Raven Boys / Maggie Stiefvater / 409 pages / Bram Stoker Award Nominee Challenge

This is the first book of the quartet that will comprise the Raven Cycle.  We meet sixteen year old Blue Sargent who comes from a family of psychics but is not psychic herself.  She does possess a most unusual gift, however.  She amplifies the gifts/energies of others.  Her mother predicted that when she kisses her first true love, he will die.  This, of course, makes her reluctant to do so.  When she meets Gansey, Adam, Ronan, and Noah, the Raven Boys from the prestigious Aglionby Academy, she is sorely tempted.  The Raven Boys, and Gansey especially, are in search of ley, or energy lines, in an attempt to awaken the legendary sleeping king of Owen, Glendower.  Someone else is also searching, someone quite unexpected. ...And, what is Noah's secret?  "This fantasy rises to the level of serious literature leaving the  reader hungering for more."