Review: The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa

Title: The Lost Prince (Iron Fey)
Series: The Iron Fey: Call of the Forgotten, #1
Author: Julie Kagawa
Published: October 23, 2012
Pages: 379
Genre: YA
Source: NetGalley
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Rating: A-
Reviewed by: Ellie

Favorite quote: “If the damn fey wanted me as an enemy, bring it on. I’d be their worst nightmare.”

summary from Goodreads
Don’t look at Them. Never let Them know you can see Them.

That is Ethan Chase’s unbreakable rule. Until the fey he avoids at all costs—including his reputation—begin to disappear, and Ethan is attacked. Now he must change the rules to protect his family. To save a girl he never thought he’s dare to fall for.

Ethan thought he had protected himself from his older sister’s world—the land of Faery. His previous time in the Iron Realm left him with nothing but fear and disgust for the world Meghan Chase has made her home, a land of myths and talking cats, of magic and seductive enemies. But when destiny comes for Ethan, there is no escape from a danger long, long forgotten.

My name is Ethan Chase. And I may not live to see my eighteenth birthday.

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Ellie's thoughts:
Ethan Chase may be a human but his sister is the Iron Queen and that makes him special. But Ethan doesn’t want to be special and he really doesn’t want to have the Sight which allows him to see the fey in our world. Ethan has spent his life trying to avoid the fey and sometimes fighting for his life which lead him to being expelled from his last school. All Ethan wants is to get through his senior year and be left alone but Kenzie, the school’s head reporter, has a different idea and will stop at nothing to get the scoop on Ethan. When Todd halfbreed fey and Ethan’s classmate goes missing Ethan knows he’s the only one who can save him and Kinzie is determined to follow into a world she never knew existed.

I wondered where this amazing series would go next and I was so excited to start this book and get to know Ethan and see what his life has been like since Meghan has become the Iron Queen. Ethan has had a really hard time growing up and because the fey have used people he cares about against him he doesn’t let anyone get close to him anymore. At his new school Todd and Kenzie both breakdown Ethan’s wall that he has created to keep people away from him. Todd is half human half fey and is shocked when he discovers Ethan can see him and enlists Ethan’s help to find out who is after him. When Todd goes missing Ethan knows there’s only one person who can help him and it’s off to Nevernever with Kenzie in tow.

The Lost Prince dives right back into the wonderful world that Julie Kagawa had created and we even get to meet up with some old favorites such as Puck and Grimlikin. Ethan is not a fan of the fey and he makes that very clear when encountering any of them. The quest to find Todd takes Ethan and Kenize all over both sides of the veil. They don’t spend as much time in Nevernever as I would have liked but it was still amazing to read about the Iron Kingdom and see what Meghan has accomplished as Queen.

This book is told from Ethan’s point of view and it was very interesting to see how he viewed Meghan and the fey years after she left everything behind to be the Iron Queen. In previous books Ethan was just the little brother that Meghan had to get back and it was amazing to see him as a young man trying to deal with the Sight and the knowledge that he has of this world that if he told anyone about he would be called crazy. Kenzie is great because she not only offers the most humor out of all the characters but she’s the only one who can get Ethan to be so angry and open up a little.

I missed Puck a lot in this book because there wasn’t anyone to really offer the great one liners or lighten the mood when things were getting dark. Kenzie does an okay job but this book is lacking some brightness at times. Part three drag at the beginning for me but after a few chapters it picked back up and got to the point where i couldn’t stop reading until I finished the entire book.

This is a very wild ride back into the world of the fey and I think any fan of this series is going to be so happy with this book. I do not recommend reading the Lost Prince without reading the Iron Fey series from the beginning. This book and the characters have so much history and such a large backstory that it would very almost impossible to know what is going on. I am so curious to find out what will happen next with the new fey that are emerging and I really hope we get to see more of Ash and Puck in future books. I loved this book and can’t wait to see what happens next in the best young adult series out there.