Kaye is a sixteen year old wanderer. She's fierce and independent, and travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There in New Jersey, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms. It's a struggle that could very well mean her death.
I, myself had never been into faeries until I read this book. A friend of mine told me to pick it up so I went to the library and checked it out. I kind of laughed at myself. It was a book about faeries, but it was a book about faeries in modern day. That fact alone slightly intrigued me. I began to read it and thought how stupid, but a couple of pages later I thought to myself that this book was becoming quite interesting and I couldn’t put it down. I was surprised at how much this book was affecting me; how I had to keep reading and reading. I think what made it more enjoyable to me was the fact that it was something I knew nothing about. I knew absolutely nothing about faeries, except that they were supposed to be little and cute like Tinkerbell. The funny part about it was that these faeries were nothing like that. There were some that were life size and some of them looked incredibly nasty. The way that Holly Black writes is amazing. She doesn’t sugar coat anything or any aspect of the book. Kaye (the girl in the book) Lives a harsh life full of many problems and she doesn’t live in the nicest of places. There is not one detail that Holly Black leaves out about how rugged things are or what Kaye (as a maturing girl) goes through. Yes, the book has faeries in it, but there is so much more to the book then faeries. This book relates to teens in a way that other books don’t, and for you guys who think this book is just for girls your wrong. One thing that Holly Black does is switch up the character views. One chapter will be in one characters point of view, while the other will be in a totally different characters point of view. So it could be in a girls point of view and a guys the next. This book really is a great read. It will keep you interested guaranteed.
I, myself had never been into faeries until I read this book. A friend of mine told me to pick it up so I went to the library and checked it out. I kind of laughed at myself. It was a book about faeries, but it was a book about faeries in modern day. That fact alone slightly intrigued me. I began to read it and thought how stupid, but a couple of pages later I thought to myself that this book was becoming quite interesting and I couldn’t put it down. I was surprised at how much this book was affecting me; how I had to keep reading and reading. I think what made it more enjoyable to me was the fact that it was something I knew nothing about. I knew absolutely nothing about faeries, except that they were supposed to be little and cute like Tinkerbell. The funny part about it was that these faeries were nothing like that. There were some that were life size and some of them looked incredibly nasty. The way that Holly Black writes is amazing. She doesn’t sugar coat anything or any aspect of the book. Kaye (the girl in the book) Lives a harsh life full of many problems and she doesn’t live in the nicest of places. There is not one detail that Holly Black leaves out about how rugged things are or what Kaye (as a maturing girl) goes through. Yes, the book has faeries in it, but there is so much more to the book then faeries. This book relates to teens in a way that other books don’t, and for you guys who think this book is just for girls your wrong. One thing that Holly Black does is switch up the character views. One chapter will be in one characters point of view, while the other will be in a totally different characters point of view. So it could be in a girls point of view and a guys the next. This book really is a great read. It will keep you interested guaranteed.
