The Iron King: The Iron Fey, Book 1

The Iron King: The Iron Fey, Book 1 by Julie Kagawa

The Iron King

Winter's Passage

This audiobook includes Iron King and the Novella Winter's Passage. The quality and originality of this book is a step above the typically female-driven fantasy. Megan Chase thinks she is just an ordinary girl who has had a tough time. Her father mysteriously disappeared one day when she was with him in the park. He was never found. Her mother remarried and she has a new brother. Together they live in the rural area outside a Louisiana City. She has a crush on a football player at school but things go really wrong when she tries to meet him for tutoring. He gets revenge by getting a picture with her and then photoshopping a nude body on her. She feels so embarrassed and goes to the nurse's office and then things get even weirder. She discovers that her younger brother has been swapped out for a changeling. Her friend is actually Puck from Midsummer's Night Dream. She then goes on a quest to get her real brother back. There she encounters a talking cat among others and discovers she is the daughter of the fairy king Oberon. She does eventually get her brother back and returns back home, discovering she has been gone for 3 months. (And that the cheerleader that got "pig-nosed" is now willing to be her friend.) This one ties into the real world as well as a Shakespearean universe as well as exploring things a little different from the standard tropes. The novella was about a return to Winter Court and was not as good as the main novel.