Valiant has mild spice (1/5)—there are some intimate scenes but they're not the focus.

Does Valiant have a happy ending?

Valiant has a Happy For Now (HFN) ending—things are good but the story isn't fully wrapped up.

What tropes are in Valiant?

Valiant features several romance tropes including beauty and the beast, monster romance, rescue romance, secret relationship, survival romance, forbidden love.

What are the content warnings for Valiant?

Content warnings for Valiant include: addiction, substance abuse, captivity, death, dubious consent, emotional abuse, kidnapping, trauma.

Is Valiant a standalone or part of a series?

Valiant is book 2 in the Modern Faerie Tales series.

Valiant is told in third person.

What is the setting of Valiant?

Valiant is set in big city / metropolis, underground / underworld—urban fantasy.

Valiant is 314 pages, which takes roughly 10 hours to read at an average pace.

What is the mood of Valiant?

Valiant has a dark, mysterious, intense, melancholic, atmospheric feel to it.

Is Valiant on Kindle Unlimited?

No, Valiant is not currently available on Kindle Unlimited.

What order should I read the Modern Faerie Tales series?

Valiant is book 2 in the Modern Faerie Tales series.

Valiant

by Holly Black

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Synopsis

When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system. But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. And when one talks Val into tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature with whom they are all involved, Val finds herself torn between her newfound affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.

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Holly Black's second Modern Faerie Tales novel, standalone-friendly with a new protagonist (Val) though set in the same world as Tithe. A gritty YA urban fantasy Beauty and the Beast retelling set in NYC's subway tunnels. Val runs away after catching her boyfriend with her mother and falls in with homeless teens who courier for Ravus, a troll living under a bridge. The faerie drug Nevermore (grants temporary magic) serves as a drug addiction metaphor—content warnings are heavy for YA. Sexual content is minimal (one brief scene, essentially fade to black). Secondary characters include gay (Corny) and lesbian (Ruth) representation. The Modern Faerie Tales trilogy (Tithe, Valiant, Ironside) is complete. ISBN 9780689868238.

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Goodreads Rating

3.79 ★ (50.6k)

Page Count

314 pages

Published

2005

Primary Genre

Young Adult

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POV

Third Person

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Cliffhanger

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Format

Single Narrator (female)

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3.79 ★ (50.6k)

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