Liz Miguez's Reviews > Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

I don't know why I even continued reading this book after the first chapter. I knew I wouldn't like it. It is like Twilight revamped, but without the vamps (pun intended?).

So here goes (spoiler alert!): Girl meets mysterious Boy who has no personality but is really hot, and Girl decides she is in love with him. Boy is supposed to kill Girl (oops!). Girl finds out Boy has murdered 100s of people and is supposed to murder her. Girl decides she is still in love with Boy even though he has murdered 100s of people and has no personality (oh right, I forgot. That doesn't matter because he is hot!) Boy decides that he will not murder Girl he has known for 1 week because he is "in love" with her, too. Faeries try to kill Boy, Girl and Girl's Best Friend. Girl totally forgets about her dying Best Friend because she had left the room where he was lying, half dead. Girl wants to save Boy's life instead, because Boy will *probably* die when he gets his soul back. Boy tells girl that she should probably save Best Friend because Boy has actually lived for OVER A THOUSAND YEARS and Best Friend is 16. Best Friend is saved and then completely ignored. Boy turns into fairy. THE END.

Truly, these characters have no redeeming qualities and very little personality. Character development is important! Girls don't fall in love with ideas, they fall in love with people! After they've known them for longer than a week, preferably. I suppose I understand why this type of story appeals to younger readers (In a book, it's easy to insert yourself, your crush, etc. into the characters if they are poorly characterized "ideas" instead of real people), but there are so many GOOD YA books out there. Go pick up one of those, not this one.