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The Seelie King's War

#3 in series

by Jane Yolen
Adam Stemple
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The exciting conclusion to the Seelie Wars trilogy. Full of magic, battles, and page-turning excitement, this series is a perfect introduction to classic fantasy.
The war that Prince Aspen and midwife's apprentice Snail started—purely by accident—is at hand. The Unseelie Army, the evil side of Faerie, will soon invade and destroy the Seelie kingdom. Aspen is terrified, not simply because his homeland is on the verge of ruin, but because he is now, after the death of his father and brothers, the Seelie King. 
He is a young, untried king; a king without a battle plan. But he has Snail, his first and only friend, and the only one who can raise the army Aspen needs—an army of changelings, like her. First, however, she has to convince the mysterious, dangerous Professor Odds, the changelings’ leader, who has a destructive plan of his own.

  • Creators

  • Series

    The Seelie Wars

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    November 8, 2016

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781101998540
      • File size: 1428 KB

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781101998540
      • File size: 1428 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 5.7
    • Lexile® Measure: 800
    • Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
    • Text Difficulty: 3-4

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      September 15, 2016
      Book 3 of the Seelie Wars trilogy brings the series to a close. Prince Aspen and his midwife-apprentice friend, Snail, have come out of hiding, and the prince is now king of the Seelies, chosen by the land after the deaths in battle of his father and brothers. Through third-person narration with alternating chapters from Prince Aspen's and Snail's points of view, readers learn how unconfident Aspen is about ruling and how woefully unprepared he is to fight off the looming army of Unseelies, led by the traitor, Jack Daw. As a desperate last-ditch effort to reinforce his decimated army and save his people, Aspen convinces Snail to go to Professor Odds' camp (where they hid out in the prior book, The Last Changeling, 2014) to plead for the changelings there to fight on the side of the Seelies. The abundant complement of fey characters populating Book 2 is here skillfully winnowed down to only those that matter. The riddle of the three questions of the Sticksman that Prince Aspen is charged to solve becomes a focal point in Book 3--so much so that its resolution not only brings the trilogy to an eminently satisfying close, but gives, retroactively, a greater depth and resonance to Book 2. A series closer that delivers a skillful balance of action, magic, and mental conundrums. (Fantasy. 9-14)

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    • The Horn Book

      July 1, 2017
      In this trilogy-ender, unlikely friends Aspen--the new Seelie king--and human healer Snail face war with Old Jack Daw and the Unseelie Court. The two split up to muster their forces before rejoining at the climactic battle. Action abounds in this fantasy adventure, but it's well balanced by humor, friendship, and the protagonists' satisfying emotional growth.

      (Copyright 2017 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:5.7
  • Lexile® Measure:800
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:3-4

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