Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

Last night, I finished the first book that I decided to read for the RIP IV reading challenge, Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception by Maggie Stiefvater.  And as part of the challenge is to  post reviews on what you read, here is my first one!

The book is about a talented sixteen-year-old harpist named Deirdre and how she learns that she is a cloverhand, someone who can see faeries.  It reminded me a little bit of Wicked Lovely, but its nice to read more about the fey!  Dee meets a mysteriously handsome and charming young man named Luke Dillion who turns out to be the Faerie Queen’s gallowglass, a soulless assassin, who has been ordered to kill her.   Even though everything in her being tells her she should run away from him and that he’s trouble, she is utterly drawn to him.  She also finds out that her and her best friend, James, also a talented musician have extraordinary powers that apparently have been linked with musical genius, Dee’s being telekinetic and James being able to see the future.  Amongst all that is changing around her, she finds herself thrown into Faerie, with James and Luke right there with her.  And you know that at some point she will fall in love, but lets just hope its with the right guy.  The story ends with an obvious link to a sequel, which is supposedly supposed to come out later this Fall, and I hope it will be good.  There were a few loose ends that weren’t tied up at the end and too many unanswered questions.  Needless to say, I’m excited for the next installment!

Today I started my next book for the challenge called, Impossible, by Nancy Werlin.  Stay tuned for my review on that one!

Happy reading everyone!

Please comment on what you are reading!

~Sarah