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The Iron Fey #1-3.5
The Iron Fey: Volume One
Box Set One (The Iron King, Winter's Passage, The Iron Daughter, The Iron Queen, Summer's Crossing): the first 3 full-length Iron Fey novels and 2 companion novellas.
On her sixteenth birthday, Meghan Chase's little brother is kidnapped—and Meghan learns she is the secret daughter of a faery king. To save her brother, Meghan goes with childhood friend Robbie—the notorious Robin Goodfellow, or Puck—into Faery to seek her brother in the Summer and Winter fey courts. But a new kind of fey is rising, born of iron and technology, and poisonous to all of Faery. And as Meghan's journey to save her brother brings her into the sights of Prince Ash of the Winter Court, it also begins a quest to claim her destiny, intertwined with the fate of the dreaded Iron fey.
921 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 17, 2015
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July 22, 2021Could not finish. Wanted to like, but the protagonist came across as a spoiled entitled brat and I just couldn't hang.
June 12, 2020
Just as good as the first time I read it!!
March 16, 2020
Obsessed
This is the type of writer who takes you to another realm with her writing and creates a world you’re dying to explore. I was whisked off of my feet with this series and couldn’t be more grateful that this “book” consists of the first half of the series - I couldn’t put it down! Absolutely love the characters, plot, and everything about the series. The author incorporates mythical creatures from countless myths, legends, and lores from all over the world and gives them incredible depth. Original plot and I can’t get enough. Love, love, love.
This is the type of writer who takes you to another realm with her writing and creates a world you’re dying to explore. I was whisked off of my feet with this series and couldn’t be more grateful that this “book” consists of the first half of the series - I couldn’t put it down! Absolutely love the characters, plot, and everything about the series. The author incorporates mythical creatures from countless myths, legends, and lores from all over the world and gives them incredible depth. Original plot and I can’t get enough. Love, love, love.
May 15, 2019
Definitely enjoying the story, although it moves FAST. ANd I like the Ash/Meghan relationship, although it evolved too quickly I felt..... In the first book at least. I don't feel like they really know each other, you know? Meghan's side of it is very teenagery... which is appropriate for sure, considering she's only 16. Maybe that will change as I work through them.
Overall, I liked it, but it felt a bit superficial... at least the relationships...
Overall, I liked it, but it felt a bit superficial... at least the relationships...
August 24, 2023
A teen fantasy series that is probably best left for the teenagers. I like to dip into the young-adult genre but this was a bit too young for me to enjoy. It's popular enough, just not my cup of tea. Read books 1, 1.5, 2 and part of 3 before I stopped.
May 14, 2018
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September 24, 2018
Captivating Series
This is a captivating series that I am glad is still going. I cant wait to continue and see what comes next
This is a captivating series that I am glad is still going. I cant wait to continue and see what comes next
August 16, 2019
I couldn’t put this series down 🙌🏻 The world created inside these pages is so beautifully written and the characters really came to life.
January 12, 2020
I loved this. A great blend of traditional fairy lore with a modern twist.
January 8, 2021
Why do teenager girls need to be portrayed as falling for boys that are super attractive but complete assholes? I finished the first book, but I do not need to go on.
January 10, 2016
Lots of words signifying....Nothing
Well, I gambled and bought the rest of the series. Honestly I should know better. It is a Teen romance after all, but I'm not going to invest more money to finish this rather wordy series that has been drawn out for an additional three? Four? Books. The first book I gave three stars for being rather a decent teen romance with all that entails, but this mess was not that good.
The parallels to Butcher' Dresden Files characters, and the odd inconsistencies of voice made this not a series I will recommend for our library. Also the angsty Twilight-esk (and FYI, I rated that mess no stars for the icky three hundred year old man lusting after a teen and stalking her until she marries him. How is that romantic?). This story has the same problem. Ancient beings who have lived centuries if not millennia somehow fall for a sixteen year old whiny girl? And the love triangle that's not even a triangle...
Parental note: if your daughter is into stories with a damsel in distress being fought over by two powerful magical men then this book is probably right up her ally. Meghan is not a very good role model and her choices are questionable at best. But there is nothing much other than obsession in these books and even the gore is rather light on impact. Lots of people die, but it did not have the impact that say a 5th Wave or Maze Runner has. It isn't a bad summer pool read though.
