Paperback, UK, 378 pages
Published March 31st 2011 by Bantam (first published February 22nd 2011)
ISBN
0553826107 (ISBN13: 9780553826104)
edition language
English
original title
Iron Crowned
series
characters
setting
Shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham is the best at banishing entities trespassing in the mortal realm. But as the Thorn Land’s queen, she’s fast running out of ways to end the brutal war devastating her kingdom. Her only hope: the Iron Crown, a legendary object even the most powerful gentry fear…
Who Eugenie can trust is the hardest part. Fairy king Dorian has his own agenda for aiding her search. And Kiyo, her shape-shifter ex-boyfriend, has every reason to betray her along the way. To control the Crown’s ever-consuming powers, Eugenie will have to confront an unimaginable temptation--one that will put her soul and the fate of two worlds in mortal peril…
Who Eugenie can trust is the hardest part. Fairy king Dorian has his own agenda for aiding her search. And Kiyo, her shape-shifter ex-boyfriend, has every reason to betray her along the way. To control the Crown’s ever-consuming powers, Eugenie will have to confront an unimaginable temptation--one that will put her soul and the fate of two worlds in mortal peril…
My Review
Firstly, please please PLEASE tell me that they are not leaving the series like that, because that would be seriously unfair and would leave everyone on this cliffhanger wondering what is going to happen. Because that ending was not small, no way. That ending was HUGE! it had potential in it to draw the readers 100% making them never want to put the books down. In my opinion this one was so much better than book two, it just seemed to have a lot more going for it and it didnt seem to be focused so much on the sexual scenes but the consequences of the world and the actions that had occured in the previous book. The characters in this book just really seemed to have more life and existance here which meant I became somewhat more engaged with it and was able to really settle into it. I loved the fact that Jasmine, although not as important in this book, seemed to have had a personality swap because that just meant that you got to look at everything from a whole new angle which of course made you wonder, is she just vulnerable and afraid of life, does she feel alone in the world and just wants to belong to someone to something. Perhaps all she wants is to feel special to someone and that is a feeling that I myself can relate to.
Kiyo, though I still love him and find him attractive in the book did have my suspicions raging throughout it all. After all I understand the whole you can't leave your daughter just because the mother is your ex, but the fact that he seems to be plotting and siding with her rather than the girl that he apparently loves to death, well does that not seem somewhat odd and out of tune? It just makes you wonder about what is truly happening between them. are they plotting something against Eugenie that will harm her and damage her?
The whole adventure in this book though was well plotted out. At first you do wonder if the quest to retreive the iron crown was somewhat too easy but at the same time it had the right amount of detail in it to keep the reader entertained and intrigued. The novel just had so much more potential to it than the others and Iswear if Richelle mead does not write another book to let us know what happens next I will personally go find her and demand she writes it ^_^
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