Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | The Iron Queen |
| author | Julie Kagawa |
| ISBN-10 | 0-373-21018-3 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-373-21018-3 |
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| date | 2019-May-19 |
It's a year now, since Meghan Chase has vanished from home and a lot has happened. Meanwhile she's banished from the Nevernever, as is Ash. But lo and behold, that does not mean she's safe from the fearies. Quite to the contrast, the new, false, Iron King is after her. Has it not been enough to kill Machina, the former Iron King? As long as the false Iron King is at loose, Meghan will not be able to rest. So... But things become more complicated than imagined. On the other hand, Meghan becomes more self-confident and trusting her own powers.
If this soulds like a riddle, they you probably have not read the previous two books in The Iron Fey series and should do so before you open this one. Otherwise many things will be hard to understand because you'll lack the context of what happened before.
Also this third book is well written and will keep you entertained. It is also interesting how Julie Kagawa uses the evolution of the Iron Kingdom to show us, between the lines, how our own world evolved over time: (the old Iron King, Ferrum) industrialization by mechanical machines, driven by pistons; (the new Iron King Machina) electrification of machines replaced the older steam-based machines, but still mechanical; (the fake Iron King) computers make a lot of the electric machines obsolete. And with each of these changes we lost some amount of the old, fully natural ways (Summer Court). It will be interesting to see, whether this analogy will continue in the next book.
