Book: Lament by Maggie Stiefvater

Release date: October 1, 2008

Publisher: Flux

From: Bookstore

Summary:
Sixteen-year-old Deirdre Monaghan is a painfully shy but prodigiously gifted musician. She’s about to find out she’s also a cloverhand – one who can see faeries. Deirdre finds herself infatuated with a mysterious boy who enters her ordinary suburban life, seemingly out of thin air. Trouble is, the enigmatic and gorgeous Luke turns out to be a gallowglass – a soulless faerie assassin. An equally hunky – and equally dangerous – dark faerie soldier named Aodhan is also stalking Deirdre. Sworn enemies, Luke and Aodhan each have a deadly assignment from the Faerie Queen. Namely, kill Deirdre before her music captures the attention of the Fae and threatens the Queen’s sovereignty. Caught in the crossfire with Deirdre is James, her wisecracking but loyal best friend. Deirdre had been wishing her life weren’t so dull, but getting trapped in the middle of a centuries-old faerie war isn’t exactly what she had in mind . . .

Wow! I didn’t think that this book could be better than Shiver but in the end, I think it might have been. I just really, really loved it. I haven’t read very many good books about fairies but this one was. It was also amazingly unique and wonderfully written.

Deirdre Monaghan is a very talented musician but it’s not really a known fact. That’s because her fear of performing tends to stop her from doing it very often. All that changes when she meets Luke Dillon, the very guy of her dreams(literally). =]

Dee and Luke really had an instantaneous attraction that was amazing, to say the least. At first I was a bit skeptical because he just showed up out of nowhere and Dee went with anything he said without questioning a single thing. That doesn’t seem to happen a lot in society today because people are taught not to trust strangers but I guess it went with the story pretty believably. Well, also this isn’t really a book that you would take literally and expect to happen in real life. The best thing about it was that I even though I know it couldn’t, I believed it could. Maggie Stiefvater has a way of making the most unbelievable of situations seem believable. I just love her writing and I can’t wait to dive into Ballad, the sequel. I hope it’s as good as this one was.

Another thing about Lament is that it has your typical young adult love triangle. The one boy the girl can’t resist and the best friend who has been secretly pining away for years. It was a tad predictable but it just added to the story and I loved both of the boys. Luke was really sexy and mysterious while James was the loving, goofy friend. They both helped make the book as good as it was.

Overall, I loved it! It is really such an extraordinary fairy tale and all I have to say to you guys is: READ IT! It’s worth it and I am so glad that I did. This is definitely a book I can see myself reading over and over again.

Writing: 10/10

Characters: 9/10

Ending: 9/10

Plot: 10/10

Originality: 10/10

Overall: 48/50=A

Cover: 9/10=A