| Winter's Passage |  | Author: Julie Kagawa
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,389
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B003N2QUZG
Publication Date: May 20, 2010
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Product Description
Meghan Chase used to be an ordinary girl...until she discovered that she is really a faery princess. After escaping from the clutches of the deadly Iron fey, Meghan must follow through on her promise to return to the equally dangerous Winter Court with her forbidden love, Prince Ash. But first, Meghan has one request: that they visit Puck--Meghan's best friend and servant of her father, King Oberon--who was gravely injured defending Meghan from the Iron Fey. Yet Meghan and Ash's detour does not go unnoticed. They have caught the attention of an ancient, powerful hunter--a foe that even Ash may not be able to defeat.... An eBook exclusive story from Julie Kagawa's Iron Fey series.
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 Passing Grade September 5, 2010
Galleysmith (Metro DC)
This novella takes place in the aftermath of Kagawa's The Iron King just prior to the outset of The Iron Daughter. I'll say that my thoughts on these four chapters are strongly influenced by the fact that I actually read a galley of The Iron Daughter prior to reading Winter's Passage. So, I think that took away some of the anticipation and punch of reading these chapters.
Don't get me wrong, the novella definitely filled in some of the gaps between where we left off and where we picked back up, but I felt slightly ambivilent about it because I already knew where we were ultimately landing. This ambivalence in no way reflects on the quality of the writing (which was extremely good), the characterizations (which I still love) and the quick plot line (which provided additional information to what I read in Iron Daughter). This is all strictly on me!
What was great about this story was that for a girl who sits firmly on the side of Team Ash I got some awesome stuff. He was his usual seesawing self -- equal parts tender and brash. Then there was Meghan who gave as good as she got. Together they had another common enemy to defeat that should have united them. Whether it did or not I will not reveal simply to avoid spoiling both this story and some of the plot of The Iron Daughter. There was also a really great twist surrouding the common enemy that was towards the end of the novella. It took me by surprise which I really loved because I had no idea it was coming.
In the end I got enjoyment out of reading Winter's passage it offered some really great stuff to read. It was just a bit anti-cimactic given the order in which I read it. Moral of this story, definitely read Winter's Passage, it was as awesome as The Iron King, but definitely read it in order. Have Iron Daughter directly at your fingertips because you'll want to dive right in.
 Filling in the Spaces September 1, 2010
Karen Keyte (Cumberland, ME USA)
This novella of the Iron Fey covers the period of time between the end of The Iron King and the beginning of The Iron Daughter. It describes the journey of Ash and Meghan (accompanied at times by the Cait Sith Grimalkin) between her home in the Louisiana bayou and the Unseelie Court of Queen Mab in Tir Na Nog.
As with The Iron King, Winter's Passage features a richly imagined world, lovingly created and peopled with beings both fearsome and magical. In their travels across the lands of winter, Ash and Meghan encounter a dangerous hunter while struggling to reconcile their feelings for one another with the fact that Ash has made an unbreakable vow to bring Meghan to Queen Mab as a prisoner. Both the action sequences and the romance are deftly handled, heightening the anticipation for The Iron Daughter while still telling a wonderful, self-contained story.
A Dark and Dangerous Place August 31, 2010
TicToc
Never make a contract with a Faery. Meghan Chase knows this but it could not be helped. You do what you have to do to survive or in this case to save her brother Ethan, kidnapped by the Iron fey. Since Meghan has discovered her identity she has also learned to never swim in quiet ponds and to never trust talking cats.These are some hard truths and Meghan knows that the contract can not be broken and the fey always collect.
Its payback time and Meghan finds her heart beating faster, not sure if it is because Prince Ash has come to take her to his mother, Queen Mab, or because of her feeling for this tall and dark fey, so beautiful and so dangerous. She knows they have a bond but that he will follow through with his duty and deliver her to the Unseelie Winter Court. Having found, during her rescue of her brother, that she is half fey the problem is she is the daughter of King Oberon of the Seelie Court, so she is a sworn enemy of the Winter or Unseelie Court.
