MIRA Ink The Iron King, Romance, Paperback, Julie Kagawa
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Description: Meghan Chase has a secret destiny | ??one she could never have imagined Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan's life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six. She has never quite fit in at school.or at home. MIRA Ink The Iron King, Romance, Paperback, Julie Kagawa - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780778304340
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Dimensions: 126x198mm
Keywords: Fantasy Fiction,Fantasy,Teen Fantasy,Epic Fantasy,Fantasy And Legend,Talon,Red Queen,Maria V Snyder,Shadow Study,Iron Fey,Blood Of Eden,Coming Of,Fantasy,Paranormal
ISBN: 9780778304340
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Author: Rosie McCaffrey
Rating: 5
Review: Before I read The Iron King, I had never read anything about faeries before, so I knew little about the mythology etc. If you're like me, you might find some of the concepts and terminology a little daunting at first, but persevere, because it's worth it! At first when I picked the book up I think I vastly underestimated its potential to really have any effect on me. I thought it would be a nice little story about supernatural forces and a doomed love that eventually works out fine in the end - but I was so wrong. The old proverb 'don't judge a book by its cover' really comes into play here. The romance element doesn't actually dominate the story as much as you might be led to believe, which for me was refreshing, because so many of today's YA fiction books concentrate so much on that element to the point where the plot becomes completely secondary, when it is usually something plot-driven that is keeping the couple apart. Throughout the book the focus was always the same for Meghan - to save her brother Ethan and take him home - and romance with the Winter Prince was just a moment of serendipity. At first when I started reading it I thought it was pretty trippy, and it is, but that's part of the charm. The whole way through I kept thinking this is like Alice & Wonderland meets the Lord of the Rings meets Labyrinth and a whole bunch of other things, and you will find comparisons, but this never detracts from the story as a whole. In fact it even adds to it because you can see that Kagawa has draped mythology from different stories and fairytales that appear in popular culture around her own, which makes The Iron King feel even more well-rounded and complete. There's even a bit of Shakespeare thrown in! I thought all the characters were vividly written and each was indisposable in that they all brought out a different facet of the story. I think the character of Meghan Chase, the central heroine and narrator, was less lucid than her companions, but perhaps that was due to her age and the whole thing being about her not really fitting in anywhere and not really knowing who she was. That fact could have been a little more concrete with reminders put in a long the way, but it didn't effect my enjoyment of the book and it is only part one of a trilogy, so fingers crossed! Another commendable quality of The Iron King, is that Kagawa has really tapped into the way a teenager expresses him or herself, which I think is a key element a lot of YA books lack. The casual curse words, the back-and-forth banter between competing males, the disregard of adults' opinions and motivations, and even the technology all ring true of modern day teenage life. Kagawa also uses her fictional faery land, the Nevernever, to parallel the economical struggles we face today and subtly points the blame on ourselves, and also the resolution that we are the only ones who can fix it. The book doesn't end on a particularly promising note, which again separates it from your typical YA fiction. It hints at something worse to come and suggests that the journey, which was so harrowing, has really only just begun. I really couldn't recommend this book enough. It has everything; action, romance, adventure, humour and heartache all blended beautifully into the beginning of a very promising fairytale. I defy you not to love it.
Author: katrina ingram
Rating: 2
Review: Some spoilers in this review I had heard this book was aimed at the lower end of YA, I didn’t mind as I enjoy middle grade books as much as adult books. The book started out in this vein with the MC calling her friend stupid or an idiot as you would expect when aiming at a younger audience, but then puck tells her she needs to be careful or the Satyrs will make her dance until her feet bleed then rape her. I was shocked, it didn’t fit with the tone of the book at all. Later she encounters some satyrs who pursue her and it’s clear what their intentions are. She also calls someone a b****rd, a far cry from calling people an idiot at the start. It happened the other way round too, sometimes the book read as if it was aimed at an older YA audience but then the dialogue sounded very young. I noticed these shifts in the tone throughout and it caused me to disconnect from the story. While I liked some of the side characters the MC was very annoying. She was told early on not to make deals with the fae as oaths are binding yet she continued bargaining, usually offering them anything they wanted in return for their help. Even though nothing bad came from these deals it was frustrating that she was ploughing through the nevernever striking up deals constantly that she had been warned against doing. I’m not sure if it was a combination of these 2 annoyances or just the story itself but I was bored! I kept skim reading or realising that I had read a few pages and not taken anything in. I just wasn’t invested in the characters and didn’t care what happened next. For the last 30% of the book I was just slogging through to finish as I had already invested so much time I wanted to see it through to the end. I won’t be reading anymore in this series
