In the previous book, The Iron Raven, we kept being told that Puck was reverting to his evil, heartless self, from before he was one of the good guys. Then there was the problem of telling and not showing. But even then so much of the book is in the form of flashbacks, dreams, and hallucinations that nothing seems to be happening in real-time. The last part of the book does pick up as they now roughly know who the villain is. They make too many stops that are ultimately useless, and too much time is wasted. Not finding him there they have to go elsewhere, and then somewhere else to get information, only to realize that they now have to go to another place and call in another favor, and then find yet another person to help them, and travel to another location, and so it goes like two hundred pages. The gang is trying to find Keirran so they go to his home, but first, they have to go somewhere else and ask for help. The two-thirds of this book was a series of unnecessary small quests. Whatever the reason, this series has lost its charm. Maybe it’s because I’m older now, maybe at this point, I’ve read way too many YA novels. And after two books, I gotta say, I’m not loving it. Then a spinoff/ continuation series came out, The Iron Fey: Call of the Forgotten. The bad guys were defeated, the heroes lived happily ever after. Once upon a time, back when I was in high school, The Iron Fey was one of my favorite series I loved the characters and the world of the Nevernever and all the adventures.
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