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All the Crooked Saints Paperback – August 28, 2018
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- Reading age12 years and up
- Print length320 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level7 - 12
- Lexile measure980L
- Dimensions5.2 x 0.7 x 8 inches
- PublisherScholastic Press
- Publication dateAugust 28, 2018
- ISBN-100545930812
- ISBN-13978-0545930819
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- Publisher : Scholastic Press; Reprint edition (August 28, 2018)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0545930812
- ISBN-13 : 978-0545930819
- Reading age : 12 years and up
- Lexile measure : 980L
- Grade level : 7 - 12
- Item Weight : 8.3 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.2 x 0.7 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #584,100 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #846 in Teen & Young Adult Contemporary Fantasy
- #1,118 in Teen & Young Adult Friendship Fiction
- #1,522 in Teen & Young Adult Coming of Age Fantasy
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About the author

Maggie Stiefvater is the New York Times bestselling author of the Shiver trilogy, the Raven Cycle, and The Scorpio Races, among dozens of other YA fantasy novels. Her books have sold over five million copies around the world. She lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with her husband and their two children.
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Customers find the storytelling style wonderful and enthralling. They praise the writing style as delicious, lyrical, and flawless. The book is described as inspiring and deeply human. Readers enjoy the memorable characters and their well-developed character arcs. They appreciate the magic system and interesting concept. However, some found the book hard to read and difficult to feel invested in.
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Customers enjoy the storytelling style. They find the book has a wonderful atmosphere of a tall tale or even Roald Dahl-style, and it's a beautiful story about discovering and rediscovering our own human needs. The stories are inspiring and enthralling, with unpredictable and unique elements. Readers appreciate the good character development and interesting world.
"...I loved the miracles, hope, love, owls and rooster of this story...." Read more
"...don’t think I got it all, but by the time I finished, I was satisfied with the story and took a lot of good things from it...." Read more
"I cannot deny that this is an engaging story once you get into it...." Read more
"...The Raven books are great - beautifully written and engaging, but I did feel that plot-wise it was appropriately a bit more targeted to someone..." Read more
Customers enjoy the writing style. They praise the lyrical prose and vivid descriptions. The author writes flawlessly and has a playful, whimsical style. Overall, readers appreciate the engaging writing and character development.
"...It is so well written. I marked a large stack of quotes from this book, because I just love how Stiefvater words things...." Read more
"...It picked up about halfway thru. I liked the characters, I liked Stiefvater’s writing style, the setting was excellent, the imagination was beautiful..." Read more
"...The prose has a playful, whimsical style and while it still retains Stiefvater's distinctive voice, it was a little more wry and fanciful than most..." Read more
"...The Raven books are great - beautifully written and engaging, but I did feel that plot-wise it was appropriately a bit more targeted to someone..." Read more
Customers find the book inspiring and enthralling. They describe it as deeply human, sensitive, funny, and quirky. The story explores discovering and rediscovering one's own human needs through sharing stories. It has a wonderful compassion and sense of humanity that readers appreciate. Readers find it a guidebook to personal growth with many underlying messages about faith, redemption, and tackling the dark parts of life.
"...All the Crooked Saints more for its heart than anything else: it's a very kind, very gentle book, but it doesn't shy back from making it's point...." Read more
"...AtCS has a wonderful compassion and sense of humanity that writers of magical realism often lose...." Read more
"...It is about healing through sharing of stories and acceptance...." Read more
"...as always, Maggie Stiefvater writes beautifully, giving us many quotable words to inspire and delight!" Read more
Customers enjoy the book's character development. They find the characters memorable and likable. The author introduces them succinctly in just a couple quick chapters. The character arcs spin beautifully and subtly into each other.
"Maggie Stiefvater has a fantastic ability to create interesting characters and then slowly making you love them...." Read more
"...It picked up about halfway thru. I liked the characters, I liked Stiefvater’s writing style, the setting was excellent, the imagination was beautiful..." Read more
"...longer or a little more emotionally driven, I did find most of them likable, and I enjoyed reading about them...." Read more
"...Maggie Stiefvater always writes interesting characters that draw the reader in, and blended with the fascinating and often magical world, makes for..." Read more
Customers enjoy the book's magic system and world. They appreciate the miracles, hope, love, owls, and rooster. The writing is decent and the concept is interesting.
