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Holly Black's Modern Tales of Faerie (Tithe, Valiant, and Ironside) are the sort of books that I don't just lend to friends, I lend them to friends, desperately want to reread them, buy them again, and let the friend I've lent them to keep them.
No matter how hard she tries, Kaye's not quite human, and she stole someone else's life. Conversely, the brother of her best friend, Cornelius (called Corny), can't be anything other than human. After a powerful, sadistic Unseelie court faery seduces him and keeps him as a pet, Corny wants to protect himself from the allure of faeries, a feeling that extends to the rest of humanity as a kelpie bewitches his sister into drowning.
In Valiant, Valerie, Val, runs away after she finds her mother sleeping with her boyfriend, and even worse, learns that her best friend knew and didn't tell her. When she meets three street kids that work for a troll, delivering Never, a potion that protects faeries from iron and makes humans able to work magic, she's eager to leave her old life behind.
( Nearly Naked Nixies and Kelpie Quarterly )
Black never condescends from her readers of hides ugliness. She never dresses up the lives of Kaye with her neglectful mother or Val, Luis, Dave, and Lolli in the subway tunnels. These are horrible, brutal, enthralling books.
Holly Black can be found on Livejournal at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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No matter how hard she tries, Kaye's not quite human, and she stole someone else's life. Conversely, the brother of her best friend, Cornelius (called Corny), can't be anything other than human. After a powerful, sadistic Unseelie court faery seduces him and keeps him as a pet, Corny wants to protect himself from the allure of faeries, a feeling that extends to the rest of humanity as a kelpie bewitches his sister into drowning.
In Valiant, Valerie, Val, runs away after she finds her mother sleeping with her boyfriend, and even worse, learns that her best friend knew and didn't tell her. When she meets three street kids that work for a troll, delivering Never, a potion that protects faeries from iron and makes humans able to work magic, she's eager to leave her old life behind.
( Nearly Naked Nixies and Kelpie Quarterly )
Black never condescends from her readers of hides ugliness. She never dresses up the lives of Kaye with her neglectful mother or Val, Luis, Dave, and Lolli in the subway tunnels. These are horrible, brutal, enthralling books.
Holly Black can be found on Livejournal at
blackholly .
