false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173279413m/266607.jpg 266607 14 When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system.<P><P>But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. And when one talks Val into tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature with whom they are all involved, Val finds herself torn between her newfound affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming. <P><P> 588218 book 2005 Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie (Book 2) total:2951|5:910|4:1005|3:764|2:211|1:61| 2951 11345 4461 334 3 6 true false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 20:28:55 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 19 19:29:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 4 false false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Aug 19 14:13:49 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 19 14:14:30 -0700 2007 I was a little more than dissapointed, though, when I read Tithe.
The language was very vulgar, and the characters not very lickable at all. ...more...]]> 1 3 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 24 08:33:46 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 08:57:03 -0700 2008
Strong words, I know, but let's just have it out. I continued reading primarily because Black's agent was someone who I was interested in contacting to represent my own work.

Trite, lame and basically a waste of tree. The plot was blur...more...]]> 1 2 false false Wed Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 15:51:33 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 16:28:38 -0700 2008 3 2 false false Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 04 16:53:19 -0800 2009 Wed Aug 05 20:48:34 -0700 2009 2 a. they don't want their own children, whether young or old teenagers, to be exposed to such drug/profanity use, even though most teenagers have already been exposed in high school se...more...]]> 5 4 false false Fri Dec 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 07 13:01:23 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 11:08:16 -0800 2008 once

Valiant by Holly Black is a very intense teen-fantasy novel about a seventeen-year-old girl named Valerie Russell-also known as: Val. Valiant is Holly Black’s second novel. The first to her collection is Tithe. Both of these books are beautifully written...more...]]> 5 3 false true Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 02:25:50 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 26 04:03:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false true Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 16:40:11 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 16:43:46 -0800 2008 Beauty and the Beast'. Val doesn't entirely mean to run away from home, but when home betrays her it's easy to not go back yet - to stay in the dark world of faeries and addiction she's stumbled into in New York. She's drawn further into that world wh...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 14:44:07 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 14:54:03 -0700 2007
Until Val leaves for a date with her boyfriend one night, returns home to...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 24 19:19:35 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 01 06:40:40 -0700 2007 Valiant didn't start up where Tithe ended. However, I quickly got over it.

This story follows 17-year-old Val Russell who runs away from her dysfunctional home within the first few chapters. In a moment of shedding her confusion, she embraces a new identit...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 06 12:49:53 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 06 13:03:30 -0700 2007
Ms Black does not get caught up in o...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Sep 10 00:06:25 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 10 02:54:45 -0700 2007 Tithe high. While I certainly missed those other characters, I personally found many of the new characters to be more dimensional and mor...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 11 18:41:21 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 26 23:05:10 -0700 2009
Val ends up living in a subway tunnel with a bunch of homeless teens - finds out ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Dec 06 12:48:19 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 12:48:59 -0800 2008
But there's something eerily beguiling about Val...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Nov 27 19:05:46 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 10:52:09 -0800 2008
But there's something eerily beguiling about V...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 07:19:42 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 07:22:24 -0800 2009
Valiant is about a teen named Val whose world is pretty much wrecked when she walks in...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 16 18:43:28 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 18:50:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 02:34:46 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 23:58:47 -0700 2009 Holly Black's modern faerie tales brings the world of Folk to a darker and earthier place. From the original grit of the first novel, this contemporary version of Beauty and the Beast has a whole lot to offer.

At first you may wonder what it has to do with the se...more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Apr 15 22:23:01 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 22:27:02 -0700 2009 As the title states, this is a modern fairy tale complete with mermaids, trolls, and the like. Val becomes a run-away after catching her mother and boyfriend together. She is further betrayed when she discovers her best friend Ruth knew of the affair, but had failed to tell her. With...more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Jul 12 03:38:18 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 21:33:18 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 03:38:18 -0700 2009
I'm finding this novel so unpleasant that I felt I had to stop to complain about it. I'd read a lot of negative reviews from other goodreads-ers before I got started and I remember thinkin...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=266607