A review by monicalaurette
The Iron Sword by Julie Kagawa

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Just know it was great and if you haven’t yet: read all the Iron Fey books - K thanks bye

I have friends who all share their love of the Iron Fey together, and when the Call of the Forgotten books came out, a meme was made of Ash’s head on a clownfish body yelling “HAVE YOU SEEN MY SON!?” And I just kept thinking of that while reading this book. Why does that boy have to keep disappearing on us? (so yeah spoiler Keirran is missing for part of this book)

“What are nightmares, but the dreams of different emotions?”

Now see if Ash had been more careful this would not have happened. Or if…the Lady wasn’t so her this wouldn’t have happened actually. Because just like in COTF, it’s her fault for the most part.

Also I tried looking at my notes for this book and ALL of them are spoilers, there’s not much I can mention because there will be another one, this isn’t the end. The top sentence still stands.

“I’d rather die fighting beside my friend, then have to face him as an enemy one more time.”

Julie, if you could release the last book as soon as you can that’d be WONDERFUL so I can purchase that and the FairyLoot edition the second they are out. Love you!

I gave The Iron Sword 4 stars & cannot wait for the next one to get here. I just hope some of my predictions & thoughts are not true because then I'm just hurting myself.

“Let’s make this epilogue unforgettable.”

my heart fears that our favorite exiled son Keirran is not going to survive this trilogy & I hope I’m wrong
the shadow creatures/evenfey that our team fights keep showing up as Cubone’s in my mind and I can’t stop it
MY MOTHER KENZIE IS BACK AND SHE’S PREGANANANT! Them living deep in the woods as well is so funny to me, like Ethan you’re ASKING for the fey to come and bother you in the woods.
anyone else think that Ash busting open the seal to Evenfall while not listening was like when Quill messed up the fight against Thanos in Infinity War? Just me? okay
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