The Faerie Queen's Deception: Summary

Thrilling, Suspenseful, Romantic. All can be used to describe Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception written by the New York Best Selling author Maggie Stiefvater. This novel is some of Stiefvater’s best work. It’s filled with memorable characters and a plot that will have the readers at their age of their seats as they read this rollercoaster of a book. The protagonist of this fantasy novel is Deirdre Monaghan, an introverted, talented harp player. At one of her high school competitions she meets a mysterious boy by the name of Luke Dillon. She knows nothing about him except that she’s attracted to him. They start to spend more and more time with each other but at the same time she becomes more curious of who he really is. Through him she learns about faeries. She learns that they’re evil and very powerful and for some reason they want to take her away. As her curiosity grows she asks more questions to Luke about them. She is surprised at the fact that he avoids her questions and the ones he does answer, he answers vaguely. Deidre starts to think that Luke is trying to
This novel has layers upon layers of suspense causing the reader to never want to put the book down. Each chapter adds more to the mysteries of who is Luke, why do the faeries want Deidre, and what's Luke’s connection to them. It also contains some of the best characters of any book or movie, each is completely unique and have characteristics that make them relevant to the story. Some of them are mysterious, others are relatable, while some are just plain amusing. James is one of Deidre’s few friends and her best friend, he seems like the type of person that you would want to be your friend. He never stops being sarcastic and making jokes, “‘A little bird told me Dee was hungry…. I rode to the rescue. I know where I can find her some good saturated fats.”’ (Stiefvater 124). In general it’s a great novel but it still has its