![]() Published by Flux, a division of Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. Luke is clearly not a regular guy, maybe not even human, but Dee falls in love with him, and before long, gets involved in a struggle for the control of all the faeries.Įvaluation: This is a bittersweet love story that manages, in spite of any sadness, to end up as a testament to love and to music and even to Shakespeare, who opened his play Twelfth Night with the exhortation, “If music be the food of love, play on.” I would say that Maggie Stiefvater will go on to write great things, but this book is from 2008, and we already know that turns out to be true! They are each other’s closest confidants until Luke Dillon enters Dee’s life. ![]() Her best friend James plays the bagpipes, and similarly to Dee, is not only an excellent musician but also an outsider. Sixteen-year-old Deirdre Monaghan is a painfully shy but. ![]() Lament focuses on the story of 16-year-old Deirdre (“Dee”) Monoghan, a talented singer, harp player, and a “cloverhand,” or one who can see faeries. Read Lament The Faerie Queens Deception by Maggie Stiefvater available from Rakuten Kobo. ![]() While it’s clear to me that the author has gotten much better with her subsequent books, these are quite good and I was happy to read them. Lament was the first novel Maggie Stiefvater wrote, followed by the sequel/companion book Ballad, out the following year. Only the promise of Maggie Stiefvater’s gets-it-just-right imagination could make me eager to read a book about faeries. ![]()
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