Book Review: Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Blue Lily, Lily Blue is the third book in the Raven Cycle series, and it was better than the Dream Thieves. Even though the last book was all about Ronan, this book, I felt like, was all about Blue and Adam and Gansey as they look for Glendower. They don’t find him exactly-they find his daughter, Gwenllian, who is annoying as hell with all of her riddles and songs and not getting anything straight.

This book also introduces Mr. Greenmatle, a man who used to be Mr. Gray’s boss. He’s in town to find the Greywaren and also find Glendower, but he never caught the Greywaren, even though Adam and Ronan plotted to blackmail him (and holy cow, it worked). He and his partner, Piper, a psychic, are looking to find the sleepers, but Mr. Greenmatle upped and leaves her, leaving Piper with Neeve, who thinks she gonna be Queen when she wakes up Glendower.

The cave that Gwenllian was sleeping in was on a farm owned by Jesse Ditley, who speaks really loud, only eats Spaghetti-Os, and thinks that his cave was cursed. He did try to stop Mr. Greenmantle and his party to go into the cave by sitting there with a shotgun, but sadly, he didn’t make it, even when he got shot three times by Piper.

But the most heartwrenching death ever was Persephone. Adam and Persephone were talking at an old General Store, then moments later she was gone. Adam called the house, and Calla and Blue found poor Persephone in between Neeve’s mirrors, where she died. I hated that had to happen, but in the end, near a grave in Ditley’s cave, they do find Maura and Blue’s father, who is surprisingly British. All of them did escape the cave, except Piper.

Piper, who found Neeve in the chair, saying that she can’t be Queen alone…whatever that means.

I really enjoy this series, and I’m going to read the last and final book and cry because I really don’t want this series to end. I really don’t.

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