This is of course not the book’s fault and while I did not particularly enjoy the romances (more on that in a second), I just thought I’d mention it in case anybody else also got queer vibes from The Ravens! It is not! Maybe I just associate witches with sapphic stories so I was slightly disappointed when I found out that the main romances are straight. The witches’ magic is based on tarot cards and as a tarot reader myself it was fun to see the cards used as the basis for various spells!įor some reason, I assumed this book was queer, specifically sapphic. I especially appreciated getting to read about characters who are at college and thus a bit closer to my own age. The setting and magic system immediately drew me in. (Nov.I love anything witchy and magical, so my love for The Ravens shouldn’t be a surprise. Though the series starter’s conclusion drags, wonderful worldbuilding, well-executed plotting, and page-turning surprises create the feel of a bingeworthy TV show, keeping readers engaged in Vivi’s and Scarlett’s alternating narrations. Morgan ( The 100) and Paige (the Dorothy Must Die series) blend the cloistered atmosphere of The Magicians with the Southern cattiness of The Belles, adding pops of giddy magic-“glamouring” the sorority house into a 1920s speakeasy-along the way. When a banished Raven, Gwen, reappears and a sorority sister is kidnapped, Scarlett and Vivi work to defeat the evil threatening to expose their coven to the college and the world. For Vivi’s sorority big sister, Scarlett Winter, a water-wielding Cup who is Black, junior year means balancing her family’s impossible expectations, boyfriend Mason’s waning interest, and a secret that could destroy her entire future. But alongside the intense sisterhood, Vivi learns that she’s a Pentacle, one of four types of elemental witches with fierce earth-commanding powers. When 18-year-old freshman Vivian Devereaux, who is white, pledges elite Kappa Rho Nu, known as the Ravens, at Savannah’s Westerly College, she makes friends for the first time after a life of frequent moves with her tarot reader mother.
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