Ironside: This is a direct sequel to Tithe. We’re introduced to some really cool fae and some really interesting themes around friendship! Val is rough around the edges but understandably so, and she falls in with the fae in the most interesting of ways. The betrayed MC, Val, goes through a pretty stunning transformation in this book from a bit of a pushover to a unique, tenacious heroine. Valiant: This is a standalone title, but the storyline in this books lends some color to Ironside so I recommend reading it as well. The story is told through Kaye’s perspective: a lovable little badass with a hare-brained mother (Bella Swan has NOTHING on this girl!) and an attitude that lends favor to a discovery she wasn’t intended to make. Tithe: Ah, the introduction to our Babely Lord Rath Roiben Rye! We know him a little from her newer series, but his development in this book was so cool. if you haven’t read her earlier fae works, Tithe: A Modern Fairy Tale, Valiant, and Ironside, I urge you to check out these books! I never see them recommended or even mentioned on this sub, and I thought I’d point out any of the newer readers to Holly’s works to these books! They are books in the same universe, and they are just as well written as her newer series. I’ve had a soft spot for her always because of those works, and seeing this re-emergence for her as an author that is still able to connect to a young audience is exciting. Ironside was nominated for both a Locus Award and a Mythopoeic Award in 2008.Late-20’s F here and I want to preface this by saying: I am SO SO happy to see Holly Black constantly getting love in this sub for The Cruel Prince series! I read Holly Black’s earlier fae works as a youngin’ and really related to her edgy, kinda badass/kinda soft-hearted lead characters. In this game of wits and weapons, can a pixie outplay a queen? Awards Silarial wants Roiben’s throne, and she will use Kaye, and any means necessary, to get it. But once back in the faerie courts, Kaye finds herself a pawn in the games of Silarial, queen of the Seelie Court. Her mother’s shock and horror sends Kaye back to the world of Faerie to find her human counterpart and return her to Ironside. 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. 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. But when Kaye, drunk on faerie wine, declares herself to Roiben, he sends her on a seemingly impossible quest. Uneasy in the midst of the malevolent Unseelie Court, pixie Kaye is sure of only one thing - her love for Roiben. In the realm of Faerie, the time has come for Roiben’s coronation. Home » The Modern Faerie Tales » Ironside: A Modern Faerie Tale

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