Author Holly Black returns to the world of Faerie with this extremely anticipated spinoff from her bestselling Folk of the Air trilogy. The Stolen Heir follows Wren, the exiled queen of the Court of Teeth, and Prince Oak, the inheritor to Elfhame and Wren’s former betrothed.
Wren grew up a changeling, a faerie left within the care of a mortal household when she was only a toddler. She spent a blissful childhood amongst people till her vicious faerie dad and mom, Lord Jarel and Lady Nore, stole her away to the Ice Needle Citadel within the Court of Teeth. There, she endured years of humiliation and abuse earlier than lastly making her escape. She’s lived in isolation within the woods ever since, hiding from people and faeries alike.
A charismatic and beguiling younger man, Oak has spent a lot of his adolescence within the cutthroat Faerie courtroom studying to fight the various assassination makes an attempt on his life. While his sister, Jude, and her husband (the central couple of Black’s earlier trilogy) rule Elfhame, Oak has been attempting to place a cease to Lady Nore’s rising energy and the risk it poses. He has hatched a harmful plan that entails infiltrating the Court of Teeth. To carry it out efficiently, nevertheless, he wants Wren’s insider information of the citadel.
Wren crosses paths with Oak when he rescues her from a kidnapping try, then conscripts her into becoming a member of his plans. The Court of Teeth—her former jail—is the final place Wren needs to return to, but when she’s ever going to cease residing on the run, she should confront her previous and embrace her energy, regardless of how monstrous it makes her really feel.
Black facilities The Stolen Heir, the primary ebook in a deliberate duology, on the scars of childhood trauma. Wren is the rightful claimant to a throne she is just too frightened to command. Although she longs to return to her human household, her pale blue pores and skin and sharply pointed enamel are fixed reminders that she will be able to by no means rejoin the mortal world. Oak’s unworldly attract—his golden curls and amber, foxlike eyes—makes her doubt the sincerity of his affection. As in all of Black’s books in regards to the world of Faerie, magnificence and cruelty exist facet by facet, and neither is ever utterly what it appears.
Readers awaiting cameos from Jude and Cardan could really feel barely dissatisfied that Black retains them within the background right here. The Stolen Heir belongs wholly to Wren and Oak, however their story is simply as satisfying as readers might hope for, deliciously wrought with distrust and longing. Meanwhile, newcomers to Black’s Faerie books will probably be enticed to gobble up all the things she has ever penned.
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