But when she’s rescued from the witch by none other than Elfhame’s heir, Prince Oak, the pair will set off on a journey that will force Wren to face all the horrors-both physical and mental-she thought she’d left behind for good.
Lonely and haunted, she spends most of her time releasing humans from ill-considered bargains with faeries and trying to avoid the storm hag Bogdana who serves her mother’s court. The story primarily follows Suren, the young changeling queen from the Court of Teeth whom we met briefly in The Queen of Nothing and whose abusive relationship with her parents has led her to abandon Faerie for the moral world, where she lives feral in the woods. Now, Black takes us back to this magical realm with The Stolen Heir, a sequel that picks up the threads of several of the original trilogy’s minor characters eight years after the original books-and takes them (and us) into some darker, more disturbing places. Her mega-popular Folk of the Air trilogy- The Cruel Prince, The Wicked King and The Queen of Nothing-was a New York Times bestselling series, and captivated millions of readers around the world. And with good reason-few authors writing today manage to make the lush, magical realm of the fairy folk more appealing.
He’s on a mission that will lead him into the north, and he wants Suren’s help.īut if she agrees, it will mean guarding her heart against the boy she once knew and a prince she cannot trust, as well as confronting all the horrors she thought she had left behind.If you’ve read any sort of fantasy fiction about the world of Faerie in the past decade, you’ve probably come across the work of Holly Black. Now seventeen, Oak is charming, beautiful and manipulative. Suren is saved by none other than Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame, to whom she was once promised in marriage and who she has resented for years. She believes herself forgotten until the storm hag Bogdana chases her through the night streets. Lonely, and still haunted by the merciless torments she endured in the Court of Teeth, she bides her time by releasing mortals from foolish bargains. Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over her mother, fled to the human world, where she lives feral in the woods. There she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth, has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel.
And a quest that may destroy them both.Įight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent.
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