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Blue Lily, Lily Blue
by Maggie Stiefvater
It's been about a year and a half since I read The Dream Thieves and ohmygod I forgot how good the writing in these books are. I have said it before and I will repeat it, I'm not one of the crazy fan girls about this series, it's not one of my favourites but damn, I can appreciate the magic of these words.
I love all the relationships in this series. Gansey and Blue. Blue and Noah. Gansey and Adam. Gansey and Ronan. RONAN AND ADAM. Their was a beautiful quote from Blue at one stage that summed up the feelings in this book, and one of the reasons I think that everyone is so entranced by The Raven Boys.
"Orla wasn't wrong, of course. But what she didn't realize about Blue and her boys was that they were all in love with one another. She was no less obsessed with them than they were with her, or one another, analyzing every conversation and gesture, drawing out every joke into a longer and longer running gag, spending each moment either with one another or thinking about when next they would be with one another. Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn't all-encompassing, that wasn't blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she'd had this kind, she didn't want the other."
The character arcs and growth in all of these books have been so beautiful and interesting to read and it just got better and better in this book. There's something about the way this series is written that reminds me of the surprising and remarkable magic of Cabeswater. It's subtle, but addicting and you never know what to expect. Every word is twisted together with the next so beautifully. The descriptions, the metaphors, the prose. Ugh, amazing. I'm so excited for The Raven King now. I'm so glad I was able to come back to the series, read this book and love it so so much. There was part of me that was thinking should i give this a 4.5 stars because I'm not crazy fanatic about The Raven boys like so many others but I literally had no fault with this book. Not one. And it really deserves 5 stars.
I love all the relationships in this series. Gansey and Blue. Blue and Noah. Gansey and Adam. Gansey and Ronan. RONAN AND ADAM. Their was a beautiful quote from Blue at one stage that summed up the feelings in this book, and one of the reasons I think that everyone is so entranced by The Raven Boys.
"Orla wasn't wrong, of course. But what she didn't realize about Blue and her boys was that they were all in love with one another. She was no less obsessed with them than they were with her, or one another, analyzing every conversation and gesture, drawing out every joke into a longer and longer running gag, spending each moment either with one another or thinking about when next they would be with one another. Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn't all-encompassing, that wasn't blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she'd had this kind, she didn't want the other."
The character arcs and growth in all of these books have been so beautiful and interesting to read and it just got better and better in this book. There's something about the way this series is written that reminds me of the surprising and remarkable magic of Cabeswater. It's subtle, but addicting and you never know what to expect. Every word is twisted together with the next so beautifully. The descriptions, the metaphors, the prose. Ugh, amazing. I'm so excited for The Raven King now. I'm so glad I was able to come back to the series, read this book and love it so so much. There was part of me that was thinking should i give this a 4.5 stars because I'm not crazy fanatic about The Raven boys like so many others but I literally had no fault with this book. Not one. And it really deserves 5 stars.