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| Modern Faerie Tales Book 3 |
In the realm of Faerie, the time has come for Roiben's coronation. Uneasy in the midst of the malevolent Unseelie Court, pixie Kaye is sure of only one thing -- her love for Roiben. But when Kaye, drunk on faerie wine, declares herself to Roiben, he sends her on a seemingly impossible quest. Now Kaye can't see or speak to Roiben unless she can find the one thing she knows doesn't exist: a faerie who can tell a lie.
Miserable and convinced she belongs nowhere, Kaye decides to tell her mother the truth -- that she is a changeling left in place of the human daughter stolen long ago. Her mother's shock and horror sends Kaye back to the world of Faerie to find her human counterpart and return her to Ironside. But once back in the faerie courts, Kaye finds herself a pawn in the games of Silarial, queen of the Seelie Court. Silarial wants Roiben's throne, and she will use Kaye, and any means necessary, to get it. In this game of wits and weapons, can a pixie outplay a queen?
Holly Black spins a seductive tale at once achingly real and chillingly enchanted, set in a dangerous world where pleasure mingles with pain and nothing is exactly as it appears.
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My Review: 5/5 Stars
Definitely the best of the trilogy! A lot happens in this book. The Unseelie and Seelie Courts are courting one another in war. A war Roiben desperately wants to prevent and win in order to have peace with no lives lost. Kaye gets tricked by some faeries that she must declare her love forr Roiben and ask for a quest in order to stay by her side. And to protect Kaye, Roiben gives her an impossible task to keep her away from courts. And if that wasn't enough, Kaye tells her mother the truth about her being a changeling. So yes, a lot. And from the second book, Luis makes an appearance to help Kaye and Corny as they continue to be involved in faerie problems. I really liked this story the best of the three. And I have to say I LOVED the solution to Roiben's impossible quest. Brilliant on Kaye's part for coming up with that answer. I laughed really hard on that final page when she tells Roiben how she pulled it off. And also now that I read these books, I can understand Roiben and Kaye better from the Folk of the Air trilogy, which also means I am about to do a re-read to keep up the momentum and because they were just really good!
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