A Fae Murder Mystery: Modern Fairy Tales

 Valiant

By Holly Black

Dead fairies are popping up everywhere. There are exiles from both the Seelie Court and the Unseelie court and at times there are dual alliances and sometimes they just shift. The Fae are everywhere. Most people do not have the sight to see them and if the fairies find out heaven help as they may kill you or just take your eye. They are very whimsical and moody. Things are even worse as the fairies are dealing and using something called Nevemore. If a human uses it then they too might have fae abilities and they will catch a mighty buzz.. Fairies are not above using human couriers. They think humans are like rats. Using humans makes teh investigation of who is doing these murders even more complicated. Like let us blame the chemist.

The story starts off in the human realm. A girl named Val seems to be trying to adjust. After being harassed on the school LaCrosse team Vlal fights back and get's kicked off the team. As she is about to go to a hcokey game with her boyfriend Tom. He is a bit late and Val get's worried. Checking in the wrong area she finds out here boyfriend is fooling around with her mother. Val runs away after the game and ends up meeting Lolli and Dave. Lolli tells Val about the fairies but Val remain unconvinced.  After hanging out in the sewers with Dave's older brother Luis, her and Lolli go exploring. They end up violating the turf of a Troll. As a punishment Val now has to deliver Nevermore to fairy clients. AS the relationship grows she learns sword fighting from th Troll and ends up trying Nevermore herself.

This plunges her into the world of the fae. Learnin to glamour and control her appearances she manipulates her humans quite easily.  Along the way she battle a wicked fairy and exposes the truth in a murder investigation. Fast and entertaining read. Be great if they made it into a movie.

Revenge of the Maji

Children of Virtue and Vengeance

By Tomi Adeyemi 

 The children are virtue and vengeance. This is book 2 in the legacy of Arsha series. Arisha is much like a mythical version of Nigeria the people there practice in ancient religion and they have magic that’s an important backdrop. The people who had magic were called the Magine, and during a brutal war magic was suppressing the match I lost all their powers from that point on the magi were persecuted hunted, and killed Persecuted for once having magic. The adventure continues with Zane, Amari Enon and Zelly. It is important to note that Zelly is a Magine. Her brother Ian has a little bit of magic. Amari is a princess and her brother Eno is a prince set to be King and queen they side with Zelly and Eno in the last book we learned that Zelly did a ritual that liberated magic and gave the magic magic back so now that the match I have their magic back, thus begins a civil war in Arisha now the manager are not the only ones with magical powers as it turns out there’s another group of magic wheelers called the Titans with some of the royalty descent from and when the magi Attack the castle and try to take back the kingdom for more just rule the queen who survived the dead being killed has unbelievable power and defeats an army of Magine and what continues as a civil war between the magi and the Titans with both sides devastating each other along this way or conflicts Zane and Zelly have an on and off relationship they love each other. They hate each other. Ian wants to make it more just kingdom, but Zelly doubt him is also a thing to recollect all the old scrolls of Mexican learn the incantations to battle. These magical Titans are too powerful to be beaten, and the royalty has a new weapon called Majesty, which is a stone that can kill the imagine or hurt them like kryptonite to Superman so overall this is an excellent book. I really enjoyed reading and finished off in a couple of days. Tell me is an excellent author and look forward to reading more of her books.