Paperback, 336 pages
Published May 2nd 2011 by Scholastic (first published October 1st 2009)
ISBN13
978140712112
edition language
English
original title
Ballad: The Gathering of Faerie
series
characters
setting
In this mesmerizing sequel to "Lament", music prodigy James Morgan has joined his best friend, Deirdre, at a private conservatory for musicians. James' almost unearthly gift for music has attracted the dangerous attentions of Nuala, a soul-snatching faerie muse who fosters and feeds on the creative energies of exceptional humans until they die. Composing beautiful music together leads James and Nuala down an unexpected road of mutual admiration ...and love. Haunted by a vision of raging fire and death, James realizes that Deirdre and Nuala are being hunted by the Fey and plunges into a soulscorching battle with the Queen of the Fey to save their lives
My Review
I wasn't as huge a fan of this one as I was with the first one. The story line and plot was good but compared to the first one it just didn't seem to have the same amount of adrenaline and grasping attention. I liked the fact that you got to see more of James though in this book because you got to see a lot more of his cocky attitude and what it was that he was really all about. I so hoped that James and Dee though would get together. In so many ways they seemed to be perfect for one another and yet at the same time I suppose it would have been too obvious and therefore far to cliche. Nuala was a whole nother world of attention though. It was exciting and vibrant because she seemed to be this badd ass fairy who wanted to get what it was that she wanted, but at the same time you could see that this was some sort of cover up for who and what she really was. It was obvious and clear that she held and had a lot of secrets, secrets she didn't want to uncover and wanted to keep to herself.
There was a lot of mysterious essences to this novel compared to the other one, which I suppose is what made it different, but at the same time it just seemed to be missing that special something, that little something that would really grasp the readers heart into the words so that they could not put the book down. In this novel though for me, the hunky hero was the teacher. It was just the way that he was presented in words and descriptions that you felt like he was some handsome young artichoke who you would drool over if you were the student in his class. I did like the story and I did like the way that it all played out and ended because it was different, but at the same time I just kinda wished for something well..... something a little more that would really have the heart pumping and racing.
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