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Fantasy.
Young Adult Fiction.
Young Adult Literature.
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Return to the opulent world of Elfhame, filled with intrigue, betrayal, and dangerous desires, with this first book of a captivating new duology from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black. A runaway queen. A reluctant prince. And a quest that may destroy them both.
Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. There, she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge.
Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over her mother, fled to the human world. There, she lives feral in the woods. Lonely, and still haunted by the merciless torments she endured in the Court of Teeth, she bides her time by releasing mortals from foolish bargains. She believes herself forgotten until the storm hag, Bogdana chases her through the night streets. Suren is saved by none other than Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame, to whom she was once promised in marriage and who she has resented for years.
Now seventeen, Oak is charming, beautiful, and manipulative. He's on a mission that will lead him into the north, and he wants Suren's help. But if she agrees, it will mean guarding her heart against the boy she once knew and a prince she cannot trust, as well as confronting all the horrors she thought she left behind.
I think I got overly hyped for this and my expectation wasn't quite met. I enjoyed it for what it is about Oak and Wren but it feels lacking. However the ending of course left me interested enough in wanting to read the next installment but not in a hurry. ( )
Amo a esta autora, tiene libros muy buenos y su forma de escribir es muy ligera, haciendo que la novela sea amena. La trama sigue a la saga del Principe Cruel, con los mismos personajes pero con años de diferencia. Amo el desarrollo de personajes y la construcción del mundo. Como siempre Holly Black escribiendo obras maestras. ( )
It’s been a while since I visited Elfhame and it’s complicated fey politics, but what a way to end out the reading year / start the new one! Holly Black doesn’t waste any time with this novel, and throws us into the story in full media res - expecting us to remember the events that got Jude and Cardan the the High Crowns of Elfhame, and filling in the blanks as we go with what happened to the princeling-in-waiting (Oak), all while trying to figure out where our new protagonist fits in. We are introduced to Suren (Wren), an outcast from the Court of Teeth, midst exile as she is hunted by the Storm Hag and picked up as a prisoner/bait/potential ally by Oak and company as they search for a way to defeat the rebellious fey Lady Nore, Wren’s mother. The whole story is immediately complex, which seems to be an increasing mode of Black’s the further she gets into exploring Elfhame with us, and reading this story felt like the action was taking place at such a speed that it was a challenge to keep up. The lore is intricate, and I love the detailed double twists that were slowly revealed by the final pages, but would it have killed her to slow it down just a touch to give us a little more time with the narrative?! The politics are decent at a fast clip, as things move fast in the fey world, but the unfolding of the romance themes felt a little choppy (the cast are young, but it doesn’t feel like typical teenage lust is actually a driver) and the physically slow journey that Oak and Wren take from the human world to the Ice Needle Citadel clashed somewhat with the quickness of the text’s tone. After the group make it inside the Citadel (Wren’s traumatic childhood home, so fun themes there), the pace picked up to become even more frenetic to the point where I feel like I’m definitely going to have to re-read it for the details before picking up book 2. Everyone betrays everyone else, but they’re all doing it for the right reasons, and it kind of all works out to a point where we can see a happy ending coming at some point in the near future, but damn was it all over the place to get there! Wren’s final moments are bloody and magical, with a revelation that isn’t entirely unexpected if you were paying attention going along, but inevitably left us on a cliffhanger that annoyed me immensely. What’s the point of her being animated by the heart of a betrayed daughter, besides power, because there must be one in Black’s story; are the two fey court heirs going to end up together; or is Holly Black in over her head with this evermore political story style? Here’s hoping that she has a plan for the story to all wrap up neatly (she must, since the second book is due out later this year) and that she takes the pace down a notch or two - no need to rush it, I’ll happily read an extra 100 pages if it means getting more quality lore, character development, and intrigue! ( )
Fantasy.
Young Adult Fiction.
Young Adult Literature.
HTML:
Return to the opulent world of Elfhame, filled with intrigue, betrayal, and dangerous desires, with this first book of a captivating new duology from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black. A runaway queen. A reluctant prince. And a quest that may destroy them both.
Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. There, she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge.
Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over her mother, fled to the human world. There, she lives feral in the woods. Lonely, and still haunted by the merciless torments she endured in the Court of Teeth, she bides her time by releasing mortals from foolish bargains. She believes herself forgotten until the storm hag, Bogdana chases her through the night streets. Suren is saved by none other than Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame, to whom she was once promised in marriage and who she has resented for years.
Now seventeen, Oak is charming, beautiful, and manipulative. He's on a mission that will lead him into the north, and he wants Suren's help. But if she agrees, it will mean guarding her heart against the boy she once knew and a prince she cannot trust, as well as confronting all the horrors she thought she left behind.
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