Blue Lily, Lily Blue

Maggie Stiefvater's Blue Lily, Lily Blue is the third book in her The Raven Cycle.

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.

The Breakdown:
1.  Stiefvater keeps the surprises and the mysterious coming in her Raven Cycle series with this book.  She tells us where Maura has, but notes that there is more than Glendower sleeping.   Greenmantle makes an appearance in town.  Noah starts changing, and Adam is really embracing his power.  Ronan is trying to breathe new life into the things his father created for reasons that could save his family, and Gansey is getting closer to the sleeping king.  There is plenty going on, but Stiefvater presents so well that I never felt overwhelmed by all that is happening.

2. I feel like that the fragile peace between Blue and the Raven Boys hangs on a razors edge at times.  Gansey is trying hard to maintain the peace all the while denying his feelings for Blue.  Blue denies her feelings because of her curse and what she knows of Gansey's future.  Adam figures out what Blue's family already knows, that they have seen Gansey on the on the road of the dead.  So the peace is so fragile, but I feel that all the characters have grown so much in these books.

3. Boy does Stiefvater know how to make an exciting ending.  She does it once again in this book, and still leaves you wanting so much more.  The last chapter has me wanting the last book, yesterday!

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