The Raven Boys Graphic Novel, by Maggie Stiefvater

There is a great joy in getting to re-read a book you loved in a new light, and Maggie Stiefvater manages to completly recapture the magic of first reading The Raven Boys with this graphic novel adaption.

From the blurb;

'Born into a family of psychics.

'Blue Sargent has always felt ordinary. She doesn't share the family gift - and she's not sure that she wants to, given the dire warning she's been given about her own fate: that her kiss will kill her true love.

'Enter Gansey. A rich 'Raven Boy' from Aglionby, the town's all-boys private school. Blue has always avoided Raven Boys - their wealth, their privalage, their trouble. But when Gansey asks her to join him and three friends on a hunt for an ancient king sleeping beneath the mountains of their quiet Virginia town, she doesn't hesitate.

'But they arn't the only ones searching.

'Soon, they find themselves in a strange and shifting world woven into their own - a world of murder, magic and tangled fates...'

Adapted by Stephanie Williams and illustrated by Sas Milledge, Maggie Stiefvater's The Raven Boys is bought to beautiful, colourful, life in a way that reignites the suprises, plot twists, and excitment of reading the original novel for the first time.

Milledge's illustrations breath life into the characters and world of The Raven Boys, making plot points clearer with her careful translation of Stiefvater's written word into the comic style artwork of this graphic novel.

Meanwhile Williams translates the story perfectly, allowing Milledge's artwork to take on the complex descriptive nature of this novel and focusing the text on the key aspects of the plot.

For those who want to re-read The Raven Boys and get the same level of excitment and passion from the story as they did the first time the graphic novel is the perfect way to reclaim that feeling. While those who are new to the series may find that this graphic novel offers a vibrant access into Stiefvaters exciting world.

Fans of the graphic novel will be thrilled to learn that the novels will continue to be adapted, with the second book in the series coming to life in graphic form this year [2026].

We give The Raven Boys Graphic Novel Five Stars

First published in Great Britain by Penguin Books 2025

ISBN - 978-0-241-76224-0 Hardback Cover Price - £25.00