false <![CDATA[Ironside (The Modern Faerie Tales, #3)]]> 283494 8 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. <P><P>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?<P><P>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.<P><P> 275023 book 24 4 2007 Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale (Book 3) total:2450|5:872|4:887|3:541|2:121|1:29| 2450 9802 3888 229 3 2 false false Tue Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 15:01:12 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 27 11:18:51 -0700 2009 Tithe. The one where Roiben of the Seelie Court finds himself in charge of the Unseelie, and tries to protect his love Kaye, a pixie changeling, by giving her an impossible quest.

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I have been looking forward to this book ever since I finished TITHE, and Holly Black most definitely does not disappoint. IRONSIDE picks up soon after the events in TITHE and VALIANT, and takes the reader on another breathless journey into the am...more...]]> 4 1 false true Sat Dec 06 12:47:34 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 12:48:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 10:58:50 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 16:47:53 -0700 2009 Tithe and Valiant. Roiben was a loyal knight of the Seelie Queen, even after she sent him to serve her sister, the Queen of the Unseelie Court. After countless years of torment and cruelty, he brought about the Unseelie Queen's death and now presides ov...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 14:08:17 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 08:24:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 00:09:26 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 05 04:23:54 -0700 2008 Ironside is the third book in Holly Black's Faerie Tale series, though it's actually a continuation of book one, Tithe. The second book, Valiant, takes place in the same world as books one and three but with different characters, some of which appear here as well. Kay and Roiben's stories howeve...more...]]> 3 3 false false Fri Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 06 09:20:02 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 09:20:57 -0800 2008 Tithe, Ironside picks up two months after Tithe left off. At Roiben's coronation as King of the Unseelie Court, Kaye, drunk on faerie wine, declares herself to Roiben, who in turn sends her on an impossible quest to prove her love to him. Meanwhile, Kaye decides to tell her mother...more...]]> 4 1 false true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 11 13:54:47 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 13:04:40 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 08:25:21 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 08:25:41 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 2 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 11 20:58:58 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 11 21:10:15 -0700 2007 Ironside is the third book in Holly Black's Modern Faery series. I remember quite liking Tithe, enough that I bought Valiant when it came out in hardcover, which I also enjoyed, though not as much as the first. The world Black creates is intriguing. It's dark and gritty--these faeries ain't n...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jun 25 08:50:26 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 07:52:07 -0700 2008
Update: Yep, Ironside was just as good as her other books. I was a little confused in parts, but it was my own fault for not re-reading Tithe first, the book that went before this one. I...more...]]> 2 2 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 10:22:49 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 10:26:04 -0700 2007 Tithe or Valiant, you'll enjoy this one -- I always find myself ending up annoyed by her books, which overrides any enjoyment I get out of them. I don't know, I just feel...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 21 09:00:49 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 21 09:08:33 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 24 15:50:03 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 24 15:50:55 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 12 17:30:54 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 05 17:00:50 -0800 2007
At last Kaye told her mom the truth and the shock and fright her mom gave her droved her back to the unseelie court. In the Unseelie court Ka...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 19:08:37 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 19:32:12 -0700 2008
Ironside is primarily about the characters from Tithe, but several cameos from Valiant are present, too.

Kaye is fiercer, Corny is...well...more pitiful and awesome at the same time. The plot is so...more...]]> 4 0 true true Wed Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 16:44:42 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 17:43:14 -0800 2009 2 I really enjoy your books. The settings of these books make faeries seem real. The way all the places in New York are described as well as in New Jersey, make the events feel like they could have happened yesterday. They way you contrast light and dark is amazing. Most people ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 17:40:47 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 17:42:09 -0800 2009 Valiant, veers away from the Kaye-Roiben story, which is what really interested me. I grabbed Ironside, book 3 in the series, almost as an afterthought at last week’s trip to Borders.

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But when Kaye, drunk on faerie wine, declares herself to him, he sends her on a seemingly impossible quest...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 18:04:16 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 11:05:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=283494