'The Ravens' is the first book in 'The Ravens' series by Kass Morgan. It is a book about a sorority in college, which looks normal from the outside, but beneath the veil, it is home to witches with magical powers. The Ravens are a powerful coven of witches who recruits new witches with high potential to be a part of this coven. The story is told from 2 main POVs: Scarlet, a senior witch in the sorority, and Vivi, a freshman & a newer edition to the coven. Scarlet is struggling with a long-kept secret that's killing her and Vivi is struggling to stay away from her home and her mother, and try to redefine her life and find a place where she belongs. While these recruitments are going on, something strange starts happening in the sorority house, and the witches find themselves surrounded by this unknown danger.
I do love a good witch coven story. You say witches, and I'm all in.! But this book didn’t work for me. It felt like a cliche 90’s or early 2000’s kind of witch movie. You have a girl (Vivi) who doesn’t know she is a witch. Her mom who’s trying to hide some dark secret and the fact that she is a witch, to save her 😒
Then she joins a sorority, which is basically a coven, that helps her find her true identity. Throughout you find some mean bitches (some mean girls who aren’t so mean after all). The senior ones have a catfight going on to be the next leader and they are using their authority to test and bully the freshers (Cliche..!)
Then there's a cute handsome boy who is extraordinarily handsome and is the boyfriend to the only girl (Scarlet), who hates our main character Vivi (of course). Apart from being popular and handsome,he is a nerd and all-in for cute, nice & naive girls ..... Like seriously.! Of course, we have a chemistry between him and the naive-nice freshman Vivi. Could this be any more Cliche.!?
The coven is in an unseen unknown danger which they all fight as ‘sisters’ whilst trying to hide their identity and the fact that magic exists from the real world.! The villain will turn out to be someone you never have imagined (who did it for the right purpose) and everything is good at the end (almost).
It’s basically a witchy chick flick for me. I wouldn’t say I absolutely hated it, but there wasn’t much surprise element and I would rather watch a 3-hour movie like this than read it. I am definitely not picking up the second book in the series.