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Anyone Else In Love With Lament and Ballad Like I Am?
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Nov 29, 2009 07:46PM
I just wanted to see if any of you have read either of these books and if you LOVED them as much as I do. Maggie Stiefvater has become my current favorite author. I love her witty and sarcastic writing style. And at the same time she is making you laugh, she is breaking your heart! Tell me what you guys think!
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I have recntly read all 3 of her books, and I couldn't agree with you more, I liked ballad a little more than lament, however both books were great. I cried real tears at the end of SHIVER. I can't wait for LINGER.
Woo! Someone else that loves her as much as I do :D[image error]
I was surprised how much I ended up liking Ballad because I am totally obsessed with Luke, but it still ended up being really really good! I loved Nuala! I totally pictured her as the actress that plays Alice Cullen in my head. I don't know why really, but I think she would be a good fit if it ever got turned into a movie. I just think she would make a good faery I guess :D
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I can't wait for Linger to come out either! I was re-reading parts of Shiver the other day. I have already forgotten how much I really love that book and how well it is written! Plus not to mention that Sam is a hawtie too!
Oh, and I hope hope hope there will be more books about Luke and Dee!!!
I really liked James, he made me smile a lot. And luke is great as well. I think there is still much to be told about all of them. I just fell in love with Sam.
First post for me having just joined. Love Maggie too. Haven't got to Ballad yet, it's patiently waiting for me but loved Lament and Shiver and can't wait for Linger.
Welcom Bill. Glad to have you! Can't wait for July so I can read Linger!!!! Rhonda - I totally loved James in Ballad too. Not as much in Lament but seeing how he saw himself really made me like him a lot more in Ballad!
Words cannot express how much I loved both of those books....I truly have been searching the internet with any glimpse of words about her making more books in this series. I can't find anything!!! I do remember reading somewhere (which I can't find now of course) that she intended the series to have 5 books. If I find it again I will post it of course.
For sure Tracy! If you find it let me know! It's been killing me! I love love love the story and need more of Luke!
I send Maggie Steifvater and Email after I read SHIVER and she replied.......trayc74 on January 11th, 2010 12:26 am (UTC)
Your Talent
I just read Shiver and I just want to say "Thank YOU". I loved everything about this book. I don't even know that you'll ever read this, but it feels good to know that I sent it anyway.
I read an interview you did about crying during books, and if you could make readers cry? I cried during Shiver, more than a few times....b/c it was sad but mostly b/c in most parts it was perfect. I loved how the story went back and forth between Sam and Grace and I loved the ending. I read the last few pages like 5 times and it felt the same everytime.
Thank You doesn't do it just justice.
Many of us over at Goodreads would also like to know if there will be more books after Ballad? I needed to throw that out there just incase you did read this!
Again, Thank you and you are my new favorite Author.
Tracy
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m_stiefvater on January 11th, 2010 01:26 pm (UTC)
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Tracy, thank you so much for this lovely comment. I'm so glad that you loved SHIVER! And as to BALLAD, in my head, there is a book following it, but it's behind a few other books to be written at the moment!
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Woo Hoo! I am so excited!! I can handle waiting for sure :D.
I'm new to Goodreads and this is my first post. I just finished Shiver and am now reading Lament.
Shiver touched me so much that I cried a few times while reading it, tears of heartache and tears of happiness. I really loved Grace and Sam. Impatiently waiting for Linger...
I'm almost halfway through Lament and am loving Dee and Luke too. Not sure where this story is going but I hope it makes me cry like Shiver did.
Shiver touched me so much that I cried a few times while reading it, tears of heartache and tears of happiness. I really loved Grace and Sam. Impatiently waiting for Linger...
I'm almost halfway through Lament and am loving Dee and Luke too. Not sure where this story is going but I hope it makes me cry like Shiver did.
Shannen wrote: "I'm new to Goodreads and this is my first post. I just finished Shiver and am now reading Lament.Shiver touched me so much that I cried a few times while reading it, tears of heartache and tea..."
Oh Shannen I'm kinda jealous your reading this. - read it a little while back (actually all 3 of Maggie's books) and I loved em!!! First time thru is so awesome. I cried my eyes out in Shiver and a few times in Lament. Don't forget to read Ballad after Lament...that too was a great book. ENJOY, your in for a fun ride.
