Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her brother and believe they’re destined to be a knight and a bard who battle evil. She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for. Hazel lives with her brother, Ben, in the strange town of Fairfold where humans and fae exist side by side. The … faeries’ seemingly harmless magic attracts tourists, but Hazel knows how dangerous they can be, and she knows how to stop them. Or she did, once. At the center of it all, there is a glass coffin in the woods. It rests right on the ground and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointy as knives. Hazel and Ben were both in love with him as children. The boy has slept there for generations, never waking. Until one day, he does… As the world turns upside down and a hero is needed to save them all, Hazel tries to remember her years spent pretending to be a knight. But swept up in new love, shifting loyalties, and the fresh sting of betrayal, will it be enough?
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Enjoy this author. Like the addition of the changeling to the fae story
Holly Black is generally easy to read and I like her characters.
3.5
Holly Black never disappoints! Fantastic read.
I enjoyed this book. But I must say it was not my favorite. Holly Black is one of my favorite authors
This book was far more intense than I expected it to be upon reading the synopsis. From kids who have parents who let their kids run wild to the point of being dangerous, to fairies in the woods who steal babies and kill tourists.
The main characters of this story are two siblings who have involved themselves in the fairy world from very young …