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Ironside (2007)

by Holly Black

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Series: Modern Tales of Faerie (3)

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Maybe shy of four stars but easily tops 3-1/2. I really should have read this sooner after the first two books. The first two were so independent of each other that it didn't occur to me that the characters of the first two would come together in the third. It wasn't critical but it would have been advantageous.

This was a very good series. The Spiderwick Chronicles were very much fun. I think I'll be moving White Cat to one of my short lists now that it's finally out. ( )
  Yona | May 2, 2013 |
Like Tithe, I finished Ironside, its sequel, in a day. It wrapped everything up very well, and I really liked how it brought in characters from Valiant. ( )
  shojo_a | Apr 4, 2013 |
Like Tithe, I finished Ironside, its sequel, in a day. It wrapped everything up very well, and I really liked how it brought in characters from Valiant. ( )
  shojo_a | Apr 4, 2013 |
I ended up liking this a lot better than Tithe, mostly because I think Kaye’s dilemmas were a lot more drawn out in this. You really get the sense that she’s struggling with her mortal side and whether or not she’s truly going to go back to Faerie. Also, Corny seemed like he had a lot more to do in this book, particularly with trying to overcome his own fears and shortcomings. This is another book that dealt heavily with Court politics, and I liked how the two sides tried to explore and sabotage one another. It also blends characters from the first and second books seamlessly (although NEEDS MOAR VAL) without treading too far back on the previous plots. While the ending is open-ended about the fate of the Modern Courts, it’s a good conclusion to the series as a whole. ( )
  princess-starr | Mar 30, 2013 |
An enjoyable faerie story, that shows the dark side of the fey. Continuation of a series. ( )
  SparklePonies | Mar 18, 2013 |
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To my parents, Rick and Judy, for not sticking a hot poker down my throat or otherwise attempting to trade me back to the faeries.
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Despite her casting him down to this place, despite the fresh bruises on his skin and the blood under his nails, Roiben still loved Lady Silarial.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0689868219, Paperback)

In the realm of Faerie, the time has come for Roiben's coronation. Uneasy in the midst of the malevolent Unseelie Court, pixie Kaye is sure of only one thing -- her love for Roiben. But when Kaye, drunk on faerie wine, declares herself to Roiben, he sends her on a seemingly impossible quest. Now Kaye can't see or speak to Roiben unless she can find the one thing she knows doesn't exist: a faerie who can tell a lie.

Miserable and convinced she belongs nowhere, Kaye decides to tell her mother the truth -- that she is a changeling left in place of the human daughter stolen long ago. Her mother's shock and horror sends Kaye back to the world of Faerie to find her human counterpart and return her to Ironside. But once back in the faerie courts, Kaye finds herself a pawn in the games of Silarial, queen of the Seelie Court. Silarial wants Roiben's throne, and she will use Kaye, and any means necessary, to get it. In this game of wits and weapons, can a pixie outplay a queen?

Holly Black spins a seductive tale at once achingly real and chillingly enchanted, set in a dangerous world where pleasure mingles with pain and nothing is exactly as it appears.

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As the possessor of Roibin's true name, sixteen-year-old Kaye returns to Faeryland to try and complete a nearly-impossible quest that will release him from the spell of the faery queen who holds him in thrall.

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