A review by piperclover
Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

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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