• Reading level: Young Adult
• Julie Kagawa’s Website
• List Price: $9.99 US/$11.99 CDN
• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin; Original edition (February 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373210086
• ISBN-13: 978-0373210084

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Meghan Chase has a secret destiny—one she could never have imagined…

Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan’s life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six. She has never quite fit in at school…or at home.

When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she’s known is about to change.

But she could never have guessed the truth—that she is the daughter of a mythical faery king and is a pawn in a deadly war. Now Meghan will learn just how far she’ll go to save someone she cares about, to stop a mysterious evil no faery creature dare face…and to find love with a young prince who might rather see her dead than let her touch his icy heart.

The Iron Kingfollows the life of “almost” sixteen year old Meghan, who is all excited about her mother taking her in for her drivers license. Meghan hasn’t had the best life, her father disappeared when she was a little girl & her step-father practically ignores her or forget she exists for the most part. She has only one friend, the prankster Robbie. The rest of the school pretends she doesn’t exist, until the day of her 16th birthday when everything gets shot to hell due to a computer error at the expense of Meghan’s crush. When she starts seeing creature’s she never imagined existed, she thinks she’s loosing her mind until Robbie confesses….he’s not Robbie but Robin Goodfellow aka Puck & Meghan is one of the few “humans” who can see the fae. On top of that, Meghan’s baby brother has been kidnapped & replaced by an ankle biting fae. Meghan must decide whether she should find her baby brother or forget all of this exists.

Without a doubt, The Iron King is my favorite YA book of 2010!

Not only would it make great recommended reading for high school students after reading Midsummer Nights Dream but it was so well written it would do just as well for us adults. Honestly, after seeing all the reviews in February I had put reading The Iron King on the back burner. In one way I’m glad I did, since my wait for the 2nd book in the series isn’t as intense but I regret missing out on such a wonderfully executed book!

The Iron King is a gripping edge of your seat journey into a Fairy Tale that Shakespeare himself would have loved to read. From start to finish you can see in your minds-eye exactly what the world Julie Kagawa has created looks like, which is rare in a YA at least IMO. It also shows the spirit of a great friendship & the dawning of teenage love, which was refreshing in it’s innocence.

If you haven’t read The Iron King, PLEASE go out & get a copy for yourself & any teenagers you love, it’s worth it.