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 Lost Prince |
| author | Julie Kagawa |
| ISBN-10 | 1-848-45154-7 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-848-45154-4 |
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| date | 2019-Sep-08 |
Ethan Chase, the little brother of Meghan, who has become the Iron Queen, is now much older than in the adventures of Meghan. He still has the gift (or curse?) of being able to see the fey, which has influenced much of his life. Meghan has not visited her family for many years and Ethan feels somewhat betrayed by her. Even though he does have a way to get into touch with his Queen sister if there should be an emergency, Ethan is determined to master his life and problems by himself. He has done so for many years. But when a new kind of fey start to appear, a kind nobody has ever seen before, not even the common fey themselves, things start to become more difficult. Ethan finally has no other way than to do what he intended never to do. And he finds out some things which he was not supposed to discover.
This is the fifth book in the Iron Fey Saga. As the previous ones, it is full of magic, playing in much the same places, building on the previous books in this series. If you haven't read books 1-4 of this saga, many things in this book will not make much sense. So if you haven't read the previous books, go and read them first.
Yet, this book is also different from the former ones. Not only is it written from the view of Ethan and playing several years after the last story, but it also somewhat feels like a new series. The heroes of books 1-4 also play a role in this fifth one, but only an outsider role. They are no longer the main figures, no longer the heroes.
Personally I think what Julie Kagawa does here is a fragile endeavour. She takes a very good series, replaces the main figures with new ones and basically builds a new series. But you still need to know the old series to understand the new one. This could go both ways. It might work out and keep the fans reading, possibly bring new readers to the "old" series because they want to understand this new one. On the other hand, readers of books 1-4 which have attached to Meghan, Ash, Puck and Grimalkin, might not like Ethan, Keirran, Kenzie and Annwyl as much. For me this book was still worth reading and fun, but slightly less so than the previous ones.
Oh, and by the way, if you haven't read "Iron's Prophecy" yet, the short story going between "The Iron Knight" and "The Lost Prince", then don't read it. "Iron's Prophecy" is no required reading for following the story, but it does have some information which spoils the fun of reading "The Lost Prince".
