Valiant (Modern Faerie Tales #2)

I first read this book at the tender age of 13. I reread it every year til I was 18. Now 9 years later, I picked it up again and didn’t put it down until I’d read every word. I love this book. I always have. The whole series is wonderful, but this book is a masterpiece. It sculpted me as a person, truly, and so my opinion is fairly biased. But I have never loved a book as deeply or as implicitly as this. It’s a true work of art – full of intrigue, beautiful imagery, a descriptive fictional drug experience that makes me ache to try Never just once, a love story so heartbreakingly beautiful it helped shape how I view love. It really is just an experience.

This book was fabulous! It has a different main character than Tithe but her story links with the first book! I will say there should be a trigger warning to this book as a form of drug is used and abused by not only the main character but by some of her friends! I have this book 5 stars because it has mystery, suspense and a great love story that reminded me of beauty and the beast!

As much as I enjoy Ms. Blacks books, I have to say I didnt care for this one. The time line is off from the previous books in this series.
Also, I find reading about drug addicted teenagers who kill kittens disgusting.

I didn’t really go into this book with many, if any, expectations because I already knew that it was going to have little to do with the first book Tithe. In this one the author didn’t jump into the story right away. There was some lead up to the events and a little more explanation this time which I liked. Her descriptions of how it is to live on the streets of NY seemed so well put that I actually began to feel cold and dirty reading it. I, again, had a hard time picturing these characters so I just made up my own description and images of them (didn’t mess with the story any, I just like to picture the characters clearly in my head).

If I were Val in this book I would have done a lot of punching in the face starting with dear old mom. I like the kind of bad a** Val was…a complete human willing to do anything for the “creature” she loved.

There’s not much, good or bad, that I can say about this book…It just registers right there in the middle. Nice ending, it didn’t leave me feeling all warm and fuzzy inside and it didn’t have me throwing it aside ready to move on. Altogether, not a bad story and I’m glad I read it.

While this is written in the same universe as Tithe, it is not about the same characters. It is also a very different kind of story than Tithe, so be warned. In Tithe, the protagonist shoplifted, smoked, and was a high school dropout, and all of these (relatively) minor flaws are kind of overshadowed by the fact that (spoiler) she isn’t human. In Valiant, the protagonist does a lot of things that people consider morally reprehensible (crazy drugs, casual sex, etc), and is ultimately held more accountable for her behaviors because she is human. I would like to point out that by the end she overcomes all this, which is more than what we can say for Kaye. Valiant is darker and seedier, but I still think it made for an amazing read.

Also, and this is just my feelings on this, I think a lot of people don’t like Valiant as much as Tithe just because the male lead doesn’t fit in as well with their idea of Prince Charming. Not saying that there aren’t legitimate reasons why people don’t like it, but for some people, I’m pretty sure this is the root of their problem.

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