A rich, harrowing and compulsive tale of betrayal, abuse, friendship and love. A contemporary retelling of the Beauty and the Beast story.
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A rich, harrowing and compulsive tale of betrayal, abuse, friendship and love. A contemporary retelling of the Beauty and the Beast story.
Valiant
Since I already recommended one dark faerie book, might as well recommend another! I love all of Holly Black’s urban fantasy, it’s gritty and sensual and almost always features a compelling female protagonist who doesn’t mind getting her hands bloody… er, dirty. This one is about Val, a girl who runs away to NYC after she finds out her …
Valiant is my favorite book in the series.
Val learns a shocking truth about her life and flees to the city. Trying to be in control of her life, everything goes out of control.
Val becomes a messenger/courier for a troll to pay off a debt not entirely her own, uses Never (a magic drug) to forget how powerless she is, and does a lot of foolish things to show that she is in charge of her …
I don’t know where to start, After reading Tithe, I thought the story would follow through to Valiant, but that didn’t happen. That was the first of my disappointment, there was only one character from Tithe that had even a minor of a role in this book in my opinion. I feel there wasn’t much of the fairy world in this book which was another …
This series appears to be a “stand alone series” in that they don’t appear to follow the same story line. The world is the same and there are some cross over characters, but this is not a continuation of the story started in Tithe.
In this volume, the main character is human and after discovering something that horrifies her about her own life, …