Already have Ballad downloaded on my Kindle! I was so sad to be done with Shiver but I'll read it again before Linger comes out. I'm a Twilight freak and it was the first YA book to make me bawl since New Moon. I'm thinking there will be tears in Lament too but not like with Shiver. :)
Finished Lament last weekend and there were definitely tears. I'm reading Ballad now and I have to say that while I love James and Nuala, I do NOT like Dee in this book. She is a whiney thing. Can't wait to see how this one ends!
Okay, I'm not sure if this thread is still active but I just finished both Lament and Ballad and I really enjoyed reading them. I think it's the best faerie urban fantasy book that I've come across (I've read Melissa Marr and Holly Black's books). That said, I think I'll wait for Shiver to come out in paperback before I get it.Shannen, I'd have to agree with you that I didn't like Dee in Ballad! I kept thinking she was being so selfish.
Chachic - I think Shiver is better than Lament and WAY better than Ballad. No clue when it is going to come out in paperback though.
I also didn't like Dee in Ballad. She was completely selfish and obnoxious. When I think of her heroic actions from Lament, I have a hard time relating them to who she became in Ballad.And although I always love Maggie's writing style and beautiful prose, Shiver was significantly better than Lament and Ballad for me, too. It's like everything had been taken up a level.
Lament was just ok for me, so I did not continue with Ballad. Shiver was much better and I am glad I read it first, because I likely would not have read it if I had read Lament first.
Okay, three of you are saying that Shiver is better than the faerie books. I think my resolve to wait for the book to come out in paperback is not as solid as I thought it was. I'm tempted to get it already.Laura, I know! It seemed like Dee was a totally different person in Ballad. I don't like that she became that way just because Luke wasn't in her life at that time. I would've loved for Dee and James to be still great friends. I mean they went through life and death situations in Lament so that has to count for something.
Come on Chachic, you know you want to. ;)
I just picked up Lament from my library...cant wait to get it started!!
I read Lament and Ballad both within one weekend and I loved both books even though I was kind of disappointed at the end of Lament. Couldn't believe that this was really the end... was searching for more pages. Right after I started Ballad and this was great. I loved the teasing dialoges... Maggie did a really great job on those books!!!
I just got Lament from the library a couple days ago. I've heard such good things about it, I can't wait to read it!
Nice! Maggie did say she is writing more to the story eventually. So I think that we may get our happy ending (fingers crossed)after all. :D. In the mean time the new book Linger, comes out next month!!!! Can't wait!
Can't wait either for Linger... already counting the days LOL
Me too! Eclipse and a new Twilight book this month and then Linger next month!!! I have been waiting for this month for a long time :D! LOL!
You mean the "Bree Tannen" book, Leana? I am not very excited so far...
yeah. It's nothing big, cause it's basically nothing that we don't already know. But I am a fan of Stephenie Meyer's books, so I have been desperate for her to write anything!!!
I hope Maggie writes more about the characters in Lament and Ballad after she finishes the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy.
Chachic wrote: "I hope Maggie writes more about the characters in Lament and Ballad after she finishes the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy."Straight from Maggie's mouth, she will come back to the series, but not sure when. She responded to this question at the beginning of the year from another member here on Goodreads that had sent her a message asking her that. I do believe it is mentioned somewhere close to the beginning of this thread, but I can't remember if it is on this one or another.
I had read Shiver first and loved it so I wanted to find more from Maggie. So I found Lament and ended up loving it more than Shiver. After that I read Ballad, and although it wasn't what I wanted it to be exactly, I ended up loving it almost as much as Shiver. So now I have to say, I am truely a Maggie Stiefvater fan!!! I am glad to see you guys are too.
Me too! I sent her a postcard to tell her that I'm a fan and that I read her blog and follow her on Twitter. I am hoping to receive a Wolves of Mercy Falls postcard in response. :)
Ooh, sweet!!! If you do, you so need to post it on Twitter! Do you mind if I follow you on there? I am new to Twitter, but I love it
No, I don't mind! I'm new as well. My Twitter ID is chachictweets. :)
I am absolutely a fan fo Maggie Stiefvater's books! But Shiver is still - well so far - my favourite one! I cried out real tears in the end - does not happen very often to me while reading LOL. Lament was great, but the end was kind of disappointing to me - I really hoped for a happy ending! And Ballad was really good... The sacrasm within the dialogues were simply great and of course the happy ending :-) Think in this matter I am kind of old-fashioned!
