How do a piece of crap like this get published? What a waste of tree. 

This book is written by a Christian liar. Only a liar could managed to pretend that Christians majority are not enjoying special privileges, special rights and a whole lot of goodies. 

What Christians are now getting less power to do, is to use their special religious eight to do harm. Christians are so used to be horrible to ither people they din't like, athiests, gays, Jews, women, and now the people being picked on are fighting back.

If Christians are modelling their behavior after Jesus, then Jesus must one mother fucking jerk.

life is too short to be wasted on horrible books. Skip this one and read something else.

I am afraid to read The Raven King. I was one of the lucky few whose pre-order had shipped out early - who people were threatening (don't you dare release spoilers!) and begging (release spoilers! I can't wait). By this account, I should've already finished the book, especially because spoilers are out there and I don't want to be spoiled. I've mentioned my love for The Raven Cycle multiple times, and it was one of my most anticipated books of the year. Yet I have not finished the book. I am afraid.

Do you ever get like this? Where a book can be so hyped and your expectations so large that suddenly you don't even feel like reading the book anymore? I'm on page 84, I believe, and that was all good and I was still excited. But then I started to embrace the bad habits-- I started to skim ahead, I looked at the ending. That's not me saying "bad book" but rather a part of that fear. What will the book do? I love Maggie's writing and I had to slap myself out of that one because hey, skimming is not enjoying the writing in the same way. It's a strange situation. I don't want to not read the book - it'll sit on the shelves and god knows when I'll get to it later, if I don't get it to now. Yet reading now means some part of the experience might be ruined -- when you're not even sure you want to read at the time because you've built the book up, why read it?

So I turn to you my fellow readers. What can I do now? Do you have any tips to combat the pressure of hyped books and any tips to get back into the reading experience and the experience of The Raven Cycle? I don't think I'll have the time to reread the previous novels, and the recaps aren't the same, but...? Help!

My thoughts on books with huge amounts of hype. 

...but dragged down by almost the same things. Also, stereotypes.