Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale
core novel 2007 The Folk of the Air / The Modern Faerie Tales
Record
| First published | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.98 (50,643 ratings, collected 2026-08-21) |
| Page count | 323 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781534484542 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale, published by Holly Black in 2007, concludes the Modern Faerie Tales trilogy and returns to Kaye, the pixie changeling introduced in Tithe. Kaye has learned she was left in a human household as an infant in place of the real child who was taken, and her feelings for Roiben, now the brooding Lord of the Unseelie Court's Night Court, have only grown more complicated. When she rashly declares her love for him in front of his court, Roiben, bound by faerie custom, sets her an apparently impossible task in return: to find a faerie who is able to tell a lie. As Kaye pursues this near-paradoxical quest, tension builds toward a forced duel between Roiben and a champion of the rival Seelie Court, with the balance of power between the courts, and the two lovers' own fate, hanging on the outcome.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Folk of the Air / The Modern Faerie Tales
- Series: The Modern Faerie Tales core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Holly Black
Notes
- From the series record (The Modern Faerie Tales): A complete trilogy of contemporary faerie novels set in and around New York City, sharing a fictional faerie court (the Unseelie Court/New York Seelie enclave) distinct from Elfhame in Holly Black's later Folk of the Air books.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Modern Faerie Tales: position 3 of 3: previous Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie (2005)
Sources
- Holly Black - Wikipedia
- Wikipedia: Tithe (novel)
- Wikipedia: Valiant (novel)
- Wikipedia: Ironside (Black novel)
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