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The Iron King (The Iron Fey, #1)

Julie Kagawa

Start date: March 1, 2011

Finish date: March 31, 2011

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Jan 02, 2012 Marla rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, romance, series, adventure, award-winner, middle-school, young-adult, girl-power, paranormal, recommended-to-me

3.5 stars. Beginning of story sounded vaguely familiar, similar to Wicked Lovely and maybe Tithe. It wasn't a bad book, but just not great and the love story was a little too vague for my taste. Are they involved or not?!

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* Meghan Chase is a very believable teenager
* Queen Mab, since mab is my initials :D
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Dec 15, 2012 Yzabel Ginsberg rated it liked it

Shelves: young-adult, paranormal-supernatural, fae

This book started off a little too slowly to my liking, and the heroine remained bland at best during most of the story.

But I still gave it 3 stars, because I like the author's take on the faerie's world (I like my Fair Folk to be of the cunning kind, with oaths must be upheld, who play on words like they breathe just to trap you, and with Courts politics). I also found the idea of the 'other fae' interesting and logical: indeed, if the Fae exist thanks to human believing in them, then different ...more

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Feb 09, 2012 Aymee rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal, urban-fantasy, young-adult, fantasy, action-adventure

What a wonderful novel! So much to absorb in such a short amount of time. I adore stories about the fey and this, while a much more modern rendition, still holds true to the classics I grew up reading. I do have to admit though, that my favorite character was Grimalkin, the cait sith. But then, he reminded me so much of my own actual cat that I was helpless.

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Jun 12, 2010 Stacie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, 200-in-2025, books-i-own, young-adult, adventure, fantasy, kindle, 200-books-in-2020

Let this be an indication of how much I enjoyed this book; just hours after finishing, I went out and bought the second book in the series. Loved, loved, loved it!!

I'm no stranger to Faery stories, so I really liked to addition of the Iron Fey. Definitely a nice change from other such stories! ...more

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