She fights, plots, even murders enemies, but she must also navigate her relationship with her complex family (human, Faerie, and mixed). Fierce and observant Jude is utterly unaware of the currents that swirl around her. Black’s latest looks at nature and nurture and spins a tale of court intrigue, bloodshed, and a truly messed-up relationship that might be the saving of Jude and the titular prince, who, like Jude, has been shaped by the cruelties of others. Brought up among the Gentry, Jude has never felt at ease, but after a decade, Faerie has become her home despite the constant peril. Human Jude (whose brown hair curls and whose skin color is never described) both hates and loves Madoc, whose murderous nature is true to his Faerie self and who in his way loves her.

Jude-broken, rebuilt, fueled by anger and a sense of powerlessness-has never recovered from watching her adoptive Faerie father murder her parents. Nonstop action, horrific magic, and teen love.īlack is back with another dark tale of Faerie, this one set in Faerie and launching a new trilogy.

Characters profess to be Christians, atheists, and Celts. Students and faculty are South Asian and French. While the cast is all Irish, it is ethnically, spiritually, and sexually diverse.

The action is blood-soaked and brutal, but the angst-filled love story of teens torn apart by war is life-affirming. Anto must face his own demons as he struggles to master his Sídhe-given arm. Nessa, disabled by polio but blessed by her fireproof skin, is forced to fight again. But the brutal fairies have found a way to travel to Ireland and finally retake it for themselves. But for the citizens, the worst is the certainty that at some point during adolescence, all will be called to try and survive for a day in the land of the Sídhe. Cut off from the rest of the world, Ireland has been struggling with a crumbling infrastructure and limited provisions. After surviving the Call to the Grey Land and the attempted fairy invasion ( The Call, 2016), Anto and Nessa hope to escape the limelight and live a quiet life together in the countryside, but the Irish government has other ideas.įourteen-year-old Anto is drafted into a military unit known only as the infestation squad, while Nessa is labeled a traitor to the nation and imprisoned.

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