Oh my gosh. Wow. Started at 7 - finished at 1:35. Review to follow...The phrase "not everything is as it seems" could be the slogan of this third installment! Even though the first book is called Faerie WARS, it seems to me that we are finally getting to the 'war' part in this book. Those Nighters don't give up! Those demons aren't dead after all! Those aliens - wait, ALIENS?!?! Don't worry, they're really just the demons. Let's not get toooo into sci-fi. Everything has been leading up to this! If suspense was a cheeseburger, I would have got into a high-cholesterol heart attack. There were chapters where I literally was reading so fast I felt my eyes were burning into the pages. There were also parts where I literally didnt breathe. The last author who deprived me of such air was Rick Riordan at the final battle atop Mt Olympus in The Last Olympian! The series of events in this book were sooo shocking, so unexpected, i truly felt nervous, like "Wow Mr. Brennan, this is some pretty intense stuff!" Then, in typical Herbie Brennan fashion, he drops a major bombshell towards the end that whiplashes the plot in an entirely different direction. The only difference is, in this particular book, it was magnified by like 100x. As I was reading, I kept thinking, "This is not seriously happening, this is not seriously happening!" and at the end, I got my sigh of relief. Sorry, can't get any less ambiguous than that! I'm going to make a bit of a generalization here: I don't think men authors explore "relationships" as deeply and as genuinely as women authors. That's okay - cause they write awesome fight scenes. But I will say that as much as dear Mr Brennan is able, he puts into the relationship between the two lead characters: Blue and Henry. Those two go through soo much in this book, I found myself skimming other chapters just so I could get to their segments! And Pyrgus? Well, the little dude actually annoyed me! Something happened early on that made me go "ohh geez for goodness sake!" but again, NOT EVERYTHING IS AS IT SEEMS, and it was okay in the end. Well, sort of okay. I still was wondering: why would he do that in the first place?!?!?! Ahh, the dreaded (and highly annoying) "shock factor" variable. There's something that is still wavering in my mind: the plot dynamics are SOOO extreme, so creative, and so engrossing, that it seems at times that they are resolved relatively easily in retrospect. IDK why... everything works, and there's little in this book that doesnt seem to add up (like there were in the previous two) but again... it seems like since the drama was soo heavily amplified, i find myself harboring some feelings of uncertainty, like "wow that was really... umm...easy..." Maybe it's just because of all the hype. Oh Henry, why can't you just cut to the chase and stay in the Faerie Realm? Goodness gracious, dude! Quit returning to our boring world! Maybe he'll make a decision in Faerie Lord. =]
Queen Holly Blue knows that the fate of the Faerie Realm is at stake, and it is up to her to declare war on the Faeries of the Night. Much to her sunrise she receives word of a non-aggression treaty proposed by their leader, her Uncle, but can she trust him.Meanwhile Henry Atherton is still at home in the human world dealing with his mother’s new girlfriend and interrupts his father’s very young girlfriend when emerging from the shower. He is obviously under a lot of stress and assumes that he imagined a stress related fantasy of a realm of faerie. After a three day disappearance, which leaves is memory blank except for a flying saucer and little green men, Henry is suddenly transported back into the Fearie Realm. And he is reminded it isn’t a fantasy at all.On her visit to verify the intentions of the Faerie of the Night, Blue is kidnapped by Henry. It seems that the little green men weren’t a figment of his imagination but a guise for the Demons of the Faerie Realm so that they could use Henry to get the Blue. It seems that they are plotting their own takeover!Ruler of the Realm is the third book in The Faerie Wars Chronicles. The first book is Faerie Wars and the second is The Purple Emperor. Both are fantastic books! I don’t think my lousy summary does this book any justice, I mean little green men? But there is much more too it than that, and it totally plays nicely into the story! So, don’t let that stop you. This book and series isa combination of magic, futuristic technologies everyday realism, plus adventure and excitement! The plot is completely enthralling and unpredictable, right down to the climax! This is an awesome fantasy series! I can't wait to read the next book, Faerie Lord!
What do You think about Ruler Of The Realm (2006)?
Faerie of the Light Queen Holly Blue, her brother Pyrgus, Gatemaster Fogarty, and the Painted Lady find their world shifting and tilting dangerously towards war. Henry, having been abducted by demons and subsequently working for them kidnaps Blue. Pyrgus leaps at the chance to do reconnaissance work, in his usual bumbling manner. Meanwhile the former bank robber and mechanical genius from the "Analogue World," Fogarty, has assumed the robes of the Purple Emperor until Blue is returned. The action is fast and furious as the faeries of the light find themselves in a war first with Lord Hairstreak and his faeries of the night and then confronting the demons.Brennan's humor is similar to Pratchett's and the series reminds me of Pratchett's Tifanny Aching books.
—Cathy
well Henry is back at his realm and has to deal with his mom's Girlfriend (lez) but he is ported back to faerie world. This is when Blue is kidnapped by henry because the demons are using him. The light Faeries' are frighting with the night faerie's which is under Hairstreak control. This book series is my first book that has to do with different realms. This book does not remind me of any other book because i have never read anything like this. The chapters are very short so it changes from character to character fast. The book has a lot of characters so it's hard to remember them all.
—Eric
I read this book last night. Yep, the whole thing last night. So...clearly it was a good story. The only repetitiveness is that the Fairies of the Night and the Demons from Hael keep showing up again to almost start a war. It's new a different each time. But, this one got a little bit weird. More swearing, albeit minor swears and some fictional land swears, lots more grown up thematic material, as in, about re-la-tions. And not your mother-in-law.I'm just not sure I would want my young adult reading this one. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing dirty. It just has some weird stuff.Also, I am confused by the character change in Pyrgus. Up until now he's been a pretty reliable kid. Maybe not wanting the weight of the kingdom on his back, but a good kid. Suddenly he's like the goofball that never could do right. You loose a bit of respect for him. Hopefully he'll gain it back.
—Karen
