Sixteen year old harpist Deirdre Monaghan meets Luke Dillon at a music competition. He offers to play a duet with her and they win the competiton. That is when her life starts to change: she begins to find four leaf clovers everywhere, becomes able to move objects without touching them, and begins to see the faeries. They are watching her, and as the story unfolds it becomes clear why; their Queen wants her dead. Luke may be a faerie killer, even her dog may be fay. Can she survive? Can Luke? Can her best friend James? If you liked Impossible you will enjoy Lament. Beautiful and haunting, it is one of the best faerie tales I have read, and I mean faerie tales. Faerie tales and fairy tales, in my mind, are not the same thing. Fairy tales to me are things like Cinderella and Peter Pan, while faerie tales are things like Lament.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
By Maggie Stiefvater
Sixteen year old harpist Deirdre Monaghan meets Luke Dillon at a music competition. He offers to play a duet with her and they win the competiton. That is when her life starts to change: she begins to find four leaf clovers everywhere, becomes able to move objects without touching them, and begins to see the faeries. They are watching her, and as the story unfolds it becomes clear why; their Queen wants her dead. Luke may be a faerie killer, even her dog may be fay. Can she survive? Can Luke? Can her best friend James? If you liked Impossible you will enjoy Lament. Beautiful and haunting, it is one of the best faerie tales I have read, and I mean faerie tales. Faerie tales and fairy tales, in my mind, are not the same thing. Fairy tales to me are things like Cinderella and Peter Pan, while faerie tales are things like Lament.
Sixteen year old harpist Deirdre Monaghan meets Luke Dillon at a music competition. He offers to play a duet with her and they win the competiton. That is when her life starts to change: she begins to find four leaf clovers everywhere, becomes able to move objects without touching them, and begins to see the faeries. They are watching her, and as the story unfolds it becomes clear why; their Queen wants her dead. Luke may be a faerie killer, even her dog may be fay. Can she survive? Can Luke? Can her best friend James? If you liked Impossible you will enjoy Lament. Beautiful and haunting, it is one of the best faerie tales I have read, and I mean faerie tales. Faerie tales and fairy tales, in my mind, are not the same thing. Fairy tales to me are things like Cinderella and Peter Pan, while faerie tales are things like Lament.
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I just want to say that I have nothing against fairy tales, I just prefer faerie tales. They are darker and, to my mind, more magical.
ReplyDeleteThat is an interesting distinction. Is it pronounced the same way? :)
ReplyDeleteAlso, have you read "Shiver" by the same author?
ReplyDeleteYes, faerie and fairy are pronounced the same way, and no,I have not read Shiver. Is it any good?
ReplyDeleteI think there is a sequel to Lament, but I can't remember the name.
ReplyDeleteyes, Shiver is worth getting. Let me know what you think!
ReplyDeleteI will. Do you know what the sequel to Lament is called?
ReplyDeletenope. I couldn't even find this book at our library.
ReplyDeleteReally? Can you order it?
ReplyDeleteSo... I finally found Lament at the Ingleside branch of the library in San Francisco. Even though I live in San Francisco I still use the San Mateo libray system because it is what I am used to. In any case, I was only a little way into this book (you are right... it IS good!) when it took an unfortunate bath right after I got OUT of the bath. That was last week. finally it is dry enough to continue reading and it is very good, indeed :)
ReplyDeleteDid you find the sequel yet? I did see it at the library, but have forgotten the title :)
Yeah, I did find the sequel. It's called Ballad, and I'm going to do a post on it as soon as I have time. CHOIR CONCERT TODAY! Very busy am I.
ReplyDeleteoh cool! Happy singing :)
ReplyDeleteYay! Ballad was AWESOME!!! "Remember us, so sing the dead, lest we remember you" PURRRRRRRR!
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