All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater

Three cousins who are members of an unusual family that possesses the ability to perform miracles are repeatedly sought out for their gifts while they struggle to establish free lives for themselves and navigate the fallout from miracles that happen in ways other than anticipated.

DNF at 100 pages. The writing was repetitive and trying to be whimsical but failing. After reading two full series from Steivfater, this just reads like a failed experiment in writing style. Stay in your lane.

2.5 Stars

Book 9 complete for O.W.L.'s 2019 Herbology- Plant on the cover

Pros:
- The writing style of this was superb. I loved the narrator and how he was telling everyone's stories. I listened to the audiobook and I definitely got Jane the Virgin vibes and I enjoyed the way the story was told.

Cons:
- There was not really a plot to this. It definitely focused on telling the stories of the three main characters and those around them. However, I did not feel like we were working toward anything or solving something. It was an odd feeling since I expect some kind of adventure or story with a book.
- I did not connect with the characters at all. Yes they had interesting lives and their stories were entertaining, but there was nothing that made me connect with them and really care about their story and what would happen to them.

Overall, this was a very middle of the road book. There was nothing overtly wrong about it, but there was nothing great either. There was nothing that made me want to know what was going to happen. I think if I had not read this for my O.W.L.'s it would have taken me much longer to read this. Every time I put it down, it was not like I had to pick up again right away.

More like 4.5. it took a bit to get into it partly because it was my first audio book and secondly it was a different kind of writing style then what I normally read, but once I was in I was invested. Not sure how I would describe this one, its multiple points of view, about a family of Saints and the Pilgrims who seek them out and its also about love and different ways you show it and about fears and hopes. If you give it a try I recommend the audiobook I thought the narrator fit perfectly.

“It could take forever to learn yourself.”

“All the Crooked Saints” was the Miracle I was wishing the Sorias to perform on me.

When the magic and complexity of Maggie's characters meet a small town in the Colorado region and the magic realism of Gabriel García Márquez, there is no way anything bad could happen.

I had already been in love with Maggie's writing since the Raven Boys saga, but her storytelling definitely found another level as she described the wilderness surrounding Bicho Raro and the miracles surrounded by owls that haunted and enchanted the Sorias.

“All the Crooked Saints” is a deep story, with a taste of magic, and a wonderful lesson in self-knowledge, music and miracles. There's no way not to fall in love with Maggie's dual characters, just as there's no way not to feel represented by at least one of the Sorias.

I highly recommend it for all lovers of magic, as well as for all those who find themselves lost and desolate under a gray cloud that just rains.