Title: Blue Lily, Lily Blue
Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Genre: Fantasy/Realistic Fiction/Paranormal
Age Group: Young Adult
Pages: 391 (Hardcover)
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Publication date: October 21st, 2014
**The below synopsis may contain spoilers if you have not read The Raven Boys or The Dream Thieves. My review beneath is spoiler free**
Synopsis from Blue Lily, Lily Blue's Goodreads page
There is danger in dreaming. But there is even more danger in waking up.
Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs.
The trick with found things though, is how easily they can be lost.
Friends can betray.
Mothers can disappear.
Visions can mislead.
Certainties can unravel.
I'm going to start off by saying that this is probably tied for my top three series ever. I absolutely love this series, and I know I'm going to love it for a very long time, if not forever. It's that good!
This book was definitely not the best book out of the first three books, but it was still very, very good, and very easily a five star rating. This specific book was much darker and a bit more violent than the first two books in this series, which is to be expected. The series, as well as the quest, is slowly coming to an end, and there is competition for who can find the Welsh king. So therefore, there will be violence when it doesn't go in a certain person's way. Although this book was much darker than the other three, I felt like the darkness was definitely needed at this point in the story. The characters are slowly coming to terms with school ending and how life will be for them past the point of the school year, and the darkness, in a way, is showing the end. The end of school, the end of a quest, and the end of their childhood, in a way. The characters are growing up and are becoming different people than they were in the beginning of this series. I'm happy they're changing but sad they're growing up.
Something that I absolutely love about this series is how the small and supposedly insignificant details are what affect the entire story line. The smallest of details can be something that is extremely massive, and you don't realize until later on in the story how significant it actually was until it is too late. I also really love how the main plot of the story, finding the king, is delayed constantly throughout the books with other smaller plots that ultimately affect the characters more than actually finding the King at times. Sometimes with series, the sub plots take over and it feels like the book is just becoming the sub plot as it takes too long to get back to the main plot, but that is the exact opposite of this series. The sub plots help the characters to work on the main plot of the story, and it's fascinating to see how everything in these books interconnect and join together to create one massive plot line.
This book was written wonderfully, with the plot pace picking up, the characters still having their wonderful senses of humor, and the setting bleeding into the plot, affecting everyone and everything.
Overall - ★★★★★
**The below synopsis may contain spoilers if you have not read The Raven Boys or The Dream Thieves. My review beneath is spoiler free**
Synopsis from Blue Lily, Lily Blue's Goodreads page
There is danger in dreaming. But there is even more danger in waking up.
Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs.
The trick with found things though, is how easily they can be lost.
Friends can betray.
Mothers can disappear.
Visions can mislead.
Certainties can unravel.
I'm going to start off by saying that this is probably tied for my top three series ever. I absolutely love this series, and I know I'm going to love it for a very long time, if not forever. It's that good!
This book was definitely not the best book out of the first three books, but it was still very, very good, and very easily a five star rating. This specific book was much darker and a bit more violent than the first two books in this series, which is to be expected. The series, as well as the quest, is slowly coming to an end, and there is competition for who can find the Welsh king. So therefore, there will be violence when it doesn't go in a certain person's way. Although this book was much darker than the other three, I felt like the darkness was definitely needed at this point in the story. The characters are slowly coming to terms with school ending and how life will be for them past the point of the school year, and the darkness, in a way, is showing the end. The end of school, the end of a quest, and the end of their childhood, in a way. The characters are growing up and are becoming different people than they were in the beginning of this series. I'm happy they're changing but sad they're growing up.
Something that I absolutely love about this series is how the small and supposedly insignificant details are what affect the entire story line. The smallest of details can be something that is extremely massive, and you don't realize until later on in the story how significant it actually was until it is too late. I also really love how the main plot of the story, finding the king, is delayed constantly throughout the books with other smaller plots that ultimately affect the characters more than actually finding the King at times. Sometimes with series, the sub plots take over and it feels like the book is just becoming the sub plot as it takes too long to get back to the main plot, but that is the exact opposite of this series. The sub plots help the characters to work on the main plot of the story, and it's fascinating to see how everything in these books interconnect and join together to create one massive plot line.
This book was written wonderfully, with the plot pace picking up, the characters still having their wonderful senses of humor, and the setting bleeding into the plot, affecting everyone and everything.
Overall - ★★★★★
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