Blue Lily, Lily Blue
core novel 2014 The Raven Cycle
Record
| First published | 2014 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.25 (185,330 ratings, collected 2026-08-31) |
| Page count | 391 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780545424967 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Blue Lily, Lily Blue is the third novel in the Raven Cycle and picks up the search for the sleeping king Glendower as Blue's mother, Maura, disappears into caves beneath Blue's family home while looking for Artemus, Blue's biological father. In the caves, the group discovers Gwenllian, the daughter of the historical Welsh king Glendower, entombed in stone. Meanwhile a new figure, Colin Greenmantle, infiltrates Aglionby Academy posing as a Latin teacher while secretly searching for the same object the Gray Man sought in the previous book. As Blue, Gansey, Ronan, Adam and Noah try to make sense of these new threats and the deepening mystery beneath Blue's home, their quest for the ley line's power grows more urgent and more dangerous.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Raven Cycle
- Series: The Raven Cycle core; position 3 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Notes
- From the series record (The Raven Cycle): The original quartet following Blue Sargent and the Raven Boys' search for a sleeping Welsh king.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Raven Cycle: position 3 of 4: previous The Dream Thieves (2013) · next The Raven King (2016)
- Internal chronology, within The Raven Cycle: position 3 of 7: previous The Dream Thieves (2013) · next The Raven King (2016)
Sources
← The Raven Cycle dossier · All universes
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