Book Review: Lament

  The Faerie Queen's Deception

by Maggie Stiefvater

Rating: 6/10

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. When a mysterious boy enters her ordinary suburban life, seemingly out of nowhere, Deirdre finds herself infatuated. Trouble is, the enigmatic and conflicted Luke turns out to be a gallowglass—a soulless faerie assassin—and Deirdre is meant to be his next mark. Deirdre has to decide if Luke's feelings towards her are real, or only a way to lure her deeper into the world of Faerie.

Lament: The Faerie Queens’ Deception is the first novel by the bestselling author of Shiver and Linger. The novel is about Deidre, a gifted harpist.

Lament opens with Deidre totally wrecked with nerves and thinking that it’ll be better if she can just get to throw up.

Deidre is about to perform in a competition and she is going to play the Faerie Queen’s Lament. Luke Dillon who is totally cute shows up as Deidre is upchucking and he holds her back, which is what her best friend James usually does.

Luke challenges Deidre to perform differently and she ends up performing a duet with him (Luke is a flautist). Deidre is given an iron ring by her Granna, a key on a chain to wear by Luke as they both notice Deidre finding four-leaf clovers.

The fey in Lament are the typical, insanely beautiful kind, and they are cruel in a creepy uncaring way. They want to play with Deidre so They send her the clovers, because with some people the clovers just teach them how to see Them. Four-leaf clovers are used to see the fey, (you’re not supposed to say Faeries because it calls Their notice).

Deidre discovers she has telekinesis and a strange form of telepathy that causes her to gain Luke’s memories, in which she discovers he is the Faerie Queen’s assassin; he can touch iron so he can use it to kill Them.

Deidre is a cloverhand, which means she has energy (the telekinesis is a symptom) and this draws the fey to her. The Faerie Queen isn’t actually one of Them, she is the previous cloverhand and she uses Luke to kill off those who threaten her reign.

The Faerie Queen holds Luke’s soul and Deidre’s best friend over Deidre and she must fight to save her love and her life.

This is a good and sucks you in but it does end quickly and more reassurance that Luke and Deidre will be together would be nice.

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