Knowing that Prince Ash has no option but to deliver her, she has but one request. She wants to see her best friend Puck. He saved her from the iron fey putting himself in deadly peril. She had not seen him since he had been injured.
Meghan had known Puck her entire life, they were great friends, it was not until just recently that she found out that Puck, who she knew as Rob Goodfell, actually worked for her father and had been assigned to protect her since birth.
Prince Ash has agreed to this request , wanting to do something for Meghan, knowing in the end he would be her betrayer. Moving from the real world to the fey world is not so difficult if you know where to go and where the trods are. These trods are the portals into the Nevernever, and can be just about anything, an old barn door, cemetery gates, and even old bathroom stalls. They are usually guarded by vicious creatures left by the fey to keep their borders safe. Once they find Puck, and she is assured that he is healing, Ash will then deliver her to Tir Na Nog the home of Queen Mab and the center of the Winter Court.
It is during this journey that she again runs into Grimalkin the talking faery cat. He agrees to journey with them but also warns them of danger. There are other creatures in the wood and in this part of the winter area, they do not like the summer folk. While they know she is being delivered to the queen the hatred for her kind runs deep. As the three companions enter the forrest they find themselves pursued by the unimaginable. There is danger and peril at every turn. Will Ash be able to save her, just to deliver her to her justice in the end, or will either of them survive in this savage but cold and beautiful place.
Julie Kagawa has portrayed a beautiful and dangerous place with all kind of creatures that go bump in the night. She has also developed some wonderful characters, with great depth. The story is ingenious and makes for a great series. Will being sworn enemies stand between the feelings of Meghan and Prince Ash. I can't wait for the next book to come out to see what happens.
Winter's Passage Review August 22, 2010
Bailey (IB Book Blogging) (Arizona)
I didn't think it was possible to patch so much action, romance, suspense, and drama in a short novella but Julie pulled it off with this book! Winter's Passage picks up from where The Iron King left off and follows Meghan and Ash's journey to the Winter Court. Grim also joins Meg and Ash on their journey and adds more to the story. I love that cat!
I have to say that I am so glad that I waited to read this novella until now, when I have The Iron Daughter waiting right beside me! The story ends at a critical point and leaves you wanting more!
Winters Passage by Julie Kagawa August 18, 2010
A Bookworms Haven
This is actually a novella not a full length book that you can get online in e-book format. The story picks up exactly where Iron King left off, Meghan is going with Ash to the Winter Court and this story tells their journey to that court. All the major characters are back, although poor Puck is still in a "coma" and does not play a huge role in this book. Which I was OK with because I really like Puck but I am team Ash, sorry team Puck fans! Anyways, my favorite character in this series is Grimlakin and he always pops up in the most unexpected place possible. I am still not sure how that cat travels so quickly or manages to get himself places faster than anyone else could. I guess that part of the mystery that surrounds Grim, and I am not sure I would want it any other way.
As the story progresses, I am reminded of how much I love the way Julie describes things in her stories, for example
" an eerie gray forest surrounded us, mist creeping over the ground like a living thing, coiling around the horses legs...everything was dark and faded, like all color had been washed out, a forest trapped in perpetual twilight."
Descriptions like that make it very easy for me to lose myself in the book that I am reading and be taken into another world where anything can happen. Not surprisingly Meghan and Ash run into some trouble on their journey to the winter court. They are being hunted by an unnamed, unseen, creature that haunts their steps and keeps them traveling quickly. As they journey there are those little moments between Meghan and Ash that I love, where he puts down his walls and lets his feelings for Meghan come to the surface. Julie does a great job of giving us enough of those moments that we are happy, but not enough that we are ever fully satisfied with the progression of this relationship. I have loved reading Meghan's journey and Julie has done an amazing job of describing this magical tale. I look forward to Iron Daughter which releases August 1st 2010
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