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Ironside - Holly Black

Description: ISBN 1847380638 / Author: Holly Black / Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy / Publisher: Simon & Schuster Childrens Books / When pixie Kaye declares ... more

Ironside - Holly Black ... herself to Roiben on the day of his coronation, he is forced to send her on a seemingly impossible quest. Now Kaye is forbidden to see or speak to him 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 makes a rash decision to reveal the truth to her mother - that she is a changeling left in place of a human child. Her mother's shock reaction sends Kaye running back to the Faerie realm in search of her human counterpart in a bid to return her to Ironside. But Kaye once again finds herself a pawn in the games of the Seelie Court. Queen Silarial wants Roiben's throne and she will use any means necessary to get it! In this twisted game of wits and power can a pixie outplay a queen?

Newest Review: ... faerie wine, declares herself to him and ends up sent on a seemingly impossible quest. She can't see or speak with Roiben ... more

... unless she can find a faerie who can lie. Her life, insecure at best, seems to completely fall to pieces. She confesses to her mother and sets off to the Seelie Court to recover the original changeling. But in the world of faerie courts, war is brewing and Kaye and her gay friend Corny find themselves involved in the intrigues between Silarial, queen of the Seelie Court and Roiben. The quest takes Kaye and Corny to New York, where they have a go at exploring the urban part of the faerie world, where exiled fey deal in d...more

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Ironside - Holly Black: Feral Fairies (672 words)
by - written on 25/04/08 (Very useful, 134 readings)
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A whole sub-genre of urban (feral) fairy stories seems to have evolved in the blink of an eye, and Holly Black is one of its more vigorous exponents. The Modern Faerie Tales series includes the excellent Tithe, Valiant and the newest volume titled Ironside, which ties together the plot lines of the previous two books while being of a more direct sequel to Tithe. Kaye Fierch is a sixteen year old girl, high-school drop-out with a rock'n'roller mother. Or so she thought until recently. In fact, she is a changeling, a green pixie who has grown up as a human child and only recently discovered her true nature. Ironside picks up two months after the ... Read the complete review