Well, I gambled and bought the rest of the series. Honestly I should know better. It is a Teen romance after all, but I'm not going to invest more money to finish this rather wordy series that has been drawn out for an additional three? Four? Books. The first book I gave three stars for being rather a decent teen romance with all that entails, but this mess was not that good.
The parallels to Butcher' Dresden Files characters, and the odd inconsistencies of voice made this not a series I will recommend for our library. Also the angsty Twilight-esk (and FYI, I rated that mess no stars for the icky three hundred year old man lusting after a teen and stalking her until she marries him. How is that romantic?). This story has the same problem. Ancient beings who have lived centuries if not millennia somehow fall for a sixteen year old whiny girl? And the love triangle that's not even a triangle...
Parental note: if your daughter is into stories with a damsel in distress being fought over by two powerful magical men then this book is probably right up her ally. Meghan is not a very good role model and her choices are questionable at best. But there is nothing much other than obsession in these books and even the gore is rather light on impact. Lots of people die, but it did not have the impact that say a 5th Wave or Maze Runner has. It isn't a bad summer pool read though.
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September 2, 2016Great concept. Occasionally annoying characters.
So I read the entire trilogy plus the novellas included. I did so not because the characters were great, but because I loved the concept. Faeries created from dreams--the logic stands that dreams of technology and industry would be able to create a different kind of faery. The world that Julie Kagawa built was also perfect: of course everything in Faery would be dangerous and carry a price. I loved her descriptions, I loved her story.
However.
Meghan and Ash and Puck annoyed me as characters. Not all the time, but frequently, I wished we had a different narrator. Meghan as a character, as just herself, was just not all that interesting. She spent a lot of the first book "shrieking" and "screaming". Child, get a grip on yourself. She also seemed to have no real character traits beyond a vague interest in technology that went woefully underdeveloped. Why would PUCK, a faery as old as time, be so enamored? I felt like the love triangle was overly forced. Frankly, Meghan in the first book at least just wasn't interesting enough. That said, she did improve. She got a lot feistier as the books progressed. By the third book, I actually liked her.
So I read the entire trilogy plus the novellas included. I did so not because the characters were great, but because I loved the concept. Faeries created from dreams--the logic stands that dreams of technology and industry would be able to create a different kind of faery. The world that Julie Kagawa built was also perfect: of course everything in Faery would be dangerous and carry a price. I loved her descriptions, I loved her story.
However.
Meghan and Ash and Puck annoyed me as characters. Not all the time, but frequently, I wished we had a different narrator. Meghan as a character, as just herself, was just not all that interesting. She spent a lot of the first book "shrieking" and "screaming". Child, get a grip on yourself. She also seemed to have no real character traits beyond a vague interest in technology that went woefully underdeveloped. Why would PUCK, a faery as old as time, be so enamored? I felt like the love triangle was overly forced. Frankly, Meghan in the first book at least just wasn't interesting enough. That said, she did improve. She got a lot feistier as the books progressed. By the third book, I actually liked her.
December 17, 2015
Okay, this has been on my reading list for a while, and now that I'm halfway through, all I can think is... Why the hell didn't I start before?! The series is AMAZING, heart wrenching, inventive, well written, exciting, dramatic, twisty, romantic, EPIC!!! I'm dying to know how it will all wrap up, since every time a happy end comes around the corner, something happens to throw a monstrous wrench in the gears. I'm looking at you Ferrum. I could go on about how all the characters are fantastic and loveable, how this will easily be one of my favourite YA fantasy series of all time, but there aren't enough words! I just hope Ash and Meghan get their ending! I know Kagawa revels in tormenting her fans (and hey, I'm not complaining– her writing is AMAZING!!!), but I need some kind of hope here!!! Oh man, I can't wait to keep going!
April 8, 2016
This is an amazing series. It may be fast paced, and has lots of action/adventure things going on but I love everything about it. The romance that brews, the story of the various courts, the tension, enemies all of it! I do not regret getting this. Onto the next set!~ I definitely recommend giving it a try.
March 5, 2021
Julie Kagawa never fails! This series is amazing! It will definitely be a series I read again and again!
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