The Iron King (Harlequin Teen) (edition 2010)

I read a lot of YA and fantasy is my favorite genre. I almost didn't read them when I saw "Harlequin Teen". I hate Harlequin books, I despise the entire Romance genre. I don't object to romance, naturally but I want it to stem from a great plot line and story, not BE the plot line and story.
In any case, I couldn't resist these due to their premise. King Oberon had a half fey daughter who discovers who she is on her 16th birthday when her 4 year old half brother is exchanged for a changling.
An avid Shakespeare lover, who could resist delving into a world with Oberon, Titania, Queen Mab and the irrepressible Robin Goodfellow?
Add into the Nevernever a plot twist stemming from technology and gadgets in our world and you get a whole new world of faery. Julie Kagawa did an amazing job putting together a highly engaging story and I look forward to reading more of her work. ( )

I loved it! This book was very interesting, the main character Meghan is intriguing. Puck her protector is entertaining, and the constant debts that Meghan keeps getting herself...WOW! who knew saying "Thank you" could get you into so much trouble. I'm curious to find out how Meghan's tale will unravel. ( )

The story is about Meghan Chase, a normal girl living in a small town with poor parents and her 4 year-old brother. Meghan discovers that she’s the daughter of a mythical faery king and of course gets involved in a faery war.
For some reason I couldn’t get into The Iron King no matter how hard I tried. It took me almost a week to read and for me that's pretty much unheard of. I had heard such great things about this entire series and I was really looking forward to it but the storyline was just so-so. I loved the parts about Ash. I had heard everybody rave about Ash so I couldn’t wait for him to be introduced… unfortunately that didn’t even happen till almost halfway through the book. The story just lacked originality for me and I would like to continue the series, I just won’t be doing it immediately.
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I first saw this book in my local library, and what caught me was its beautiful cover. It was gorgeous I can’t help but to buy it.

The Iron King told us about the traditional fey court, Summer Court and Winter Court. The interesting thing about Kagawa’s fey court is the new court I had never heard before, The Iron Court. It was made because of todays technologies development and all. And the new Iron Court brought destruction to the fey’s world.

Our main character, Meghan Chase, was just another girl from Earth, with her little brother who claimed that had been living in his closet. Meghan never believe him. Until the day he was gone, kidnapped into the fey’s world.

I personally think that Meghan’s character was a bit undeveloped.
She was not unstable or unconsistent, no. It’s just, she was a bit unmemorable.
Ethan, Meghan’s brother, was better, in my personal opinion. I love it how he seemed to live in is own imaginary world with his imaginary friends.
And there’s Ash, Meghan’s lover and the prince of Winter Court. I didn’t really get what he truly felt toward Meghan. He could be cold and indifferent at one time, but sweet and heart melting the other time. I like his personality, actually. It’s just his inconsistencies that put me off.

The character that intrigued me most was-strangely-Grimalkin, the cat.
It was strange when he could pop out of nowhere and left Meghan when she needs him most. But I think that Grimalkin’s personality was the most unique, and the most distinct from all of The Iron Fey’s cast.

The plot was interesting too, with the new Iron Court, which add the spark that made Kagawa’s fey world unique.
But it’s not really my style when the Meghan’s adventure was (over) throughoutly told, and many journey was made for reasons I cannot understand.

Overall, if you like fey’s book and adventure, I think you could try this book. Many people love it. But for me myself, who’s more an urban-fantasy chick, I think this book is not for me. ( )

I enjoyed this book. Had a little trouble getting totally engrossed in it but once I did I really began to enjoy the characters. I love the way it corresponds with the characters in A Midsummer's Night Dream. ( )