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| View Larger Image | Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale
by Holly Black
| | List Price: | $16.99 | | Price: | $11.55 | | You Save: | $5.44 (32%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 286634 | | Studio: | Margaret K. McElderry | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Reading Level: | Young Adult | | Number Of Pages: | 336 | | Publication Date: | April 24, 2007 | | Publisher: | Margaret K. McElderry |
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Product Description
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. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 34 reviews)
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Ironside 
I bought Ironside and Valiant at the same time, although Valiant came before Ironside, i read Ironside first. I wanted to read more about the changeling faerie, Kaye, and her adventures. I then read Valiant. i would recommend to read the books in order to fully understand the plot. the three books flow really nicely. Valiant explains a lot of what Kay and her Friends go through in Ironside. I think that Tithe is the best of all three leading into so much revealing of characters and feelings. I would most definitely recommend one to buy all three of these amazing faerie tales at once. These books will open your mind to new thoughts and expand your imagination to higher creativity's.
August 31, 2008 | |
Don't Bother! 
I bought this book and the two others in the series because it was in the Young Adult section and usually that means that the books are good and mostly clean (no overt sex or foul language). These books are YUCKY!!!!! I could not read them! The "F" word was used constantly. The mother had sex with her teen daughter's boyfriend. It went on and on! What good is a faery-tale if you can't get past the filth?! Don't waste money on these books. I wouldn't read them if they were free.
August 05, 2008 | |
Not so good
This was a waste of reading time. Inconsistent plot (if she's a faerie why is she so human?), the courts are merely subterfuges for warring nations, good and evil are completely neutered. No one is good, there is no truth and we don't even get to enjoy the beauty of faerie land, it is unbearably cruel.
August 04, 2008 | |
Very good. 
I really enjoy all of Holly Black's work. It filled with drama and offers ample opportunity for escapism.
August 03, 2008 | |
Faeryland Enchantment
Holly Black certainly did a wonderful job of creating a world that lives within our own, yet remains oddly at the fringes. Her character's are a variety of folk from the pixies, faeries and beasts...oh, and some humans. She has successfully created a language unique to her characters' world, yet isn't very foreign for we humans. Kaye, the pixie love interest of the Unseelie Court's beautiful and terrible lord, is a changeling, switched at some point in her young life with a human child. She has the ability to hold a veneer of humanity over her green pixie skin. Black calls this "glamour." I jumped in on this third novel, but it didn't take too long to piece things together. Even pixies and seemingly dark lords can love. I kept forgetting that Kaye was green with wings. There is room for all kinds of readers here--older teens and adults. I couldn't stop reading the last three hours of the book. Clever. Now I have to read the first two books...
July 29, 2008 | |
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