Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3) in Vampires, Weres and Fae!

Sep 23, 2017 destiny ♡ howling libraries rated it it was amazing

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#1 The Raven Boys ★★★★★
#2 The Dream Thieves ★★★★★
#3 Blue Lily, Lily Blue ★★★★★
#4 The Raven King ★★★★★
#4.5 Opal ★★★★★

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.

Where do I even begin? This review took me six weeks to write, and it's literally only because I loved it so much that I don't know how to describe it. ...more

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Apr 03, 2018 Ashley rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy-epic-adventure, favorites, fantasy-dark, owned, fantasy-whimsical, ya

Blue Lily, Lily Blue in one word? Enchanting.

Star rating in one word? Impossible.
Some place I cant pin down between 4.5 and 5 stars? It’s hard for me; every other book so far in this series has felt like some major component was just... missing. It almost felt as if there wasn’t enough content there to make each a feel like a completed “novel” in its own right.
BLLB definitely still had that feeling of ‘missing’, but it was so insignificant this time around that I barely even noticed it... whic Blue Lily, Lily Blue in one word? Enchanting.

Star rating in one word? Impossible.
Some place I cant pin down between 4.5 and 5 stars? It’s hard for me; every other book so far in this series has felt like some major component was just... missing. It almost felt as if there wasn’t enough content there to make each a feel like a completed “novel” in its own right.
BLLB definitely still had that feeling of ‘missing’, but it was so insignificant this time around that I barely even noticed it... which is why I only took (an ever changing, indeterminate amount that exists) between 0 and .5 stars away in my rating ;-).

That said- This is the first book in The Raven Cycle series that kept me positively GLUED; every time Life made me pry my eyes away to go adult... adulting was just that much more torturous :-P. I also seem to have developed a very curious, very bad habit of drinking very strong cups of coffee, very late at night, so as to keep reading, obvs :-D.
Otherwise... WOAH. I enjoyed this rollercoaster ride of a book SOMUCHHHH. Words can’t even explain. Just, from beginning to end it was packed with endless amounts of magic, wonder, and excitement. Even was successfully super freakin’ creepy (all too often, too, when you’re reading alone late at night lol) quite often this time around. Everything just felt BIGGER, more intense, more everything! I Loved all of the characters’ developments this time around, and excited at the hints towards furthering such in The Raven King. The level of detail in Blue Lily, Lily Blue is just plain incredible. Descriptions of each scene burned the most amazing visuals and images in my mind that almost-could-be-real-(magic isn’t real Ashley! Snap out of it!)-if-they-weren’t-(prettymuch?)-impossible-in-reality.

This kind of change your life imagery, btw, has just finally blossomed, as it just WAS NOT there in the 2 books previous, and honestly it just could COULD NOT be evoked from me even if there was a spot or two because it wasn’t BLLB level, for me at least.

All of it left me feeling deeply inspired and... well, as I said...

Enchanted :-) ...more

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