This was a good book. I enjoyed it. What I feel let it down was knowing early on the death sentence with Gansey. There was no mystery left in her relationships with the boys. It's fairly easy to predict, in a general fashion, how things are going to go down there. For example, it would have been more fun predicting who was going to be her 'true love', rather than being told. 
 The other issue I had was a problem I found with Maggie Stiefvater's The Wolves of Mercy Falls series. The story progression is very slow with a lot of words but little action. While this may actually be appealing to some since it changes the feel of the novels and creates a mysterious tension, I'm a little impatient. 
 I want to read the next book since I did like The Raven Boys and I want to see where Maggie goes with Ronan. His story really interests me.