ISBN: 0689868235
From the Publisher:
Firstly, I love love love Holly Black, and nothing she has written has been anything but golden. I fell in love with Tithe a couple of years ago, and Valiant didn't dissapoint. Her characters are always multi-facetted young women struggling to find their place between the human world (Ironside) and the Faerie Courts. This book has poor Val taking up with some Faerie drug using street kids, where she is introduced to the world of Faerie and to Ravus, the Troll she ends up serving.
Holly Black is a brilliant writer that I can't get enough of. I am waiting with baited breath for Ironside to come out. Although, after it hits shelves I'll have to wait a whole extra year for it to become available in paperback. ::sigh::
I will and do recommend this book for all readers. It is rated (on the back) as a 14+ Young Adult, but I think that when I have kids they won't be reading it until they're sixteen (unless they are mature enough to discuss the troubling topics in it).
From the Publisher:
When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system.
But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. Impulsive Lolli talks of monsters in the subway tunnels they call home and shoots up a shimmery amber-colored powder that makes the shadows around her dance. Severe Luis claims he can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. And then there's Luis's brother, timid and sensitive Dave, who makes the mistake of letting Val tag along as he makes a delivery to a woman who turns out to have goat hooves instead of feet.
When a bewildered Val allows Lolli to talk her into tracking down the hidden lair of the creature for whom Luis and Dave have been dealing, Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. He is as hideous as he is honorable. And as Val grows to know him, she finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.
Bestselling author Holly Black follows her breakout debut, Tithe, with a rich, harrowing, and compulsively readable parable of betrayal, abuse, friendship, and love.
Firstly, I love love love Holly Black, and nothing she has written has been anything but golden. I fell in love with Tithe a couple of years ago, and Valiant didn't dissapoint. Her characters are always multi-facetted young women struggling to find their place between the human world (Ironside) and the Faerie Courts. This book has poor Val taking up with some Faerie drug using street kids, where she is introduced to the world of Faerie and to Ravus, the Troll she ends up serving.
Holly Black is a brilliant writer that I can't get enough of. I am waiting with baited breath for Ironside to come out. Although, after it hits shelves I'll have to wait a whole extra year for it to become available in paperback. ::sigh::
I will and do recommend this book for all readers. It is rated (on the back) as a 14+ Young Adult, but I think that when I have kids they won't be reading it until they're sixteen (unless they are mature enough to discuss the troubling topics in it).
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