YA Magazine is excited to share to you THE RAVEN CYCLE blog tour. Today, we’re presenting to you a sneak peek at Book 3: BLUE LILY, LILY BLUE. On top of that, we’re giving away 1 full set of the cycle so far and a special limited edition tarot deck featuring the author’s artwork–that’s 3 books and 1 awesome piece of Raven Cycle swag!
Author Maggie Stiefvater designed The Raven Cycle Tarot, a Major Arcana 22-card deck inspired by The Raven Cycle series. The cards will be revealed in a 22-stop blog tour running November 1 – November 22. Follow The Raven Cycle Tarot Tour on the This is Teen Pinterest page.
So give a read to the sneak peek prologue below… or listen to the audio version on the go! To enter the giveaway, leave a comment here with why you’re excited for BLUE LILY, LILY BLUE. Or you can enter by tweeting your answer @yamzine with the hashtag #BlueLily and #TarotTour! Giveaway is open to US addresses only, and prizing is courtesy of Scholastic.
Without further ado…
AUDIO EXCERPT (PROLOGUE)
Read by Will Patton, published by Scholastic Audio in 2014. Music by Kate Hummel.
ABOUT THE RAVEN CYCLE
Mystery, Romance and the supernatural combine in this series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater.
Book 1: The Raven Boys
Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them–until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her. His name is Gansey, a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.
But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul whose emotions range from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher who notices many things but says very little.
For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She doesn’t believe in true love, and never thought this would be a problem. But as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.
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Book 2: The Dream Thieves
Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life. Meanwhile, some very sinister people are looking for some of the same pieces of the Cabeswater puzzle that Gansey is after….
Book 3: Blue Lily, Lily Blue
There is danger in dreaming. But there is even more danger in waking up.
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.
PRAISE FOR THE RAVEN CYCLE
“Equal parts thriller and mystery, with a measured dash of romance sprinkled on top…Maggie has woven such a unique, intriguing narrative that I struggled for comparisons..”— MTV.com
“[A] well-paced neo-Gothic thriller about a teenage fivesome’s search for the supernatural . . .”— New York Times Book Review
“Simultaneously complex and simple, compulsively readable, marvelously wrought.”— Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“Stiefvater’s can’t-put-it-down paranormal adventure will leave you clamoring for book 2.”— Entertainment Weekly
“[A] tour de force of characterization, and while there is no lack of event or mystery, it is the way Stiefvater’s people live in the reader’s imagination that makes this such a memorable read.”— Publishers Weekly, starred review
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Entertainment Weekly has called Maggie Stiefvater, “one of the finest YA novelists writing today.” Maggie Stiefvater is a writer, artist, and musician and the New York Times bestselling author of the Shiver trilogy, The Scorpio Races, and The Raven Cycle series.
Her books have appeared on “best of the year” lists from Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, The Horn Book and Kirkus Reviews. The Scorpio Races was named a 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book by the American Library Association and a New York Times Notable Children’s Book. Visit Maggie Stiefvater’s Official Site or follow her on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram!
PRIZING
One winner from YA Magazine will receive:
· The Raven Boys, The Dream Thieves, and Blue Lily, Lily Blue
· PLUS a Limited Edition The Raven Cycle Major Arcana Tarot Deck (featuring Maggie Stiefvater original artwork!)
Prizing & samples courtesy of Scholastic
Giveaway open to US addresses only
*Author photo by Robert Severi