Reviewer's Note: This is a review for the audio book, narrated by Will Patton. 
 Full disclosure: this is my first audio book. I am so not an auditory learner and I struggle to pay attention to audio books. Now, I've tried them in the past, but I failed miserably trying to pay attention and had to keep rewinding to the parts that I had missed. Perhaps those audio books didn't have a good narrator, or perhaps the books were simply just dull, but nonetheless I was unable to complete an audio book until today. 
 I decided to try out an audio book because a few days ago I had to do a lot of driving. The radio was annoying me, my iPod playlist was annoying me, and driving in silence was annoying me. Driving a car makes me pretty limited in what I can do for fun (I can't read and drive), so I thought that I would try out an audio book to listen to instead. I wanted to find an audio book of a book I had already read on OverDrive, but none of the books I could think of were available that instant. But on the first page of OverDrive I saw that the audio book for The Raven Boys (TRB) was available. I wasn't too thrilled by the option (I hated Stiefvater's book Shiver and after reading the synopsis for TRB I was fairly certain that I would hate this too), but it was either listen to this or nothing. So I took my chances and ended up being pleasantly surprised. 
 I think a large part of this had to do with the wonderful narrator, Will Patton. He does an impeccable job at keeping the story eerie. I won't lie, at times his narration was over dramatic and I wasn't a big fan of when he tried to make his voice sound really feminine (case in point: Persephone), but overall he was an excellent narrator. He changed his voiced based upon who was speaking and changed the tempo/volume depending on what was occurring in the book. If it was an action scene he would speed his voice up, and would slow his voice down for the spooky scenes. I would totally listen to another book read by Patton again. 
 The nice thing about Stiefvater's book is that the plot is complex enough to keep me engaged while listening to it, but yet simple enough that if I missed a small portion, because I spaced, I didn't have to rewind the audio book. I loved listening to it while I drove, walked to class, got ready in the morning, and before I fell asleep. 
 I like the characters. They are all very intriguing and mysterious without being annoyingly over-mysterious. This book really surprised me. I always thought that it would be one of those popular books that I never read, but now I am very glad that I read TRB. I enjoyed the writing style, pacing, unique cast, mystery, magic, and narrator. I highly recommend that you give it a try! 
 ***TRIGGER WARNINGS: death, murder, domestic abuse, mention of suicide attempt, underage drinking