The Modern Faerie Tales · Book 3
Ironside
- Published
- 1 January 2007
- Pages
- 295
- ISBN-13
- 9781847393449
- Type
- novel
About this book
Ironside closed Holly Black's Modern Faerie Tales trilogy in 2007 at 295 pages, returning directly to changeling Kaye's story and her relationship with the faerie knight Roiben as a direct sequel to Tithe. It completes the grimy, morally indifferent modern-New-Jersey faerie world Black established across the trilogy, the harder-edged template she'd later be traced back to by readers who found her through the gentler Elfhame books.
Its place in The Modern Faerie Tales
Ironside is book 3 in the The Modern Faerie Tales series. It follows Valiant. See the full The Modern Faerie Tales reading order.
Long before Elfhame's gilded courts made faerie romance a genre unto itself, Holly Black was writing faeries as genuinely dangerous, grimy, and morally indifferent to human life in this trilogy set in a modern New Jersey where the fae hide in plain sight among mall parking lots and rundown apartments. Each book follows a different protagonist -- runaway Kaye, who discovers she's a changeling; art student Valerie, fleeing an abusive relationship into an underground world of vampiric faeries; and Roiben, a faerie…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781847393449