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6 Aug 2015

Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle #3) by Maggie Stiefvater

Jamie @ Books and Ladders 06 August 3 Comments

BLUE LILY, LILY BLUE

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Series: The Raven Cycle #3
Source: Borrowed from the Library/Purchased from TBD
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Publication Date: October 21, 2014
Rating: 4/5 stars

Summary:
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.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17378508-blue-lily-lily-blue

Purchase:

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This is the third book in a series! I try not to spoil this book, but I do talk a bit about stuff from the other two books. You can read my reviews of:
THE RAVEN BOYS
THE DREAM THIEVES

This is probably one of the best series I have ever read. Each book has twists and turns you don't see coming all while advancing the plot set about in the first novel. The only thing I am not looking forward to is waiting for the next novel (STILL SO LONG UNTIL IT COMES OUT, but I do have it preordered).

5 Aug 2015

The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle #2) by Maggie Stiefvater

Jamie @ Books and Ladders 05 August 0 Comments

THE DREAM THIEVES

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Series: The Raven Cycle #2
Source: Borrowed from Library/Purchased from TBD
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Publication Date: September 17, 2013
Rating: 4/5 stars

Summary:
If you could steal things from dreams, what would you take?

Ronan Lynch has secrets. Some he keeps from others. Some he keeps from himself.

One secret: Ronan can bring things out of his dreams.

And sometimes he's not the only one who wants those things.

Ronan is one of the raven boys—a group of friends, practically brothers, searching for a dead king named Glendower, who they think is hidden somewhere in the hills by their elite private school, Aglionby Academy. The path to Glendower has long lived as an undercurrent beneath town. But now, like Ronan's secrets, it is beginning to rise to the surface—changing everything in its wake.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17347389-the-dream-thieves

Purchase:

Amazon | Chapters | TBD

This is the second book in the series. You can see my review of THE RAVEN BOYS!

Holy shit. That book was perfect. One thing I will give Maggie is that she does not suffer from Second Book Syndrome. This one was better than The Raven Boys and I loved that one.

Ronan Lynch is one of those characters that could have been butchered and destroyed in any other author's hands, but Maggie gets Ronan and his story is absolutely compelling. I loved the way this was written and I loved seeing Ronan come alive on the page. Because Maggie's story was so real and so imaginative that I actually felt as though I was in the story following along with all the Raven Boys.

31 Jul 2015

The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle #1) by Maggie Stiefvater

Jamie @ Books and Ladders 31 July 0 Comments

THE RAVEN BOYS

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Series: The Raven Cycle #1
Source: Borrowed from the Library/Purchased from TBD
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Publication Date: September 18, 2012
Rating: 4/5 stars

Summary:
“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.

His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.

But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.

For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and the nature of love lead us to a place we’ve never been before.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17675462-the-raven-boys

Purchase:

Amazon | Chapters | TBD

I mean, everyone knows my whole life revolves around Ronan Lynch right? No surprise? Because his name is my url for Goodreads. So clearly I have lots of love for this series, and this book in particular. I picked this one up on a whim when it was $2.99 on Kobo because I had heard some good things about it but wasn't sure if it was going to be something I wanted to read. I know Maggie writes well and all that jazz but I was still a little skeptical. But holy shitballs. This book. This series. I have no words for how much I love it, but I will try to be semi-coherent here.