Yay Jackie! I was surprised how emotional I got at the end of Ballad. I was reading in the car with my husband while he drove. And I couldn't stop crying. And him being a guy who wants to fix things that are wrong tried to tell me to stop reading it and then tried to through my book out the window so I wouldn't be so sad. It was actually really funny and he wasn't really going to through it out. I think the thing that is tough to remember and like with Lament is that it was technically a happy ending. The three main characters lived. It's just no one ended up in a relationship with anyone else. So I didn't know that going into Ballad it wasn't really about Bree. And was sad the story wasn't continuing the way I wanted it to. But I have faith that Maggie will bring Luke and Bree together :D. I have a huge Luke crush!
Chachic, going to find you on Twitter right now :D
Leana, think you mean Luke & DEE (Deidra) LOL. I had more a Sam crush... But Luke was also great!
I was content with the ending of Lament, kind of like the ending in Shiver. I had a feeling that Luke and Dee will end up together.
Oh, wow! I can't believe I got her name wrong. He he he. That's funny :D. Not really sure where Bree came from, other than sounding similar to Dee. But yes, you are right. LOL. And I totally have a crush on Sam, but I so can't not love the bad boy. Self destructive tendencies, I guess. But Luke trumped Sam for me for sure.
I agree Chachic. It's Maggie's way of writing. She doesn't give you something that you are desperately wanting to happen without taking something away. I think it's the whole tie in that she did with the Irish songs that she kept mentioning. It made Lament and Ballad just as poetic as Shiver to me.
Totally agree, Leana. And I am asking where those irish influence came from... But loved it really.Maybe Bree came from the 5th Twilight book - don't know if you are in Twilight?
I am sure you are right Jackie. I keep talking about the book coming out this week too, so I am sure that is where it came from. That is funny. Shows how I'm really good at remembering names :D
I finished Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception a couple days ago and am almost half way through Ballad: The Gathering of Faerie. I really enjoyed Lament and am really into Ballad. I loved James' character and am excited I get so much more of him in Ballad!
To answer the thread question "no". * mentally picturing everyone scrolling to the top of the thread* (sorry I have been wanting to do that for weeks!)
Heidi wrote: "To answer the thread question "no". * mentally picturing everyone scrolling to the top of the thread* (sorry I have been wanting to do that for weeks!)"
That's funny! How come you didn't like it? Has it taken you a while to read it and that is why you were waiting so long to post your comment? It took me a month to get through the last book I read, so I totally know how that goes.
Glad you are liking them Lani. I was for sure more of a Luke fan than James, but I did end up liking James a lot from Ballad. And I thought Dee wasn't annoying in Lament and she drove me crazy in Ballad. Funny how that happens!
Dee was really annoying in Ballad! It's so weird though because she wasn't like that in Lament. It was like she's a totally different person.
Leana - I read it a few months ago, but everytime I see the title to this thread (everyone else in love with Ballad and Lament) I just felt the strong urge to answer "no", so I finally did. I have said this before, but I did not like Lament because there was NO backstory. It was just "here you go" right into the middle of a story. I kept thinking I would find out more info, but no such luck.
I agree Chachic! I think it had to do with the 1st person perspective being told from her and then from James. But still.... granted she went through a lot though. No worries Heidi. You are the first to say you don't like the books that has posted here. Some have said it on other places. I have to disagree with the backstory though. It was what Luke went through and how he lost his soul {even though I have a hard time believing he could have cared so deeply for Dee if he really didn't have one} and how he came into the service of the Queen of the Fae.
Everyone is entitled to their opinions though.
Dee still kind of annoyed me in Lament, mainly with her self absorbtion. i.e. her thought process near the end involving the daoine sidhe's help (trying to stay away from spoilers). And then she's upped the anty in Ballad. I just like James more than her, so she gets on my nerves.
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