"...This book is another amazing example of that. I loved the miracles, hope, love, owls and rooster of this story...." Read more
"...draw the reader in, and blended with the fascinating and often magical world, makes for a story that is very difficult to put down...." Read more
"...But this was beautifully written!! I loved the magic system in it...." Read more
"...It is a book full of hope, love, and miracles, all things I need right now. Maybe we all do." Read more
Customers find the humor in the book original and fun.
"...Humorous, original, and fun." Read more
"...An enjoyable experience. Deeply human, sensitive, funny, quirky. Engaging and memorable characters. I’m half-way through my second reading." Read more
"Didn’t understand it at first but it quickly became one of the funnest things I’ve read...." Read more
Customers find the book difficult to read and not engaging. They say it takes a long time to finish and that it's hard to feel invested in the characters' outcomes. The book is relatively short, but the character arcs spin beautifully.
"...And with a beautiful cover! I’ll admit that this book started very slowly for me...." Read more
"...Although the book is relatively short, the character arcs spin beautifully and subtly into each other...." Read more
"...Con: it took me more than a year to read...." Read more
"...all the way, but the story was a bit too dragged out, which made it hard to read. I prefer the Raven Cycle, which is my all-time favorite." Read more
Customers find the context lacking and confusing. They say the philosophical side is vague and tiring after a few pages.
"...It was definitely more on the philosophical side, but very vague...." Read more
"...jammed in the middle, and after a few pages it gets tiring and confusing. I love Stiefvater and her unique writing but she lost me on this one...." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2017Maggie Stiefvater has a fantastic ability to create interesting characters and then slowly making you love them. This book is another amazing example of that. I loved the miracles, hope, love, owls and rooster of this story. It was set in a place that I don't relate too with beliefs that are not mine but by the end of the book I felt like they could be. It is so well written.
I marked a large stack of quotes from this book, because I just love how Stiefvater words things. Here are a few of my favorites.
"No one wanted to see their darkness made manifest, but the reality was it could not be fought until you saw its shape."
"Pete put his voice right by Beatriz's ear so that his breath warmed her skin and he began to sing. It has nothing extravagant, just Patsy Cline sung in his low and uneven voice, and they began to dance. It was very quiet. No one else would have seen it if not for the desert. But when the desert heard Pete Wyatt singing a love song, it took notice. The desert loved him, after all, and wanted him happy."
"He remained as calm as he possibly could, so calm the rooster would be able to feel this serenity and adopt it for itself, or at the very least, to prevent anger from turning to fear."
"She found it depressing, how fast memories were replaced by rumors. Tragedy left behind such subtle artifacts."
"Humans are drawn to hope as owls are drawn to miracles. It only takes the suggestion of it to stir them up and the eagerness lingers for a while even when all traces of it are gone."
- Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2018Another Christmas book! And with a beautiful cover! I’ll admit that this book started very slowly for me. To be fair, I was about 4 hours into an 8-hour flight thru the night, but it was still slow. I was even considering DNF-ing it, but I decided to stick with it. I am glad I did, but I also don’t think I’ll ever read this book again. It was definitely more on the philosophical side, but very vague. I had to try to clamp down on my inner shallowness to make sure I understood everything. I still don’t think I got it all, but by the time I finished, I was satisfied with the story and took a lot of good things from it. It picked up about halfway thru. I liked the characters, I liked Stiefvater’s writing style, the setting was excellent, the imagination was beautiful. I liked the message that everyone has darkness inside them, nobody is perfect. There was a selflessness that came thru from the Soria family that I really loved. And if everyone could be like Pete Wyatt, I think most of the problems of the world wouldn’t exist! Overall, I enjoyed this book, but I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone. Definitely for the more advanced reader.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2023The feel I got from this book was a curious mix of Mad Men of the 1960s, Paulo Coelho philosophical, Encanto type of magic and…Pixar’s Cars naivete. Yeah, don’t laugh. Read it and see.
