300 Fox Way Holiday Piece

The Raven Cycle #0.3

by Maggie Stiefvater

A peek into the holiday festivities at 300 Fox Way.

We asked Maggie Stiefvater to give us a peek into the scene at 300 Fox Way during the holidays, and what we got back was nothing less than amazing! Read the full bonus Raven Cycle scene!

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Short Stories, Paranormal, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Novella

2 pages, ebook

First published December 9, 2014

About the author

New York Times bestselling author of The Shiver Trilogy, The Raven Cycle, and The Scorpio Races. Artist. Driver of things with wheels. Avid reader.

Maggie Stiefvater plays several musical instruments (most infamously, the bagpipes) and makes art in several media (most generally, colored pencils).

She lives in Virginia with her husband, their two children, many dogs, a bunch of fainting goats, and an irascible tuner car.

Reviews

[Virginia Ronan ♥ Herondale ♥ · Rating 4 out of 5]

"What were you looking at?” She was shivering, hungry, ready for bed even as the sun glinted newly at her through the glass door to the backyard.
“Everything,” Persephone answered, selecting a very cold and withered piece of okra to take with her. “And letting it look at us.”

I love Maura, Calla and Persephone!
Those three women are just amazing! <333

My only complaint:
I wish this would have been longer! XD

[emma · Rating 3 out of 5]

Truly I feel bad even marking this as read because it's straight up two pages long, and even that feels generous, but:

- I read it, and also
- I will read literally anything in this series, even if
- Gansey is never mentioned, because
- I still like Blue and Maura and Persephone and Calla and 300 Fox Way and Blue's room with her chili-pepper lights enough to read even an utterly pointless 2-pager about any and all of them.

[Olivia-Savannah · Rating 2 out of 5]

I love reading snippets contributing to a series or adding more insight, but really - this added nothing at all. It was just a scene of everyday life. Yes, atmosphere and setting. However, it was so short and well, meaningless :/

[Robin (Bridge Four) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Too short :(

I love the ladies at 300 fox way and desperately wanted more than two pages of them. But I was happy to see how the gaggle of women celebrated solstice.

[Roobie · Rating 4 out of 5]

⭐️4.5 stars⭐️

"What were you looking at?"

"Everything. And letting it look at us."

[C. (Don't blank click my reviews, comment please! · Rating 3 out of 5]

I must be the last reader to join Maggie Stiefvater’s staggeringly well attended party. I bought trade paperbacks at charity events years ago and discerned the various series to which they belong. Everyone can see that her storylines and covers look marvellous. Fantasy steps outside my most familiar provinces of reading so I have reserved these novels a long while. Now that writing tiny stories for on-line perusal is common, her Christmas scenes were an easy way for me to sample Maggie’s writing. Short tales traditionally precede full novels and theoretically possess independent timelines suitable for new readers.

It seldom find that earlier timetables furnish comprehensive content for the uninitiated, nor that brief pieces are up to the usual calibre of an author’s writing and story-building. I must read the novels to immerse in these well-loved fictional worlds. Logically, we are preceding the action of the novels but these vignettes comprise one or a few scenes. They can only be coloured into a finished story spectrum in the imagination, by informed fans. Thus, I give three stars for an excursion I like the feeling, originality, and message of but whose axis I can sense is missing. It is like gleaning some of a phone conversation by overhearing one half. When I know “The Raven Cycle”, this outing #0.3 from 2014 will magically become a bonus.

Established fans relish “300 Fox Way Holiday Piece” as insight into the background of this family’s Christmas home life. Their tradition is that at Yuletide, four psychic women sit outside in the pure act of listening and watching the world. It is a pretty message. I can appreciate how powerful it would feel to share female, coupled, or familial communion under the stars, even if it were breezy and cold, on a seasonal Holy occasion.

[cindy ♕]

it's no surprise why maggie stiefvater is one of my favourite authors when she can literally conjure up the most magical atmosphere with just 200 words 🔮

[Dani · Rating 3 out of 5]

“What do you want for Christmas, Blue? Something more.”

