A review by arielzeit
The Iron King by Julie Kagawa

3.0

Eh. A cross between Holly Black's TITHE and Melissa Marr's WICKED LOVELY. A tiny bit of TWILIGHT thrown in because the sexy immortal is physically cold. (I will never understand the appeal of a chilly lover; it seems almost like necrophilia to me!). It wasn't all bad. I enjoyed her tricky plotting with riddles and cleverly worded contracts but basically it's the kind of book where everyone addresses the heroine as "human" or "princess" or they intone first and last name. (Luckily it's Meghan Chase. Just imagine if she were Heather Finkelstein!) But most damning of all, the parts about the land of the fairies were terribly overwritten. Fairyland should be the best part of a book about fairies, urban or otherwise. That's a rule.