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 . . . (Source: Goodreads)
Personal Opinion:
I loved loved loved Maggie Stiefvater’s other work, especially the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy. Naturally, I wanted to read more by this author and picked up Lament when I was in London for a weekend. The book was okay, but it didn’t sweep me off my feet, like Shiver did for example.
I had a hard time connecting to Deirdre in the beginning. She wasn’t very likable to me. Also, I didn’t think it was very believable how blind she trusts Luke, even when all the signs are screaming DANGER, she still does not even question him when he does something really awful. The last thing that was a bit annoying that the plot twists and suspenseful moments for some reason were so rushed, that I had to go back a page to see if I missed something, because at times I had NO CLUE what was going on….
However, I did like the story itself and wished it had a bit more depth here and there. I think I will read the second book in this series, just because I want to know how the story unfolds 🙂
AWildDog said:
I have to say the storyline itself has caught my eye, but I can see from just the synopsis that the writing isn’t the best – it seems very loosely strung together.
Glad your on track though and off to good start for your challenge this year though – 3rd time lucky eh? At the moment your keeping good pace with me and I’m doing 50!
Eruwen said:
Glad I’m not the only one who was confused at times with this book, haha! I really enjoyed the story, but sometimes it just didn’t make a lot of sense. Also, I felt the ending was a little bit rushed (from what I can remember of it).
By the way… the story doesn’t really unfold that much in the second book. It’s more like a separate story from James’ point of view, although chronologically it takes place after the first book (if that makes sense :p ).
I really LOVED Maggie’s writing in Shiver, but to me she never reached that level in any of her other books. I hope The Scorpio Races will come close 🙂
PS: sorry for posting this twice… the first comment has my name linked to the wrong blog :p Can you please delete it?
butterflydreams24 said:
Hmmm this does make me curious about the second book. But the ending was rushed indeed, I was totally confused what the hell just happened…lol. For some reason The Scorpio Races don’t seem to attract my attention, but maybe I just need to pick it up and see for myself what it’s all about 🙂