Book One - The Iron King
Published: 2010 (Harlequin Teen)
Format: eBook (Kindle)
Pages: 363
Read: 24 December 2013
Description: (Goodreads)
Meghan Chase has a secret destiny; one she could never have imagined.
Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan's life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six. She has never quite fit in at school or at home.
When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she's known is about to change.
But she could never have guessed the truth - that she is the daughter of a mythical faery king and is a pawn in a deadly war. Now Meghan will learn just how far she'll go to save someone she cares about, to stop a mysterious evil, no faery creature dare face; and to find love with a young prince who might rather see her dead than let her touch his icy heart.
Review:
The first adventure of Meghan Chase... well, I'd been recommended this book on Goodreads so I thought I'd check it out. Especially when I noticed Amazon Kindle were offering the first three books at £0.99 each. It was Christmas, and I was in desperate need of an easy-going book to read.
The first book starts of relatively normal. Meghan is a normal 16-year-old, dealing with normal problems. That is, until her little brother is snatched from their house and taken into a place called the NeverNever.
Suddenly Meghan is dumped with the knowledge that things like fairies, goblins, trolls and even dragons do exist, and she's the Summer King's daughter. Half-mortal, Half-fey, she's been protected for from this knowledge by Puck (Robin Goodfellow), aka her best friend.
But with her brother now swapped for a Changeling, and the knowledge all out there in the open, Meghan demands that her friend take her into the NeverNever to rescue her brother.
So he takes her, and so begins the adventures of Meghan Chase, daughter of the Summer King. Here in the NeverNever she meets Grimalkin, a Cait Sith who reminds me a little of the Cheshire cat in Alice and Wonderland, and Ash, prince of the Winter Court.
As an enemy of the Summer Court, Ash is the last person Meghan should fall in love with, but she does, because where would you be in a book without a little forbidden romance?
I enjoyed this book (so much so I bought the following two books), and on the whole I give it 3.5 out of 5 disappearing Cait Sith.
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Book Two - The Iron Daughter
Published: 2010 (Harlequin Teen)
Format: eBook (Kindle)
Pages: 359
Read: 30 December 2013
Description (Goodreads)
Half Summer faery princess, half human, Meghan has never fit in anywhere. Deserted by the Winter prince she thought loved her, she is prisoner to the Winter faery queen. As war looms between Summer and Winter, Meghan knows that the real danger comes from the Iron fey—ironbound faeries that only she and her absent prince have seen. But no one believes her.
Worse, Meghan's own fey powers have been cut off. She's stuck in Faery with only her wits for help. Trusting anyone would be foolish. Trusting a seeming traitor could be deadly. But even as she grows a backbone of iron, Meghan can't help but hear the whispers of longing in her all-too-human heart.
Review:
On to the second adventure of Meghan Chase...
At the end of Book One Meghan has rescued her brother, killed the Iron King, and gained the knowledge that she is the daughter of Oberon, King of the Summer Court. However, she is now stuck in a contract with Ash, son of Queen Mab of the Winter Court, and the minute she brings her brother back home, Ash arrives to collect - she has to go with him to the Winter Court.
If that wasn't bad enough, she's in love with Ash, and he her. A love that literally will tear everything apart. The minute she walks into Winter Court territory, Ash has to ignore her, to give up any measure of feelings for her, because in the Winter Court, emotion is weakness, and love between two Courts is forbidden.
Meghan is stuck trying to survive in the harsh Court, until an Iron Knight arrives and kills Sage, Ash's brother and steals the staff of the Seasons (currently the staff of Winter). Mab blames Oberon, despite Meghan trying to tell them the truth, and an all-out war between Winter and Summer begins.
Desperate to stop the war, Meghan escapes to track down the Staff, with the help of Ash and Puck, and Grimalkin of course, but also with the unlikely help of Iron Horse as well (an Iron version of a Water Horse I'm sure).
I'd say the second book was mostly as enjoyable as the first - in the sense that the writing was easy-to-read, there was just enough action and suspense to keep you hooked. The endings are generally expected however. You don't have any illusions of where the book(s) are going to go - in a roundabout way, anyway.
I'd give this 3 out of 5 Iron Horses.
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