Throughout the novel, Arlo struggles with her self-worth. She isn’t your typical YA fantasy heroine, and that makes her more relatable and a better character. Until she finds herself in the middle of a mystery regarding ironborn murders. Each chapter builds the protagonists, making it so easy to fall in love with them.Īrlo, an ironborn from the UnSeelie Spring Court, is an eighteen-year-old trying to figure out the next chapter of her life. To have four main characters with their own POVs can be risky, but Ashley Shuttleworth pulls it off flawlessly. They want to find out who is behind the ironborn murders. They have their own backgrounds and personalities, but they all share one thing in common.
There are four main characters-Arlo, Nausicaä, Vehan, and Aurelian-and they are all so different. And my expectations were relatively high. Where should I even begin? It is rare for a series to have a strong first book, but A Dark and Hollow Star exceeded every expectation I had. Magic had its rules, and woe betide anyone who tried to sidestep them. If that’s not bad enough, there’s a war brewing between the Mortal and Immortal Realms, and one of these teens is destined to tip the scales. If they fail, they risk the destruction of the faerie and human worlds alike. This arrangement has long kept peace in the Courts-until a series of gruesome and ritualistic murders rocks the city of Toronto and threatens to expose faeries to the human world.įour queer teens, each who hold a key piece of the truth behind these murders, must form a tenuous alliance in their effort to track down the mysterious killer behind these crimes. The prince’s brooding guardian, burdened with a terrible secret.įor centuries, the Eight Courts of Folk have lived among us, concealed by magic and bound by law to do no harm to humans. Synopsis The “ironborn” half-fae outcast of her royal fae family.Ī tempestuous Fury, exiled to earth from the Immortal Realm and hellbent on revenge.Ī dutiful fae prince, determined to earn his place on the throne. Genre: fantasy, romance, urban fantasy, young adultĬontent Warning: provided at the beginning of the book! A Dark and Hollow Star by Ashley Shuttleworth: Fast Facts
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