Valiant

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…