My Rating: 3.5 hearts
Thoughts
on the Novel: Having read Julie Kagawa’s Blood of Eden series, I recently
decided that it was time to give her other series a try. Over the past couple
of years, I’d seen great reviews about The Iron Fey series – and I finally
wanted to see what all the fuss was about. While I didn’t find the first book,
The Iron King, to be amazing; I did think it was a solid read.
A huge reason why I enjoyed The Iron
King was because of the worldbuilding. I really liked the idea of the faerie realm’s
existence being dependent upon human imagination, and seeing the rise of the iron
fey and the deterioration of the faerie realm as a result of humans dreaming
about science and technology instead.
There was just something lacking
with the characters, however. For example, although I found Meghan to be very
determined in her quest to get her brother back, I still felt a bit
disconnected from her for some reason.
I also didn’t care much about the
romance because Ash was cold and kind of a jerk. As well, it seemed that he fell
for Meghan because she reminded him of his dead girlfriend, which I find a bit
creepy. But, I’m not on Team Puck either because he came off as friend material
to me.
The Iron King was released by
Harlequin Teen in February 2010.
Comments
About the Cover: It’s okay; I like the foreground and the font.
I've heard lots of great things about this series too. In fact I picked it up several time from the library but always returned it unread. I don't know why, maybe I wasn't in the mood? I did hear that book 1 is the weakest but it does pick up. I'm curious to see what you think!
ReplyDeleteIt took me a little while to settle into this book when I first read it as well Z, but the series just got better for me as it went. I felt this was the weakest of the 4 (though still enjoyable), so I hope you'll give book 2 a try, I'd love to know what you think!
ReplyDeleteThis was my first Kagawa read so I quickly fell in love with it but when I think of myself rereading it I think I would recognize the same issues you did. I hope you enjoy the rest of the books!
ReplyDeleteYay finally you read this! Lol. Hey, 3.5 is good. Are you going to read book 2? I hope you like it more, Z. :D
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