This is Holly Black's third "Modern Faery's Tale," and it resumes the story of Kaye and other characters from Tithe, the first volume in the series. Can humans and faeries be friends? Can faery changlings maintain loving relationships with the people they thought were their relatives, once they've found out the truth about their natures? The pixie Kaye is determined to find out.
Together with her gay friend Corny and Luis, her guide to the Seelie Court, Kaye tries to figure out why Roiben, now king of the Unseelie Court, who she once thought loved her, has sent her on an impossible quest. Until she fulfills that quest, she is not allowed to see him. What's worse is that in the Seelie Court, she must witness negotiations between Roiben and his erstwhile queen, Silarial, a magnificently beautiful faery. Filled with self-doubt, convinced that Roiben will never again love her, Kaye tries to do the right thing by her human mother and avoid death for her or her friends at the hands of the fey who pursue her out of the Seelie Court.
The suspenseful narrative maintains the seductive, darly fantastic pull of Black's earlier books, Tithe and Valiant, similarly blending elements of gritty urban life and contemporary teen concerns with the mythic. It's a good read!
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