Instead, she’s dangerously close to being deemed unworthy and banished. She’s a sarcastic badass who acts arrogantly aloof, but secretly has a heart of gold, and I love how she’s a twist on the Bad Boy trope, only BETTER!Īrlo is a more typical YA protagonist with one foot in both the human and magical societies, feeling like an outcast who doesn’t truly belong anywhere and desperate to prove she’s good enough to join the fae society. Normally I hope in vain that an author will have just ONE character with LGBT+ rep and my cup overrunneth with joy at the f/f and m/m ships we’re treated to here!Īlecto is the exiled Fury who takes on the name Nausicaä as she sets about causing as much mischief and chaos as possible to distract herself from her grief and depression after the loss of her sister.
My favorite part of this book is that all four main characters are queer. That choice gives the book a unique feel as most stories about fae portray them in a separate world altogether, but keeping mundane mortals in the mix adds higher stakes, more complicated politics and a bunch of fun pop culture references. In this ambitious debut by Ashley Shuttleworth, A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR injects magic into modern day Toronto with the existence of secret magical communities partitioned away from regular humans, but still nestled alongside them. If that’s not bad enough, there’s a war brewing between the Mortal and Immortal Realms, and one of these teens is destined to tip the scales. If they fail, they risk the destruction of the faerie and human worlds alike. This arrangement has long kept peace in the Courts-until a series of gruesome and ritualistic murders rocks the city of Toronto and threatens to expose faeries to the human world.įour queer teens, each who hold a key piece of the truth behind these murders, must form a tenuous alliance in their effort to track down the mysterious killer behind these crimes. The prince’s brooding guardian, burdened with a terrible secret.įor centuries, the Eight Courts of Folk have lived among us, concealed by magic and bound by law to do no harm to humans. The “ironborn” half-fae outcast of her royal fae family.Ī tempestuous Fury, exiled to earth from the Immortal Realm and hellbent on revenge.Ī dutiful fae prince, determined to earn his place on the throne. PUBLICATION DETAILS: by Hodder & Stoughton on February 25t h, 2021
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