The Raven King
core novel 2016 The Raven Cycle
Record
| First published | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.25 (163,855 ratings, collected 2026-08-30) |
| Page count | 439 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780545424981 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
The Raven King is the fourth and final novel of the original Raven Cycle quartet and continues Blue and her friends' long search for the sleeping Welsh king Glendower along Henrietta's ley line. With Colin Greenmantle's wife Piper now also hunting the same magic and willing to go to dangerous lengths to get it, the group's investigation of Cabeswater and the forces tied to it becomes increasingly perilous. As old threats converge and new supernatural dangers surface in the town, Blue, Gansey, Ronan, Adam and Noah are pushed toward the culmination of the quest that has driven the series, even as the personal stakes between them, including the fate Blue was warned about at the very start, grow harder to avoid.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Raven Cycle
- Series: The Raven Cycle core; position 4 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Notes
- From the series record (The Raven Cycle): The original quartet following Blue Sargent and the Raven Boys' search for a sleeping Welsh king.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Raven Cycle: position 4 of 4: previous Blue Lily, Lily Blue (2014)
- Internal chronology, within The Raven Cycle: position 4 of 7: previous Blue Lily, Lily Blue (2014) · next Call Down the Hawk (2019)
Sources
← The Raven Cycle dossier · All universes
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