To summarize my review I can say I had a lot of fun reading this story and, even if I didn’t read the Iron Fey (read the first book after I read this one) I thoroughly enjoyed it and had no issue with the plot or the characters.
Puck/Robin Goodfellow is one of my favorite tricksters and Midnight Summer Night and Puck of the Hill are amongst my favorite stories.
I fell in love with Julie Kagawa’s Puck since the first pages as he reflects my own image and I love the way the character was developed: complex, fighting with his dark side but also full of humor.
This story is fast paced, highly entertaining and gripping. It’s a sort of introduction to the rest of the series and the main actors. There is a quest in this story but you know that there’s a lot more to come even if there is no cliffhanger in this book.
I found the world of Iron Fey fascinating: the author did an excellent job in building and adding layers and there are plenty of explanations and details that help you to understand how thing works and the lore of the feys.
The characters are well developed and interesting. I talked about Puck but I would add Nyx to the list of favorite characters. Ms Kagawa’s character development is excellent and the characters are fleshed out. I appreciated how the relationship between the characters were explained and the story of how they met.
As I said I read the first of the Iron Fey series after this one and I loved how the style of writing evolved and how this book is more adult oriented that the previous in this series.
I think this is an excellent epic fantasy that can appeal to people of different ages.
I can’t’ wait to read the next stories and catch up with these characters.
Strongly recommended.
Many thanks to Inkyard Press and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.