“I'm glad you misdialed."
"Well. Easy mistake to make," she said. Might do it again." A very, very long pause. She opened her mouth to fill it, then changed her mind and didn't. She was shivering again, even though she wasn't cold with the pillow on her legs.
"Shouldn't," Gansey said finally. "But I hope you do.”
Book: Blue Lily, Lily (The Raven Cycle #3)
Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Genre: Fiction, Young Adult, Paranormal
Synopsis: 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.
What I think about it…
The Characters
I believe this book is more focused on Blue, her psychic family (including Calla and Persephone) and Adam.
There’s the introduction to new characters such as the man behind Mr. Grayman and then we get to meet Malory this time. Just a little spoiler, I honestly don’t see the sense of Malory coming to Henrietta. I don’t reckon he did something particularly remarkable while he was there. Also there are deaths here that I don’t think is necessary. It’s just sad and distasteful.
The Story
They are now looking for some caves that might be where Glendower was buried. But the dilemma is there are three sleepers. One who they should wake up, one who they should never wake up and the last is the one in between.
What I liked less…
I used to love history. It was one of my favorite subjects way back in high school and I even topped the history quiz bees for two consecutive years but here I am getting super bored and overwhelmed by how confusing the back story of this book is. I mean I love the idea, the plot of this book and at this point (come on I’m already on the third book) I should have understand everything that is going on and yet I’m so clueless, so lost. I cannot say anything bad about the author’s writing cos I find it quirky and funny at times so I would say that what I didn’t like about the story is that when the characters started to act dumb just like in horror movies when the protagonist is in a house and the lights went off and he should run for his life and yet what he did is to continue entering the said house to locate the light switch and that’s when the serial killer appears. It’s like that dumbness in this book. The characters here know how dangerous scrying is and yet, and yet…
My Verdict
I am confused as ever but and I don’t dwell on my irritation cos I love the characters in this book. There is so much going on and yet I feel like nothing is actually happening. I’m wondering how this story is even progressing and yet here I am in book three.
MY RATING
★★★☆☆
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