Cover of Blue Lily, Lily Blue

Blue Lily, Lily Blue

Maggie Stiefvater

The Raven Cycle #3

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Blue has finally found her people — but the boy she loves is fated to die if she kisses him.

Content Warnings
death of loved one

Description

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.

The Raven Cycle series

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