The Book Depository Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception by Maggie Stiefvater
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Description: Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception : Paperback : North Star Editions : 9780738713700 : 0738713708 : 08 Oct 2008 : A dark faerie fantasy that features authentic Celtic faerie lore, Lament follows 16-year-old Dierdre Monaghan, who discovers that she is a cloverhand--one who can see faeries. Dierdre soon finds herself trapped in the middle of a centuries-old faerie war. The Book Depository Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception by Maggie Stiefvater - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Author: L Knight
Rating: 5
Review: Deirdre Monaghan is sixteen. She has a talent for music. Infact, a gift and she doesn't even know that she has it. She uses it frequently, but never enough to be the best like she can be. She is a harpist. A TALENTED harpist. One day, at the auctition at her high school, she is getting ready for a her performance and is tremendously nervous. So nervous that she has to be sick. She goes to the ladies bathroom and pukes. Then she meets Luke... Dee decides that she likes Luke and can't wait to see him again. But the more time she spends with Luke the more she gets surrounded by strange faerie things e.g. "Freckle Freak"; a guy who reaks of thyme. Or clovers, four-leaf clovers that somehow seem to follow her everywhere she goes. Luke has a secret that he cannot tell anyone. Even Dee... Each day Dee spends with Luke, more information about Lukes secret is unravelled; that he won't tell her about. Dee unravels a secret of herself, too: she is a cloverhand - someone who can see faeries and also uses similar powers to what the faeries use. Then, Dee descides something else: she likes her gift and she loves Luke. But does Luke love her back? And is this gift of hers safe to keep? The Others are watching... ...They're closing in on her. And all Dee wants is a summer romance with Luke. A bit of time. Precious time that can be snatched away just like that. But her future has already been planned. With Luke bound tight in his secret, held back, not able to escape the strong grasp on him and Dee surrounded by surreal things, faeries, things she never wanted, except for luke, how can their love concur? How can their love survive? The faeries are taking over and only Dee can stop them. She is in a dangerous game when the one you love is the one who gets hurt so you can be hurt... Thats my version of Laments Blur, hehe ;D Anyway, well Dee is a nervous, invisible person. Well, not literally invisble, in the way when you're never noticed. And Luke is an asassin who has his soul trapped behind bars, stolen from his body. Now he must serve the Faerie queen - Deirdre O'Brien (same name as the main character...strange). If he denies to serve her, his soul will be sent to hell, where the flames of roaring fire never burns out. Serving the Faerie queen, he is ordered to kill a cloverhand (as i said, a person who has faerie powers and can see faeries too, but is human) considering they might become powerful and suddenly take over the queen and then become queen or king themselves. And this cloverhand happens to be Dee, the girl who is invisible. But not invisible enough to not be seen by Them. Dee doesn't even know that she has a gift; she hasn't even used her powers. But despite that, her future has already been spoken for. Luke accepts the offer for he mustn't disobey the queen or his soul will be damned... Luke finds Dee and finds himself fascinated by her and cannot find it in him to destroy her. Dee is attracted to Luke, and also likes him too. They start to spend time together as they both like eachother and Dee senses that Luke is different and not normal. Not like the others; he is odd. Dee wants to find out more about him and Luke tells her that he cannot reveal the truth of who he really is. Dee unravels who he is eventually and is shocked and sad for he is an asassin who has killed so many people. Despite her disgust towards him, she can't find it in her heart to hate him. She doesn't know what is making him do it, but she senses that that's not what the real Luke is like. She KNOWS that hes not really like that, and the love that is held in her for him - only him - cannot be destroyed by his past. During this time, when Dee is alone, she feels unsecure and vunerable as there are faeries everywhere she turns. She finds herself walking in four-leaved clovers constantly, as if they're following her secretly. She keeps being stalked by a freak - Freckle Freak as she calls him because of his freckles and his sketchy, freaky personality. But no matter how much the faeries try to harm Dee, Luke is always there. As if he is her hero. Her protecter. But Luke cannot be there for her forever so it is possible that their love - a small rose petal, peach-coloured, gleaming in the sunset, falling down, down, down into the delicate envying hands of the faerie queen - will be destroyed. When everything is taken from her - James, her best friend and Luke, her love - she finds it in her that SHE is the one who has to save them. She can do it. And she will. After Dee saves James and Luke, the queen is out-voted and then is destroyed by her people. Lukes soul is free for the queen is dead. But his soul would mean a goodbye. For Dee and Luke, it would be the last goodbye they would ever say. Dee can't find it in her heart to keep Luke. She must let him go now. Neither of them want to leave eachother but its the only way and Luke has waited for his soul to flutter its dove wings back into his chest so he can be ALIVE and free, for so long. It has to be a goodbye...
Author: Sarah (Feeling Fictional)
Rating: 3
Review: I'm going to start this review by saying that I don't have the best track record when it comes to books about faeries so I wasn't sure if I should read Lament or not. Having said that I am also a massive fan of Maggie Stiefvater, I love her Wolves of Mercy Falls series and I also really enjoyed her recent stand alone book The Scorpio Races. If anyone could convince me I like faeries then I was pretty sure it would be Maggie! As I expected Lament is beautifully written, I don't think this author will ever write a book that isn't full of wonderful descriptions that transport you to the worlds she has created. I also enjoyed the mythology of her faeries more than I thought I would, these faeries are vicious, cunning and manipulative and staying one step ahead of them isn't going to be easy for our main character Dee. Unfortunately I didn't love the book as much as I've loved Maggie's later releases though. It's by no means a bad book but it didn't capture me the way her others have so although I will still read the sequel Ballad I won't be in a rush to do so. Dee is a talented musician but she suffers from terrible stage fright whenever she has to perform in front of an audience. I found it easy to relate to her nervousness and I loved how her friend James was so supportive of her. What I didn't like was the romance between her and the mysterious Luke. Even when she finds out that Luke is an assassin who has killed countless victims and that she is his latest target she brushes it under the carpet because she is attracted to him. I wanted her to find out more about why he had done the things he had done before she even considered dating him but that just didn't happen. I don't enjoy the kind of instant connection that was between them when there was nothing to back it up apart from suspicion and behaviour on his part that should have had her running a mile in the opposite direction. Once you start to find out more about why Luke is the way he is then I started to like him more and I think I'd have preferred the romance if it had developed more slowly. Although this wasn't my favourite book I still think Maggie Stiefvater is a wonderful author, she is on my automatically buy list and I'm very much looking forward to seeing what she comes up with in the future. I would recommend her more recent books to anyone and if you're a big fan of faeries then I'm sure you will also enjoy Lament so don't let me put you off trying it.
