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Travis Johnson _d94e — A must read for anyone who likes YA fantasy.

Zilynn Zhang 546718980cfb3 — Kiki & Jules Rating: 5 Stars and then some!! This final chapter of The Iron Fey series, The Iron Knight, was flat out phenomenal. We absolutely loved it!! We really took our time reading this book solely because we just didn't want it to end. It was written beautifully by Julie Kagawa. It took us up and down through a roller coaster of emotions, and kept us guessing until the very end. I'm sure soon, in the not too distant future, we will be feeling withdrawals and re-read the series all over again!! The Iron Knight made a change and is written from Ash's point of view. In this last installment, Ash, the exiled Winter Prince, is on a quest to fulfill his promise to Meghan Chase, Iron Queen, and return to her forever. The only way for Ash to survive the Iron Kingdom is for him to find a soul and become human. Before he can do this he must locate the ever elusive Grimalkin and find his way to the end of the world. Along for the ride is Puck, who appears to not be wanted by Ash due to his constant poking of the hornet's nest, but in all reality is Ash's true and only friend. There were times that we felt Puck stole the show. With his never ending side comments and quips during battles, we laughed until we cried. We really don't think the book would have been the same without Puck. There is so much involved in Ash's quest that there is never any shortage of excitement and adventure. You see the warrior in him, and for once your feel all the emotion he holds for Megan. What he thought in the past as a weakness now drives him on. He will fulfill his duty for her or die trying. No matter the danger or depth of his challenge Ash never wavered from his quest until Ariella, his first love, returns from "the dead". Guilt over the time lost with Ariella and the fear of not fulfilling his promise to Meghan threatens to pull Ash apart. Ariella tries to calm the storm revealing that she purposely hid herself from Puck and Ash to ensure that they meet Megan. She explains how as a seer she saw that it was Ash's destiny to save Megan, and in turn save all of Fey. But she does let her jealousy and love of Ash get the best of her and interferes at every turn whenever Ash has a fleeting moment with Megan. It was enough to drive any man insane. Along with her return comes the anger and pain Ash has toward Puck causing an even bigger web to be weaved. It isn't until near the end of the Gauntlet that Ash discovers himself. He sees his future with Megan, even the loss of his own life, and he sees what it truly means to have a soul. It is then he sees that he has nothing without Megan, and even if he is to die in the end it would be worth it just to be with her. From every moment, to every conversation, to the depth of the characters, and the vivid settings, all the way up to the very end this book was amazing!! What else can we say! Happy Reading ~Kiki & Jules

Cristina Dordal cristinadordal — Borrowed from public library. Adult fiction. This is a terrible book. Way too much garbage: affairs, sex, language. I won't read any more of hers. The only good one was To Touch A Dream. Nothing good to say about the content of this one.

David Kramer davidkramer — Readers of Abraham Merritt's first four novels--"The Moon Pool," "The Metal Monster," "The Face in the Abyss" and "The Ship of Ishtar"--may feel a little surprised as they get into his fifth, "Seven Footprints to Satan." Whereas those earlier fantasy masterpieces featured exotic locales such as the Pacific islands, the Himalayas and Peru; extravagant purple prose, dense with hyperadjectival descriptions; and living light creatures, metallic sentient cubes, a lost semireptilian race and battling gods, "Footprints" takes place, for the most part, in good ol' New York City and its suburbs, and tells an almost realistic tale of kidnapping and crime in direct, almost blunt prose. Indeed, although "Footprints" first appeared in "Argosy" magazine in 1927, and in book form the following year, it almost reads as if it had come from the pages of one of the crime pulps, such as "Black Mask" or "Crack Detective Stories." In this fast-moving tale, we meet James Kirkham, an adventurer/explorer (and, with a name like that, future candidate for Star Fleet Academy!) who is kidnapped off the streets of downtown Manhattan by the minions of Satan, a crime lord/supervillain/evil genius. Kirkham is forced to play a game in Satan's lair, during which he is made to tread on seven glowing footprints, four of which are "fortunate" and three "unfortunate." Depending on the steps he lands on, he will either be killed, serve Satan for a year, be given a fantastic fortune, etc. I am not giving away too much by saying that Kirkham winds up a bond servant to Satan, and is compelled to commit various fantastic crimes while in his service. He is housed in Satan's mazelike chateau with dozens of others, and falls in love with a fellow prisoner, Eve. (I suppose having Kirkham's first name be "Adam" would have been forcing things a bit!) Grotesque in appearance, vast of intellect, profound lover of beauty, and sadistic in the extreme, Satan makes for one terrific character. With his strain of Chinese background, he is reminiscent of Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu, but also of the supervillains of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. Indeed, for much of the novel, it is unclear whether Satan is or isn't the actual article; Old Scratch himself. The scenes in which he is present are quite riveting. Merritt keeps things barely on this side of reality; nothing that transpires in the book--the museum theft, the slaves kept in bondage by the mind-altering kehft drug, the worldwide criminal organization, the high-seas piracy--is beyond the realm of credibility. And, suiting style to story, Merritt, as I mentioned up top, writes in spare, wonderfully controlled, crime-pulp prose. Thus, we get a line such as "I shot from the floor, and ...drilled [him] through the head." The dropping of the aforementioned purple prose makes the book seem lean and streamlined; it really does move, and keeps the reader turning the pages. The finale of the book is thrilling in the extreme, and concludes most satisfactorily. I have read that "Footprints" was turned into a 1928 film starring Thelma Todd as Eve, but from the plot synopses on imdb.com, it would seem that this film is a very loose adaptation, at best. I'd love to see it one day, just for comparative purposes, but can't imagine it equalling the suspense and excitement of the book. "Footprints" may have been a change in direction for A. Merritt, but it still makes for marvelous entertainment.