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A review by glindaaa
Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie by Maggie Stiefvater
4.0
4 stars! I loved it, it's way better than Lament!
I didn't like Deirdre in Lament but in Ballad I really hate her. I mean what the hell is she doing. I don't understand the text messages yet and I hope I will before the ending, but anyway they annoy me. She annoys me. Really how the hell does she do that, so much!
What I think that is surprising is that Stiefvater made me love this book. I didn't really like Lament and I just read it because I wanted to read this one and halfway through Lament I wanted to finish it to know what happened or what was going to happen.
I can't stop reading this one because I love James. Thank heaven he is the main character right now. He is so sarcastic and he has an amazing style of humour and he is sassy.
Nuala is a person I have to get used to. However I can totally understand that she is not that open. Which I need to know if I like the character. She must be closed because she feeds on those humans and because she is almost dying. I like her when she finds out that she loves James but still calls him loser or whatever. She doesn't give in. (Way better than Deirdre and Luke)Though it's still the thing with killing and murder. Nuala also killed people so I think that if I know that, that would be a total no-go for me.
I also wonder what Eleanor is up to, I don't trust her and I never did. I don't understand how people could. I wonder what would happen to Paul and Sullivan. What the hell Delia is doing in there (should that woman not be killed by someone or atleast looked up in an aslym?!) and maybe also what would happen with Deirdre and her talking about Luke is here, he is not here blablabla.
So I just have to finish this as fast as I could.
[23/01/13]
so I finished the book in the middle of the night and I first want to say that I didn't totally understand the last part with Eleanor and Deirdre and the king of death bladiebla. I mean I missed it that Delia got killed by Sullivan. (in one way or another)
I think that it was very difficult for James to leave Nuala but you see his is realistic more than Deirdre who actually forgot him, he is really in a fight with himself which one to pick. He is praying that he could save both but he know he couldn't and than he is thinking me or the world and so he picks the world, which makes him in my eyes a true hero and I'm glad he got his Nuala back.
I liked Sullivan, I want to say that because I never mentioned him very much. He is just that teacher you have to love because he doesn't do things like idiot teacher will and he trust James. He is like the friend-teacher. Which is good. I'm glad he kind of survived.
And I'm thankful for Paul because: Nuala.
I would like to have a better explination though about Deirdre and Linnet because just: What the hell happened? We never had an answer about how it happened or why and is it just me but it's never mentioned that Linnet was missing, while Deirdre her text messages was sooner then Halloween..Really confusing.
I didn't like Deirdre in Lament but in Ballad I really hate her. I mean what the hell is she doing. I don't understand the text messages yet and I hope I will before the ending, but anyway they annoy me. She annoys me. Really how the hell does she do that, so much!
What I think that is surprising is that Stiefvater made me love this book. I didn't really like Lament and I just read it because I wanted to read this one and halfway through Lament I wanted to finish it to know what happened or what was going to happen.
I can't stop reading this one because I love James. Thank heaven he is the main character right now. He is so sarcastic and he has an amazing style of humour and he is sassy.
Nuala is a person I have to get used to. However I can totally understand that she is not that open. Which I need to know if I like the character. She must be closed because she feeds on those humans and because she is almost dying. I like her when she finds out that she loves James but still calls him loser or whatever. She doesn't give in. (Way better than Deirdre and Luke)Though it's still the thing with killing and murder. Nuala also killed people so I think that if I know that, that would be a total no-go for me.
I also wonder what Eleanor is up to, I don't trust her and I never did. I don't understand how people could. I wonder what would happen to Paul and Sullivan. What the hell Delia is doing in there (should that woman not be killed by someone or atleast looked up in an aslym?!) and maybe also what would happen with Deirdre and her talking about Luke is here, he is not here blablabla.
So I just have to finish this as fast as I could.
[23/01/13]
so I finished the book in the middle of the night and I first want to say that I didn't totally understand the last part with Eleanor and Deirdre and the king of death bladiebla. I mean I missed it that Delia got killed by Sullivan. (in one way or another)
I think that it was very difficult for James to leave Nuala but you see his is realistic more than Deirdre who actually forgot him, he is really in a fight with himself which one to pick. He is praying that he could save both but he know he couldn't and than he is thinking me or the world and so he picks the world, which makes him in my eyes a true hero and I'm glad he got his Nuala back.
I liked Sullivan, I want to say that because I never mentioned him very much. He is just that teacher you have to love because he doesn't do things like idiot teacher will and he trust James. He is like the friend-teacher. Which is good. I'm glad he kind of survived.
And I'm thankful for Paul because: Nuala.
I would like to have a better explination though about Deirdre and Linnet because just: What the hell happened? We never had an answer about how it happened or why and is it just me but it's never mentioned that Linnet was missing, while Deirdre her text messages was sooner then Halloween..Really confusing.