When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell 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. Impulsive Lolli talks of monsters in the subway tunnels they call home and shoots up a shimmery amber-colored powder that makes the shadows around her dance. Severe Luis claims he can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. And then there's Luis's brother, timid and sensitive Dave, who makes the mistake of letting Val tag along as he makes a delivery to a woman who turns out to have goat hooves instead of feet.
When a bewildered Val allows Lolli to talk her into tracking down the hidden lair of the creature for whom Luis and Dave have been dealing, Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. He is as hideous as he is honorable. And as Val grows to know him, she finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.
Bestselling author Holly Black follows her breakout debut, Tithe, with a rich, harrowing, and compulsively readable parable of betrayal, abuse, friendship, and love.
But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. Impulsive Lolli talks of monsters in the subway tunnels they call home and shoots up a shimmery amber-colored powder that makes the shadows around her dance. Severe Luis claims he can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. And then there's Luis's brother, timid and sensitive Dave, who makes the mistake of letting Val tag along as he makes a delivery to a woman who turns out to have goat hooves instead of feet.
When a bewildered Val allows Lolli to talk her into tracking down the hidden lair of the creature for whom Luis and Dave have been dealing, Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. He is as hideous as he is honorable. And as Val grows to know him, she finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.
Bestselling author Holly Black follows her breakout debut, Tithe, with a rich, harrowing, and compulsively readable parable of betrayal, abuse, friendship, and love.
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Hardback Editions
December 2008 : Library Binding
| Title: Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie Author(s): Holly Black ISBN: 1-4395-8380-3 / 978-1-4395-8380-7 Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
September 2006 : Library Binding
| Title: Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie Author(s): Holly Black ISBN: 1-4177-7994-2 / 978-1-4177-7994-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Topeka Bindery Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2006 : Hardback
| Title: Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie Author(s): Holly Black ISBN: 0-7862-8226-6 / 978-0-7862-8226-5 (USA edition) Publisher: Thorndike Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
May 2005 : Hardback
| Title: Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie Author(s): Holly Black ISBN: 0-689-86822-7 / 978-0-689-86822-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
July 2009 : Paperback
| Title: Valiant Author(s): Holly Black ISBN: 1-84739-343-8 / 9781847393432 (UK edition) Publisher: Pocket Books Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
September 2006 : Paperback
| Title: Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie Author(s): Holly Black ISBN: 0-689-86823-5 / 978-0-689-86823-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Simon Pulse Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
July 2006 : Paperback
| Title: Valiant Author(s): Holly Black ISBN: 1-4169-0119-1 / 978-1-4169-0119-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
September 2005 : Paperback
| Title: Valiant Author(s): Holly Black ISBN: 1-4169-0118-3 / 978-1-4169-0118-1 (USA edition) Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER CHI Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Audio Editions
June 2006 : Audio CD
| Title: Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie Author(s): Holly Black ISBN: 0-7393-3121-3 / 978-0-7393-3121-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Listening Library (Audio) Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
June 2006 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie Author(s): Holly Black ISBN: 0-7393-3597-9 / 978-0-7393-3597-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Listening Library Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
June 2006 : Audio CD
| Title: Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie Author(s): Holly Black ISBN: 0-7393-3598-7 / 978-0-7393-3598-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Listening Library Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
June 2006 : Kindle edition
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