Title: Lament
Author: Maggie Steifvater
Genre: Teen Fiction
Comments:
Lament is about a 16 year old girl
named Dee, who has a strange gift, she is a cloverhand. A cloverhand is someone
who can see faeries. There is also Luke, who is a assassin from the faeries
world, who must kill people because an evil faerie Queen keeps his soul inside
a cage. Their paths cross when the meet at Dee’s music competition in the bathroom
while she vomits from nerves. They wind up performing a duet together, and star
spending more together. What Dee doesn’t know though is that their encounter
was no chance and Luke’s next target is in fact her. Though through a twist of
fate, Luke finds himself falling in love with Dee, preventing him from killing
her and making his “master” the Queen, quite angry. They must fight to stay together, with many
outside forces pushing them apart, and the journey they go on is filled with
surprises.
I
enjoyed the book Lament, because it was very similar to another series by
Maggie Steifvater, called the Shiver series, which it reminded me of. The style
of writing was quite familiar, and one that is associated is Steifvater, yet
one difference that sets Lament apart from the Shiver series is that this book
is not written in two different points of view but only from Dee’s view. I
thought that the character’s were well developed in this book, enough to make
someone either entirely love them or hate them and I felt the plot was well
developed enough so that it was an interesting read. All in all, Maggie
Steifvater did not disappoint with Lament, I would give it a 4-4.5/5 as a
rating.
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