{"id":36884,"date":"2019-08-05T06:30:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T18:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=36884"},"modified":"2019-08-02T14:57:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T02:57:42","slug":"this-month-on-supernatural-underground-year-of-romance-in-fantasy-6-friends-and-lovers-in-maggie-stiefvaters-the-raven-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2019\/08\/05\/this-month-on-supernatural-underground-year-of-romance-in-fantasy-6-friends-and-lovers-in-maggie-stiefvaters-the-raven-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"This Month On Supernatural Underground: Year of Romance in Fantasy #6 &#8212; Friends and Lovers in Maggie Stiefvater&#8217;s &#8220;The Raven Boys&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-28238 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Supelogo_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Supelogo_2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Supelogo_2.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Over on <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supernatural Underground<\/a>, I clicked over into August with another Year of Romance (#YoR) in Fantasy Fiction (#RIFF) post&#8212;this month featuring Maggie Stiefvater&#8217;s <strong><em>The Raven Boys<\/em> <\/strong>quartet.<\/p>\n<p>(Although strictly speaking, the post focuses chiefly on Book #1, the titular <strong><em>The Raven Boys<\/em><\/strong>, and #2 <strong><em>The Dream Thieves<\/em><\/strong>.)<\/p>\n<p>The theme of the post, and a major aspect of the books, is &#8220;friends and lovers&#8221;, i.e. when love and pairing off occurs within a group of friends.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-32751\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Dream-Thieves-Cover-99x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Dream-Thieves-Cover-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Dream-Thieves-Cover-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Dream-Thieves-Cover.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 99px) 100vw, 99px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-36887\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/The-Raven-Boys-99x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/The-Raven-Boys-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/The-Raven-Boys-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/The-Raven-Boys.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 99px) 100vw, 99px\" \/>Keen to find out more? Then head on over to read by clicking on:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/romance-in-fantasy-fiction-friends-and.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Romance in Fantasy Fiction: Friends and Lovers, Maggie Stiefvater&#8217;s <em>The Raven Boys<\/em>-style<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also begun listing the accumulated posts in the #YoR #RIFF series. You&#8217;ll find the links at the end of the current post. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on Supernatural Underground, I clicked over into August with another Year of Romance (#YoR) in Fantasy Fiction (#RIFF) post&#8212;this month featuring Maggie Stiefvater&#8217;s The Raven Boys quartet. (Although strictly speaking, the post focuses chiefly on Book #1, the titular The Raven Boys, and #2 The Dream Thieves.) The theme of the post, and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36888,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36884\/revisions\/36888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}