Book Review: Lament by Maggie Stiefvater
Celtic Faerie lore, controlling mother, deceitful aunt, a gorgeous guy, and a cute guy best friend make up the life of Deirdre Monaghan.
Not to mention, her crazy insane (as in good) ability to play the harp. Oh, and she has one resourceful Grandma. Though we can’t say Grandma was forthcoming with information nor that we are happy about what happens to her.
This book is centered on Deirdre, and the Faerie that are after her. She meets Luke and there is an instant attraction, much to the chagrin of her BFF James. But really, who is Luke and what is he after?
We wanted to love this book. We wanted to read all of Stiefvater’s books starting with this series and end with Shiver. Hopefully, we will walk away from Shiver with fewer questions we need answered than this one.
Was it a bad book? No. It was actually a good story. It’s the people that surround Deirdre that have us wondering why they were there and if they knew so much (hello, mom????) why didn’t they help out.
Will we read Ballad? Yes. In fact, we are hoping it answers some questions we have and thus raises our opinion of this book.
BTW, this is one book, that even though we liked Luke, we wish the BFF actually gets the girl.
Lament has some of the same elements of Hush, Hush and we really liked Hush, Hush. Maybe if we had read Lamnet first we would have liked it more…
We gave Lament 3.5 STACKS
Trying to find the next book to LOVE, STACKGirls Stacy and Shannan
Great,honest review!
We think so too!
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