Ironside - Brossura

Black, Holly

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1847393446 ISBN 13: 9781847393449

Casa editrice: Pocket Books, 2009

Riassunto

Holly Black's long-awaited sequel to Tithe sees Roiben uneasy on the Unseelie throne, his tenuous hold on his subjects compounded by his relationship with a commoner -- and one raised as a human to boot. Then Kaye, drunk on faerie wine and goaded by malicious ill-wishers, makes a passionate declaration -- in public -- which makes their situation immeasurably worse. Because of it Roiben must set her a task which she must complete to show that she is worthy to be his consort. The quest he gives her, however, is an impossible one: to find him a faery who can lie. Devastated as she is by his rejection, belonging neither in Faerie nor the human world -- Ironside -- Kaye is not the only one in trouble. Corny too has acted rashly and has to face some harsh and unpleasant consequences when he is cursed so that every thing he touches decays and dies. Together they set out to seek an answer and a cure, and both find more than they bargain for. Corny finds a soulmate in the mysterious and taciturn Luis -- whom he dare not touch -- but Kaye uncovers a plot to destroy Roiben once and for all by an act of exquisite cruelty and revenge.A plot hatched not in the twisted heart of the Unseelie Court but by the Seelie Queen herself: the bright star, Silarial, to whom Roiben in turn had once declared his love. Love and hate and good and evil are only sides of the same coin. But which is which and how fine is the line that lies between them?

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Holly Black spent her early years in a decaying Victorian mansion where her mother fed her a steady diet of ghost stories and faerie tales. An avid collector of rare folklore volumes, spooky dolls, and crazy hats, she lives in West Long Branch, New Jersey, with her husband, Theo. Together with illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, she is the creator of the bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles series of children's books.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

An unwise declaration of love, a seemingly impossible task, a boy cursed so that he dare not touch the object of his desire, and an exquisite act of cruelty and revenge. These are the elements Holly Black weaves together with the deft touch of a master storyteller and her trademark blend of thwarted romance and otherworldly violence.
Belonging neither in Faerie nor in the human world - Ironside - changeling Kaye has one chance to win her lover once and for all - if only she can find it. Set in a dangerous realm where pleasure mingles with pain and nothing is as it appears, Ironside is the spellbinding sequel to the critically-acclaimed Tithe.
Part love story, part urban fantasy, part rite of passage, this is a book which, like the realm of Faerie itself, will haunt the imagination long after you have left it.
Pocket Books
FICTION
£7.99
ISBN 978-1-84739-344-9

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Pocket Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1847393446
• ISBN 13: 9781847393449
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288