Book Review: Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception by Maggie Steifvater

First love is daunting and undeniably frightening – even more so when you add homicidal faeries and strange gifts into the equation.

Maggie Steifvater’s Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception is a beautifully crafted piece of young-adult fiction, which will appeal to anyone with a love of the fae as they appear in old legends: dark, sinful, seductive, deceptive and, lest we forget, deadly.

Heroine Deidre Monaghan, a painfully real 16-year-old, has uncanny music ability and psychic powers. Her sudden and intense romance with Luke, a boy with a terribly dark and abhorrent past, creates the perfect balance in this teen love story – with a supernatural twist, of course.

Steifvater carefully tackles fragile family issues in this fast-paced piece. I would highly recommend this book to fans of Holly Black, Melissa Mar and Charles De Lint.