A Lazy Reader's Review of "Blue Lily, Lily Blue" by Maggie Stiefvater

Synopsis

    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, is how easily they can be lost.

    Friends can betray.

    Mothers can disappear.

    Visions can mislead.

    Certainties can unravel.

Review

    This book is the mother of all character and plot development. I could not put this book down for a second. Even when I wasn't actively reading it, I was constantly thinking about it. 

    Colin Greenmantle and his wife are some of the funniest characters in this series. Like, they're just so unserious and it cracks me up because, for the most part, this book takes a very serious tone but these two offer a good humorous relief from all of the tension. 

    I love the development of Ronan and Adam's abilities and how they both come to terms with it. Ronan has got to be one of my favorite characters in the entire Young Adult genre. He's just so funny and blunt and real. What's not to love? I was also really interested in this kind of shift that Adam was going through in this book. He's retained much of his original self but after he was able to manifest his abilities in the previous book, there's just been this change in him and I'm interested to see how Stiefvater wraps up his storyline in the next book.

    In this book Blue and Gansey seem, to be falling more and more in love with each other. I loved the scenes of them having late night calls that didn't last very long. I don't know, it's just something about small moments like this in books that just makes me love it even more. Blue is also probably one of my favorite female protagonists of all time. I love how dry her humor is. In this book as well as the last one, I found myself audibly laughing out loud because of how effortlessly funny I found Blue. And Gansey, ever the constant figure is beginning to have a sort of dilemma. He begins to wonder the kind of person he will be when this is all said and done. After they find the Welsh king he's been obsessed with for most of his life, he begins to wonder how he'll be able to cope. It's an interested characters struggle and I can't wait to see how it pans out.

    Overall, this was just another incredibly solid book in this series. I cannot believe it took me so long to get to this series because it will probably go down as one of my favorite Young Adult Fantasy series. Maggie Stiefvater, you are an icon girly.

Nov. 3, 2024 – Nov. 5, 2024

★★★★☆

Favorite Quote: “There is no good word for the opposite of lonesome. One might be tempted to suggest togetherness or contentment , but the fact that these two other words bear definitions unrelated to each other perfectly displays why lonesome cannot be properly mirrored. It does not mean solitude, nor alone, nor lonely, although lonesome can contain all of those words in itself. Lonesome means a state of being apart. Of being other. Alone-some.”