Oh boy, that prequel was adorable but too short, it's not faaaair! Also, this 'I want something more' is a bit emotional - you know, a beautiful friendship and partnership was build between Blue, Noah, Adam, Gansey and Ronan sometime after this, and it means a lot.

[Marnie (Enchanted Bibliophile) · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was cute, but I want more!

[Sophie_The_Jedi_Knight · Rating 4 out of 5]

*4.25
I liked this. I enjoyed seeing the classic psychic trio together. I just... I don't love 300 Fox Way as much as other people do. It was a beautiful dip back into Henrietta, but I enjoyed Monmouth Manufacturing a bit more, y'know? It was great reading this on Christmas with the other holiday drabble, though.

[Julia · Rating 5 out of 5]

“What were you looking at?” She was shivering, hungry, ready for bed even as the sun glinted newly at her through the glass door to the backyard.
“Everything,” Persephone answered, selecting a very cold and withered piece of okra to take with her. “And letting it look at us.”
Blue hadn’t asked to sit with them again. Everything wasn’t something she was ever going to see.

5/5 stars!

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This teeny-tiny little snippet of what the world of the Raven Boys is like during the holidays is so lovely. It makes me want to jump back into the Raven Cycle and really savor it, because I feel like that is a series that demands to be read more than once so you can make sense of it all. As always, Maggie Stiefvater's writing was lovely, and getting a peek into Blue's life and the craziness of her household was as lively and fun as ever.

[eleni · Rating 5 out of 5]

i want to spend the holidays with the ladies at 300 fox way, too!!

[Aleksandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

I feel like I want to get a Christmas tree and decorate my room right now!

[bookellenic · Rating 4 out of 5]

Way too short, I wanted more! I think I'm craving to dive back into The Raven Cycle.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a cute little short about the holiday traditions that play out at 300 Fox Way and I'm sure if you're a fan of the series then you won't be surprised that Blue's family like to do things a little differently.

You can read this short for free here: http://ireadyabooks.tumblr.com/post/1...

[Mary ~Ravager of Tomes~ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm probably biased, it's just a snippet. But I love this series, and I love Blue and all the women of 300 Fox Way, and I think it's super sweet for Maggie Stiefvater to give us this small glimpse into the Christmas festivities of these beloved characters.

[Jade Juniper · Rating 3 out of 5]

Compared to the other short stories I just read, this fell a bit short. It was cute but not ENOUGH. Ironically I wanted “Something more.”

[sana ୨୧ · Rating 3 out of 5]

this was so short

[talia ♡ · Rating 4 out of 5]

am i basically rating and reviewing a short that can fit one page of a google doc? yes. do i care? no.

(it has been my tradition to reread these trc holiday shorts every winter break for years now bc i cant let these characters go)

[❀ iro ❀ · Rating 3 out of 5]

"What do you want for Christmas, Blue? Something more."

That story was so short, I'm offended.

[Holly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute, but I wish it had a bit more whimsy. Though seriously, hay does get everywhere, especially in socks.

[Anna · Rating 2 out of 5]

until the new series comes out, i will have to be satisfied with anything at all, but damn that added nothing to the series

[Angie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really struggled to find this. This one was about Blue, Laura, Calla and Persephone, but it doesn’t bring much to the story, I think. It’s the least heavy bonus content, though.

[Ashley Catelyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Although short, this was not worth reading.

[Majo · Rating 3 out of 5]

“What were you looking at?”
“Everything, and letting it look at us."

¡Que difícil es puntuar algo tan corto!

[h o l l i s · Rating 3 out of 5]

"What do you want for Christmas, Blue? Something more."

[Liam · Rating 3 out of 5]

( 3.5 STARS )

I love Blue Sargent with all my heart so this was a really sweet and great read! I really do miss this series and this little story has truly blessed me and left me wanting even more!

[Jiana]

what was the point of this

[Cecilia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short but sweet.