truth was that until he’d walked in the door, she’d forgotten that they had arranged a call to talk about Gansey and Glendower. She fetched the pizza and sat opposite Adam as he inhaled it as politely as possible. “What is the actual deal with you and Henry Cheng? And do you want some pizza? Someone placed a wrong order and we have extras.” In a Venn diagram where one circle held the words toga party and one held the words Henry Cheng, Gansey might possibly end up where they intersected. “I’m not going to a party at Henry Cheng’s, no.” Are you?”ĭisdain dripped from Adam’s voice. He flicked his fingers irritably against one of the damp places on his sleeve. Uh, phys ed and a scientific method extracurricular.”īlue walked her broom over to his table. “I remembered I had Weights and Discovery after school and didn’t want you to miss me. Ages 14 up.Adam slid into a chair and touched his left eyelid cautiously. The playful, imaginative force of Stiefvater's writing works its magic once again, and most readers will finish this saga not with regret or disappointment but with hope. Despite Stiefvater's use of repeating phrases ("Depending on where you began the story, it was about.") to create an air of finality and heighten the mythic scope of Gansey's quest, the path to what readers have always known was coming is swirling, chaotic, and unpredictable, drawing in robotic bees, real wasps, a cloven-hooved girl, a terrifically powerful demon, tree spirits, fast cars, and a couple of eagerly anticipated kisses. The search for that king and the fact that Gansey is supposed to die this year, probably from a kiss from Blue has hung over each novel, and it all comes to a head now. "What a strange constellation they all were." Such is Richard Gansey's assessment of the teenage magical dreamers, psychic amplifiers, scryers, and ghosts who have been his closest companions in his efforts to find the sleeping Welsh king Glendower over the previous three books of the Raven Cycle.
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