The Iron King
core novel 2010 The Iron Fey
Record
| First published | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.87 (219,517 ratings, collected 2026-08-30) |
| Page count | 363 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780373210084 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
The Iron King is the first novel in Julie Kagawa's Iron Fey series. It follows sixteen-year-old Meghan Chase, an ordinary-seeming girl who discovers on her birthday that she is secretly half-fey, the daughter of the faery king Oberon, and is drawn into the treacherous world of the Nevernever when her younger brother is stolen away and replaced by a changeling. Determined to get him back, Meghan crosses into the faery realm, encountering figures drawn from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and navigating the rival Summer and Winter Courts, whose long-standing hostilities complicate her search. Her efforts to recover her brother ultimately lead her toward the Iron Realm and its ruler, the Iron King, a new and unfamiliar power born from human technology and encroaching on the older faery courts, forcing Meghan to confront dangers neither court fully understands.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Iron Fey
- Series: The Iron Fey core; position 1 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Julie Kagawa
Notes
- From the series record (The Iron Fey): The original quartet, following Meghan Chase's discovery of her fae heritage and the war against the Iron Fey. This author has written several further sequel/spin-off trilogies in the same world (Call of the Forgotten, Evenfall) which are deliberately left unresearched this pass rather than guessed at;
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 Iron Fey: position 1 of 4: next The Iron Daughter (2010)
Sources
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