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.
When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she’s known is about to change.
But she could never have guessed the truth – that she is the daughter of a mythical faery king and is a pawn in a deadly war. Now Meghan will learn just how far she’ll go to save someone she cares about, to stop a mysterious evil, no faery creature dare face; and to find love with a young prince who might rather see her dead than let her touch his icy heart.
my thoughts:
I have read many tales of faery. In fact, I am kind of tired of them so I didn’t expect to like The Iron King. And I didn’t like it. I loved it! Julie Kagawa has taken readers past the usual and straight into a world of the fantastical.
Meghan Chase has always had trouble fitting in at school and at home. It seems like people just forget about her. All except for her best friend Robbie Goodfell. On her sixteenth birthday Meghan begins to realize why. She is not human. She is in fact the daughter of a faery king and someone in the faery world has kidnapped her little brother. She must save him and to do that she needs the help of her best friend, Robbie, and his worst enemy, Ash, prince of the Winter court. The only problem is, as the journey goes on, Ash doesn’t seem as icy as he first appeared.
TEAM ASH! No offense to Puck but he just holds no appeal for me. Ash was sexy and mysterious and kind of heartbroken. I didn’t like him at first because he seemed cruel but as the book went on I got to see the other side of him and I fell in love. Puck was cute and funny but more in a brotherly kind of way. Meghan seemed to look at him like he was always going to be there but their relationship wouldn’t change. I liked them all but Ash was the best. Maybe even better than Meghan. Don’t get me wrong, Meghan was great but I would have liked her to be a little more fierce. She always relied on Ash or Puck to get her out of bad situations but maybe in the next book that will change.
The characters in the book were great but they weren’t the best. The creatures of the faery world were the absolute best. They were super creepy and scary but some of them were kind of funny. I liked the mix of creatures and no two seemed alike. I also liked how Julie Kagawa incorporated the characters from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but then brought in futuristic stuff. It wasn’t a retelling though because there was nothing about The Iron King that wasn’t completely unique.
Overall, if you can’t tell from my praise-filled review, I loved The Iron King. Faery tale lovers everywhere will enjoy this one.