2.5 stars. This reminded me a lot of the Nora Roberts Guardians Trilogy, which is both a compliment and a complaint. But it was light and frothy and f2.5 stars. This reminded me a lot of the Nora Roberts Guardians Trilogy, which is both a compliment and a complaint. But it was light and frothy and for the season. I just wish it had been fifty or so pages longer. And I wish the conflict that split our hero and heroine apart in the first place had been addressed, either more or at all really. But. I had fun reading this and I'm interested to see more about the other Penhallows....more
I liked this book in the sense that I feel like I know Maggie Stiefvater a lot better as an author having read it. I dislike it in the sense that thisI liked this book in the sense that I feel like I know Maggie Stiefvater a lot better as an author having read it. I dislike it in the sense that this is very clearly a first book, from a different time in YA publishing, and also in a very different style than what I have come to really love from Maggie Stiefvater books. I wonder, had I read this when it was first published, before The Scorpio Races or The Raven Boys or the rest, would I still have found it a little juvenile? Part of me thinks the answer is yes: Typically, faerie stories have to find me at a very particular and nebulous kind of moment to work for me. And also: this book IS a little juvenile (see a different time in YA publishing). I liked Dee and James in a generic way, but found the romance plot to be too silly and the faeries too cartoonishly villainous (my problem with 99% of faerie books). Lament lacked the ethereal, nuanced nature of good and evil that I love about the rest of Maggie Stiefvater's work. I admit to skimming a fair bit toward the second half because I just wasn't engaged with what was going on with this (admittedly limited) plot.
Maggie Stiefvater has written several books I love a lot and, as I said, I feel like I understand her better as a writer than I did before flipping the last page of this book. And, weirdly, I feel like I know HER better having read this. So, for all my complaints, and despite my (maybe too generous) two star rating, I'm glad I read this book....more
This series was full stop masterful. Clever and interesting and daring. I loved the world building and the story telling and the characters. I found mThis series was full stop masterful. Clever and interesting and daring. I loved the world building and the story telling and the characters. I found myself trying to make my audiobook listening experience last as long as I could because I didn't want this to be over....more
This series keeps getting better and better. I know a few reviews I've seen complained about the pacing in this book compared to the first, but I thinThis series keeps getting better and better. I know a few reviews I've seen complained about the pacing in this book compared to the first, but I think those people are Very Wrong. I just really, really love this series. It is incredibly immersive and I am all in on these characters in this world....more
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