A review by scent_of_the_rain
Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie by Maggie Stiefvater
4.0
Again, this will not be my favourite Maggie Stiefvater book. But that’s ok.
I really like the fact that this one follows James instead Dee. She was not precisely bad, but
She wouldn’t be my best friend either.
Speaking of best friends, this book confirmed what I suspected in the first in the series, James & Dee are not really best friends. She doesn’t care much for his feelings and he said himself that he didn’t ever told her his true feelings/thoughts. Only at the end did James show some dedication to their friendship.
I really like James, he is a great character, and it was fun to be inside his head. I love his relationship with other people, like Paul & Sullivan. Dee on the other hand comes as selfish and kind of cruel. And way more stupid than in the previous book, maybe because it’s James’ perspective.
The love interest, Nuala, is cool but not really interesting.
I’m somehow torn because I don’t know what to feel about the ending, but It’s good that the format is how it is, that each book has different lead character and it wraps that character story somehow. That way I didn’t get depressed by the fact there is no more books in the series. But it does make me wonder who would be the lead in the next. I hope it would be Paul, he is so dorky and adorable.
I really like the fact that this one follows James instead Dee. She was not precisely bad, but
She wouldn’t be my best friend either.
Speaking of best friends, this book confirmed what I suspected in the first in the series, James & Dee are not really best friends. She doesn’t care much for his feelings and he said himself that he didn’t ever told her his true feelings/thoughts. Only at the end did James show some dedication to their friendship.
I really like James, he is a great character, and it was fun to be inside his head. I love his relationship with other people, like Paul & Sullivan. Dee on the other hand comes as selfish and kind of cruel. And way more stupid than in the previous book, maybe because it’s James’ perspective.
The love interest, Nuala, is cool but not really interesting.
I’m somehow torn because I don’t know what to feel about the ending, but It’s good that the format is how it is, that each book has different lead character and it wraps that character story somehow. That way I didn’t get depressed by the fact there is no more books in the series. But it does make me wonder who would be the lead in the next. I hope it would be Paul, he is so dorky and adorable.