Looking at my copies of those books, there are a lot of pink sticky notes. ( Flower petals and blood - Maggie Stiefvater, you evil genius.) Some even indicated foreshadowing - all of those gorgeous and tragic hints into Ronan’s terrible and wonderful backstory, that in later books come back to haunt him in the most horrific and poetic of ways. I marked scenes featuring Ronan that affected me emotionally or some of the pink notes pointed out beautifully written examples of character dimension and development. The pink sticky notes are for passages about Ronan Lynch, the extremely complicated and mostly angry and secretly soft and downtrodden and ultimately hopeful character that has become an overwhelming fan-favorite in the series. My copies of those books are bursting with little slivers of sticky notes, color-coded specifically so that all it takes is one look at the color of paper sticking out of the book and I instantly know what I might find if I were to open to that exact page. Sitting on my bookshelf at home, stacked haphazardly in no particular order with absolutely zero organization, are all four hardback copies of Maggie Stiefvater’s series, The Raven Cycle.
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