WOW! Just WOW.
I had planned to read this book like a year ago, but when I began I was in such a crappy mood I couldn't enjoy it at all so I stopped.
Good thing too, with a baggage of another year of reading and new wants I read this book in a totally different way that I would have then.
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 . . . via Goodreads
I loved reading this book seriously. First, because it had Fairy Lore (My college diploma is on Celtic Myths :D) and secondly because it was dark in a way. YES! Faeries are not nice, they are malicious and cruel and psychopaths. Even Tink tried to kill Wendy now that I think about it. Anyhoo!
Lament is a very musical novel, no duh. And it's even more enjoyable if you read it with the right soundtrack. (How creepy was when I was reading this line: "Come away, human child, whispered the voice in breathy timbre, come away from the pain of the world." and the song that was playing in my headphones was Stolen Child sung by Loreena McKennitt).
Luke and Dee were sweet together yet I still had a hope for James because I liked him from the first line he came up. He is a good friend, protective, and funny and honest. And he can pull off a kilt and still be amazing has major scores in my book.
The end was brilliant, at least for me. It was like an Irish Ballad with heroes and such and such, you know ^_^.
*runs to read Ballad*
A.M Bells
Great review! I really enjoyed this one as well when I read it, though when I attempted to read the sequel I just could not get into it.
Oh, don't scare me!
Oh, You decorated again your house.