Though she earns the trust of the rest of the group, Luis remains wary of Val. This may be a homage to Hal Foster's comic strip, Prince Valiant or Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur. Val earns the nickname "Prince Valiant" after she helps a drag queen locate her shoe. She meets up with a group of teen-squatters, including Lolli (as in lollipop), Dave, and Luis. Betrayed and not sure where to go, Val runs away to New York City. Val discovers her boyfriend, Tom, and her mother are having an affair. At the start of the novel, Val attends high school, is a lacrosse player, and is best friends with the eccentric lesbian-identified Ruth. Valerie is the child of a single mother and is quite tomboyish. She has reddish hair, shaved close to the scalp. The entire Modern Faerie Tale series was nominated for a Mythopoeic award in 2008.Val is athletic with suntanned skin and freckles. Ironside was also nominated for both Mythopoeic and Locus awards. Valiant has won the Andre Norton Award as well as Mythopoeic and Locus nominations. Tithe was nominated for a Mythopoeic Award in 2003. This special bind-up edition includes Tithe, Valiant, and Ironside. Unable to see Roiben until she has fulfilled his quest, Kaye finds herself in the center of the battle of wits and weapons being waged over his throne.
But when Kaye drunkenly declares herself to Roiben, he sends her on a seemingly impossible quest to find a faerie who can tell a lie. Uneasy in the midst of the malevolent Unseelie Court, pixie Kaye is sure of only one thing-her love for Roiben. In Ironside, the sequel to Tithe, the time has come for Roiben’s coronation.
When one talks Val into tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature, Val finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming. But there’s something eerily beguiling about Val’s new friends. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city’s labyrinthine subway system. In Valiant, the companion to Tithe, seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her.
There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself as an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms-a struggle that could very well mean her death. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother’s rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. In Tithe, Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Home » The Modern Faerie Tales » The Modern Faerie Tales: Tithe, Valiant, Ironside The Modern Faerie Tales: Tithe, Valiant, Ironside
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