For generations, the Soria family are miracle workers. Literally. They perform miracles in Bicho Raro, Colorado and pilgrims flock there to receive their miracles. But everything comes with a price. You can’t interfere with miracles or your darkness gets you. When Pete and Tony arrive in town, one in search of a job and a truck and the other a burnout DJ, things starts chaning for the Sorias.
I’m glad I read the book - it turned beautiful and angsty and hopeful around the 50% mark, so keep reading through the first 100pages. The storytelling & philosophical take on miracles and human lives reminded me of Coelho a bit, but it’s a unique book that blends heartache with hope its main message being that miracle workers and saints need to sort themselves out, too.
I like how for every character the author listed what they wanted most and what they feared. I liked how Danile, the Saint was a hellion growing up. I liked the strange and wonderful ways people’s miracles manifested - someone was turned a giant and someone else parroted everything back at people - until they resolved whatever it was they needed to come to terms with.
Recommended if you love Coleho’s books, books about miracles and enchanting family drama sagas of the Encanto and Coco.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2017I wasn't sure what to expect from this book when I started it. The prose has a playful, whimsical style and while it still retains Stiefvater's distinctive voice, it was a little more wry and fanciful than most of her other books. Usually I find this kind of style rather off-putting; I was prepared for this book to be one the one of Stiefvater's I just didn't like very much. In the end, it surprised me, though.
While I never felt like we really get the chance to know the characters here like we might if the book were longer or a little more emotionally driven, I did find most of them likable, and I enjoyed reading about them. Beatriz especially was a surprising breath of fresh air; I would love to see more ya characters like her. The plot, though a bit meandering, comes to a fairly satisfying, if bizarre resolution (this is, I think, to be expected from Stiefvater's books, and it's one of the things I like about them). There's a little bit of magic everywhere in the book; it's interwoven with the setting in clever, fantastic ways. Overall, I enjoyed All the Crooked Saints more for its heart than anything else: it's a very kind, very gentle book, but it doesn't shy back from making it's point. We've all got a little darkness in us, and even though we may need help to deal with that, it's still, ultimately, up to us to make the decision to do so.
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Thaís FrançaReviewed in Brazil on November 3, 2023
4.0 out of 5 stars Um pouco convoluto, mas vale à pena
Sou já fã da autora tem algum tempo, e estava bem animada para poder ler esse livro.
Os personagens são incríveis e a magia que permeia toda a história - e todas as histórias no meio - é aconchegante e assustadora. O livro é quintessencialmente humano, em suas formas mais feias e belas. Mas, vou admitir, a história dobra-se sobre si mesma mais do que eu gostaria. Parece que tinha muito a dizer, e detalhes que poderiam ser explorados como contos - sobretudo nos dias de hoje com publicações digitais - deixaram o texto empapupaçado em alguns pontos. Mas, se for o seu estilo, acho que talvez seja até um ponto alto ao invés de algo a criticar
- Amanda KarshReviewed in Canada on September 16, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars Poetic science fictional
Always poetic verse. This one will stay with you.
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Ceci GarciaReviewed in Mexico on April 23, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars Libro hermoso!
Compre este libro en una oferta por solo $139
Y ¡wow! la portada es bellisima,de un material suave y brilloso.
En cuanto a la historia es poco convencional y magico.
No es lo mejor de la autora,pero si haz leido a la autora antes,no creo que te decepciones.
- Karla StarbornReviewed in Germany on November 22, 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars A real gem!
Maggie has done it again. I loved the Raven Cycle (and still love it). She has a way with words that makes me want to keep on reading. This story was a little odd, but in the nice way. An interesting cast of characters with their own inner battles, a great and compelling scenario and a beautiful story about redemption. Great book. Humorous, inspiring and fantastically odd.
- J. BarberReviewed in the United Kingdom on October 17, 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars A lovely little story
I'm always worried after loving a book series that I won't love the next one the Author releases. So I go in timidly into reading and try not to expect as good a book.
Well for me this book was even better than her Raven cycle series. As good as the first book is in that series, its the second book that in that series that truly shines. This doesn't need a second book it's a perfect jewel all on its own.
I loved how the magical realism is incorporated into the story. I feel so real like I could take a trip there to have my miracle.
Can't wait to read what Stiefvater beings out next.