Have you ever fallen in love of a character, but not of his story? Well, the Raven Boys is a great example of this. 
 I've read a lot of books about magic. And not the magic of the YA stories, the "real" one (alchemy, hermetism, hoodoo, etc...) and I expected to be surprised by the Raven Boys with something original, some kind of new and interesting magic (invented by te author, obviously), but I only got a bunch of pages about a mixed world that I never understood very well (and actually, there are more interesting ways of adivination than tarot). I just found it a little bit boring, because I was expecting so much about this. Maybe, that was my mistake. 
 Another thing that I disliked, was the love triangle. It's me, I admit it. I don't like love triangles, it's something that I always find unnecesary and irritant, but the problem is that I liked Adam a lot, and I loved the great friendship that he had with Gansey, and seeing that this friendship could be ruined ONLY because they like the same girl, is totally stupid and cliche, and personally, I find it more annoying than dramatic. 
 I really wanted to give it only 2 stars. But as a good point, the story of Noah was really interesting, even when we had to get through a lot of pages to know it. And then, RONAN. Ronan was, by far, the best part of this book and the only reason of why I want to read the second one. 
 It's more like a 2.5 stars, but...