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The Raven's Tale
By Cat Winters
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Seventeen-year-old Edgar Poe counts down the days until he can escape his foster family—the wealthy Allans of Richmond, Virginia. He hungers for his upcoming life as a student at the prestigious new university, almost as much as he longs to marry his beloved Elmira Royster. However, on the brink of his departure, all his plans go awry when a macabre Muse named Lenore appears to him. Muses are frightful creatures that lead Artists down a path of ruin and disgrace, and no respectable person could possibly understand or accept them. But Lenore steps out of the shadows with one request: “Let them see me!”
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Cat Winters
Cat Winters's debut novel, In the Shadow of Blackbirds, was released to widespread critical acclaim. The novel has been named a finalist for the 2014 Morris Award, a School Library Journal Best Book of 2013, and a Booklist 2013 Top 10 Horror Fiction for Youth. Winters lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and two children.
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Reviews for The Raven's Tale
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was a free summer audio sync book from 2021 and is a fantasy/historical novelization of Edgar Allan Poe. The fantasy part is the "muse" that helps creative people be creative. This book explores the questions that exist around Poe's life and death. Is was okay, not hard to read in anyway and I learned a bit about Poe.Narrators: Michael Crouch, Nicole Wood. The various voices of Poe, his muse, and others. I appreciated the research that the author put into the work.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I just started reading this without having any idea what it was really about and I was clueless of what was going on for awhile. The story follows Edgar Allen Poe's real life around his late adolescence and early adulthood. The author added the real characters, places and events from his life. So this story is somewhat biographical but a fantasy at the same time. Poe's muse is gothic creature trying to help him find his true self as a poet while is adopted father is trying to do anything to keep him from it. Some poetry is woven in the story. The author does a great job of giving that Poe feeling. I enjoyed this.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I've had Winters on my radar for a while because I've heard such great things about her books. I went into The Raven's Tale expecting atmospheric writing and was not disappointed. I love Edgar Allen Poe and thought this was a nice nod/tribute to him, but I wasn't quite sucked into the novel as much as I hoped I'd be. Still, a good book for fans of YA historical fiction and Gothic romances.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Seventeen-year-old Edgar Poe counts down the days until he can escape his foster family, the wealthy Allans of Richmond, Virginia. He hungers for his upcoming life as a student at the prestigious new university, almost as much as he longs to marry his beloved Elmira Royster. However, on the brink of his departure, all his plans go awry when a macabre Muse named Lenore appears to him. Muses are frightful creatures that lead Artists down a path of ruin and disgrace, and no respectable person could possibly understand or accept them. But Lenore steps out of the shadows with one request: "Let them see me!"
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I have loved most of Cat Winters books and was incredibly excited to see what she would do with a book about Edgar Allan Poe. This ended up being a bit disappointing to me. While it was a neat idea, it was honestly kind of boring. There is a lot of flowery language but not much of a story here.Edgar Poe is constantly pulled between the demands of his art and the demands of his foster father. He desperately wants to attend University and his foster father has agreed to send him..for now. When Poe’s muse takes on human form she ends up causing a number of issues for him that lead him down a dark path.I did enjoy the idea of an artist’s muse being a living/tangible thing; basically the human embodiment of their artistic talent. Lenore is all of Poe’s dark tendencies and urges wrapped into one disturbing girl. Eventually another muse shows up who fights with Lenore over Poe and this muse is the embodiment of Poe’s ability for satire. Unfortunately this story was both too much and not enough for me. Having the second muse enter the scene was distracting and this second muse was just not very well developed (I can’t even remember his name). It was just too much and really defocused the story. I also felt like Lenore was not enough. She just wasn’t dark enough, committed enough, and didn’t feel passionate and developed enough. The whole thing ended up being a bit of a muddle.If you look back at what actually happened in this book it’s really not all that much. It was fairly boring to read, the only bright spots being the poetry excerpts throughout. I also enjoyed the afterward that talked about Edgar Poe’s actual history.Overall this was a disappointing read for me; it’s okay but feel very short of my expectations. The story is just too slow, boring, and a bit muddled. You don’t get a lot of story and the muses weren’t quite as intense as they should have been. This is one of the weaker Cat Winters books I have read. I started reading it with a huge amount of enthusiasm and by the end just wanted it to be over.