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Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception (Books of Faerie #1) by Maggie Stiefvater | Review

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Paperback

325 pages

Published October 8th 2008 by Flux

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 . . .

Lament is a dark faerie fantasy that features authentic Celtic faerie lore, plus cover art and interior illustrations by acclaimed faerie artist Julia Jeffrey.

Now, What I Thought:

This book starts off with a 16 year old girl named Deirdre Monaghan. It's actually a bit of a mouthful, and thats why people call her Dee. Being a musician, she is extremely talented in both the harp and vocals. You'll find out why in the book.
As she's in the girls bathroom she meets a boy (referred to looking as old as a senior) named Luke Dillon, but she already knew who he was from her cryptic dreams she'd been having. At first this was all weird for me to read because of the circumstances: a girl meets an older boy in the girls bathroom, holding her hair as she vomits... Then instantly knows him because he had occurred in her dreams?????? Pretty weird .. at least to me.. But once you get further into the book, it starts to finally make sense.

I'v read this in a day and I cant express how much you should all read this :) If you like romantic faerie themed books, then go ahead and read this one!

For some odd reason, I'v been having a craving for Faerie-related/themed books. So I found this book on one of the threads created on Goodreads. I was immediately intrigued because of the perfect summary and not to mention the amazing book cover! I don't know why, but I love this cover!!
Then of course I saw who wrote this.. thats basically when I knew this book was going amazing! If you don't know yet, Maggie Stiefvater, is an amazing writer! Many can agree that she is most defiantly creative :)
You might know her from her amazing series, The Wolves of Mercy Falls, or even The Raven Cycle.
ANYWAYS, this book did not disappoint! At first, I was thinking, hmm maybe I have too much of a high expectation for this one, but of course, I was wrong! My ideal faerie book would be, Julie Kagawa's series, The Iron Fey. At least that was the one I was going to most compare this one with. So of course, I expected this book to be just as good. Now, while Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception was a great book, I probably won't continue the series.
Definitely worth the read, if it intrigues you of course! Not Disappointed in this one thats for sure :)