“Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand?”
The Iron King by Julie Kagawa (Harlequin Teen, 2010)
(Iron Fey, Book 1)
Genre: Fantasy, Modern Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Romance
Honors: Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Young Adult Romance (2011), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fantasy, Debut Author, Goodreads Author (2010) [Honors Information found at Goodreads.com]
Review: On Meghan's 16th birthday she gets more then just an ordinary sweet sixteen surprise. She comes home to discover that her kid brother has been switched with an evil doppelganger and she must now travel to the fey world to retrieve him. With the help of her best friend, who she discovers is also a fairy, not just any fairy but the legendary Robin Goodfellow aka Puck, she travels to the fey world and discovers that her sixteenth birthday entails a lot more then she could have ever imagined. She discovers that she is the Fairy King's human daughter and many would want to hurt her in order to hurt the fairy king. Now she must run away from the fairy king's court, where she is held prisoner for her own protection, not be captured by any fairies that would like a tasty human morsel, and face the Iron King, a new kind of fairy based on technology.
Opinion: Though I thought this was a kind of your run-of-the-mill urban fairy tale, I am intrigued to read the rest of the series because the author has put out novellas between each volume of the story. I also want to mention that I found the main character so over the op annoying in the beginning, but towards the end I realized the author did that on purpose so the reader actually sees Meghan's confidence and courage evolve. The romance aspect is very generic, so I'm glad it is not too over the top in the first book.
Ideas: This is good for anyone who wants to read a paranormal romance, and likes the idea of one girl caught between two boys. Also good for teens who like urban fantasy.
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