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Book: The Iron Raven

Author: Julie Kagawa

Book Series: The Iron Fey: Evenfall Book 1, The Iron Fey book 8

Rating: 3/5

Recommended For...: ya, fantasy, fae

Publication Date: February 9, 2021

Publisher: Inkyard Press

Pages: 336

Recommended Age: 16+ (Violence, Gore, Slight romance)

Synopsis: You may have heard of me...

Robin Goodfellow. Puck. Prankster, joker, raven, fool… King Oberon’s right-hand jester from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The legends are many, but the truth will now be known as never before, as Puck finally tells his own story and faces a threat to the lands of Faery and the human world unlike any before.

With the Iron Queen Meghan Chase and her prince consort, Puck’s longtime rival Ash, and allies old and new by his side, Puck begins a fantastical and dangerous adventure not to be missed or forgotten.

Review: For the most part the book was pretty good. I felt like the characters were well developed and I really like the world building. I also like the plot, but that was only after I was almost done with the book.

The book to take a bit for me to get into and then it took most of the novel to get to the point of the book. I know that a lot of first books in a series have that problem where they spend the majority of the book world building and getting the reader interested in the series, but I felt like at around 70% of the book to get to the point of it was a little too much.

Verdict: It was a good start.