Valiant
- Published
- 1 January 2005
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN-13
- 9781534484535
- Type
- novel
About this book
Valiant followed in 2005, the shortest entry at 256 pages, turning to art student Valerie as she flees an abusive relationship into an underground world of vampiric faeries.
Key facts about Valiant
Valiant is a novel by Holly Black. Readers have had it since 2005. It runs to 256 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Valiant. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781534484535 to find the main one.
Valiant is book 2 of 3 in The Modern Faerie Tales series. The series has 3 published books. However, the series starts with Tithe (2002).
Additionally, Holly Black writes The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Curse Workers and Magisterium, plus 3 more series. Those series sit on our fantasy and romantic fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Thief of Night is the latest published Holly Black book on file, from 23 September 2025.
About Holly Black
Holly Black is an American author who has spent over two decades as one of the defining voices in young adult fantasy, moving between menacing faerie courts and other dark, richly imagined worlds. See every Holly Black book in order.
Its place in The Modern Faerie Tales
Valiant is book 2 in the The Modern Faerie Tales series. It follows Tithe. It is followed by Ironside. 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 9781534484535