Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

23 reviews

piperclover's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I have to say I do really appreciate how this book doesn't have one final climatic scene and instead the entire last quarter of the book is basically the final scene. I feel like it is really a job of keeping you tense and on edge for longerthan other books would so the stakes constantly feel high and not rushed, like the author was just trying to get to the end. 


 The two things I wish is that we could see more of the friendships.  I feel like we got some really great scenes particularly of Ronan and Blue and a few of Noah and Blue but other than that I felt a little let down.  For me, the plot doesn't matter if I can't connect with the characters and most of that is seeing them be genuine friends so when we don't get a lot of actual friendship, I fall out of it quite quickly. I said this for the last book but I'm gonna say it again here and probably again in the next book:  I adore Noah as a character and I am forever angry that he is not in more of the story. I feel like he is a very underused character that gets written off as being a weird ghost because the author decided she didn't want to write him in the plot more than what was convenient 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Death of parent and Violence

The death of a parent tag is the best way I can tag for the death

of an adult very close to the mc, almost aunt/uncle like.

cat_universe's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Abandonment

imds's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gun violence, Death, Abandonment, and Murder

Minor: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Child abuse

izypup's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Blood, Confinement, Gun violence, Classism, and Death

Minor: Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, and Death of parent

a_ira's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent and Blood

lujisa's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Blood, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Rape

fanboyriot's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

This series is so captivating and interesting and stunning to read.  Seeing all the character development was amazing, it’s a very nice balance between characters and plot.  The humor was amazing and the overall writing is so lovely to read.  I really liked seeing Ronan and Blue have more of a friendship (though I don’t think either of them would admit it) seeing them be stubborn or them saying something the other’s wouldn’t dare say—very fun to read.  It was also nice to see Adam working on letting people help him without him thinking it was because of where—or how—he grew up.  He started to see that his friends just wanted to be there for him and it was just written so nicely. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Cursing, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Rape, Child abuse, Classism, and Mental illness

grimmdark's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

well ok so as always with these books i enjoyed myself thoroughly because i love the world and the characters and the story, so much! and i have about 3 million quotes i loved that i've kept, because maggie stiefvater's style is so rich. besides the humor (top notch), so many times i found myself reading descriptions of feelings or small moments that my mind could barely grasp as i lived through them. but there they were, laid down so accurately on the page! this sentence barely makes sense but yeah.
THAT SAID, out of the three books in this series that i've read thus far, this is my least favorite. again, it was really good! just not my favorite. there's so much happening everywhere all the time with everyone and everything felt kind of scattered? so all the elements of the story kind of just... float aimlessly towards the ending? i don't know. i felt i was kind of grabbing at too many strings at the same time, and it made the story feel perhaps longer than it was. could be because this is also the book that's taken me by far the longest to finish cause i've been busy!
can't wait to dig into trk!

i'm beyond heartbroken about persephone and jesse dittley. i loved them both so much
also, i was half expecting neeve to make a comeback sooner or later, but i wasn't expecting that ending! she knew piper's name but the latter hadn't ever told her what it was. so either she guessed it with her powers somehow, since she's such a powerful psychic, or she was there the whole time and overheard it when blue, the gray man, etc... were still there. creepy. why does she even make an appearance such a long time after they escape? like did she just stand there watching piper fading in and out of consciousness for however long that was???
i don't know how i feel about gwenllian! and i'm having trouble believing the guy blue found with maura actually is THEE artemus???? guess we'll see.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Blood, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Cursing

ashyouwish's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Physical abuse

keen's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Gun violence, Murder, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Gaslighting, Child abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death, Misogyny, and Gore