Ballad: DNF

I can’t believe I’m giving a Maggie Stiefvater book 2 stars but here we are

So. Let me just describe the plot of this book and you tell me what other book it sounds like, cool?

A girl in high school feels invisible to everyone around her and has very few friends. Her best friend is in love with her but she doesn’t feel the same way. Out of no where, a pale and beautiful man appears. He seems otherworldly and acts way older than every other 17 year old. She knows something is up but doesn’t care because he’s hot. He eventually tells her that he’s a *insert mythological creature here* and he’s very dangerous and she should stay away from him. He’s killed before and it’s his biggest regret. She still doesn’t care because he’s hot. She discovers that she has some powers similar to those of the *insert mythological creature here* and others of his kind are coming after her because of them. There is a chase, a battle, many near death experiences, but after an extremely anticlimactic fight everything turns out ok.

So that’s the plot of Lament. It’s also the exact plot of Twilight. Like literally the exact same, just with faeries instead of vampires. And before people get upset, I’m not accusing Maggie of plagiarism. I’m just pointing out that Lament has a highly unoriginal plot line. It was extremely fast paced and super confusing to follow. The main character is kind of an idiot. The characters aren’t that interesting. The plot twists were predictable. Overall, there wasn’t a whole lot I liked about it.

Maggie is my all time favourite author (which tbh is the only reason this got 2 stars instead of 1) but this book was just not it. I’m sure if I’d read it when I was like 13 I would have been ALL OVER THIS, but yeah it’s just not great and I’m so sad about that. Still gonna read Ballad because I love Maggie regardless, but yeah. Wasn’t a great book. Please don’t kill me