Pages:
352
Publisher:
MiraInk
Release
Date: 19th
November 2015
Edition:
UK e-proof,
NetGalley review copy
Other
Titles by this Author: The
Iron King, The
Iron Daughter, The
Iron Queen, The
Iron Knight, The
Immortal Rules, The Eternity Cure, The Forever
Song, Rogue, Talon, The
Lost Prince, The
Iron Traitor
The
Iron Prince – my nephew – betrayed us all.
He
killed me.
Then
I woke up.
Waking
after a month on the brink of death, Ethan Chase is stunned to learn that the
Veil that conceals the fey from human sight was temporarily torn away. Although
humankind’s glimpse of the world of faery only lasted just a brief moment, the
human world has been cast into chaos, and the emotion and glamour produced by
fear and wonder has renewed the power of the Forgotten Queen. Now, she is at
the forefront of an uprising against the courts of Summer and Winter – a
reckoning that will have cataclysmic effects on the Nevernever.
Leading
the Lady’s Forgotten Army is Keirran himself: Ethan’s nephew and the traitor
son of the Iron Queen, Meghan Chase. To stop Keirran, Ethan must disobey his
sister once again as he and his girlfriend, Kenzie, search for answers long
forgotten.
In
the face of unprecedented evil and unfathomable power, Ethan’s enemies must
become his allies, and the world of fey will be changed forevermore.
The release of The Iron Warrior sees the end of one of
my very favourite series, and it does it with a bang.
It’s been five years since
Meghan, Ash and Puck first teamed up to bring chaos to the Nevernever and I've fallen
in love with them, Ethan, Kenzie, Kierran and the creatures of the faery world.
Reading The Iron Warrior was very
bittersweet. Meghan is truly a queen now and Ash has become everything I hoped
he would be, but it’s the newer characters like Kenzie – Ethan’s girlfriend – who
really had some development in this final instalment. I had liked Kenzie in The Lost Prince and The Iron Traitor, but she really came into her own here. Kenzie has
learnt how to operate in the Nevernever; she knows the quirks, the loopholes
and how to survive as a human in Faery. I can't help but wonder if Julie Kagawa
ever brings this world back (oh please, please, please!), it’ll be with Kenzie
in some way…
One of my favourite things about The Iron Warrior were the echoes of Ash
and Meghan in Ethan and Kenzie’s relationship, particularly the way they worked
together and a certain scene at a battleground camp, the night before the fight
of their lives – even Meghan and Ash noticed that similarity! We also saw
characters that helped Meghan, Ash and Puck throughout the original series come
back to aid Ethan and Kenzie in their quest to stop Kierran and bring him home.
It felt like a real send off to a group f beloved characters and a world that I
would love to visit, though it's highly unlikely I'd survive even 24 hours in
the Nevernever…
The
Iron Warrior is
an action-packed and thoroughly entertaining ending to the Iron Fey series and I really hope Kagawa will take us back one day;
it was certainly left open to it.
Thanks to MiraINK and NetGalley
for the review copy.
Sophie
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