Tithe: Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.;Valiant: Seventeen-year-old Valerie's a runaway who's living in New York City with a group of squatters. She agrees to help track down the la
Valiant: a modern faerie tale
โ Scribed by Holly Black
- Publisher
- Margaret K. McElderry Books
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 239 KB
- Edition
- 1st pbk ed
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system.
But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. Impulsive Lolli talks of monsters in the subway tunnels they call home and shoots up a shimmery amber-colored powder that makes the shadows around her dance. Severe Luis claims he can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. And then there's Luis's brother, timid and sensitive Dave, who makes the mistake of letting Val tag along as he makes a delivery to a woman who turns out to have goat hooves instead of feet.
When a bewildered Val allows Lolli to talk her into tracking down the hidden lair of the creature for whom Luis and Dave have been dealing, Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. He is as hideous as he is honorable. And as Val...
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