Description: The "New York Times" bestselling author follows up her stunning debut "Tithe" with this rich, harrowing, and compulsively readable parable of betrayal, abuse, friendship, and love.

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Children's Literature Review: To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, July 2005: Readers of Black's previous novel, Tithe, know what the uninitiated don't: faerie has nothing to do with magic wands and glitter. Black's faerie world is a dark Gotham, where the shadows of the city hide strange doings and beings. At 17, Valerie Russell runs away to New York after she walks in on her boyfriend making out with her mother. Angry and disillusioned, she hooks up with a street couple, Lolli and Dave, who take her down into their subterranean world amid the dark, dank tunnels of the subway system where she meets Luis…and learns about the faeries that co-exist with humans in the city. She also learns about the faerie crystal powder that Lolli shoots up and the powers it can bring--but at a price. Valerie finds herself drawn into the dark world of faerie and bound in service to the troll Ravus, unwittingly caught up in an intrigue involving murder and deception. She also grows more and more fond of Ravus in a subpl...

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