About the Books
Title: The Lost Prince
Author: Julie Kagawa
Series: The Call of the Forgotten #1
Genre: YA Fantasy
Pages: 377
Edition Read: Kindle eBook
Dates Read: January 5-8, 2026
Blurb: 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’d 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 myth 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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Title: The Iron Traitor
Author: Julie Kagawa
Series: The Call of the Forgotten #2
Genre: YA Fantasy
Pages: 304
Edition Read: Kindle eBook
Dates Read: January 9-18, 2026
Blurb: In the real world, when you vanish into thin air for a week, people tend to notice.
After his unexpected journey into the lands of the fey, Ethan Chase just wants to get back to normal. Well, as “normal” as you can be when you see faeries every day of your life. Suddenly the former loner with the bad reputation has someone to try for-his girlfriend, Kenzie. Never mind that he’s forbidden to see her again.
But when your name is Ethan Chase and your sister is one of the most powerful faeries in the Nevernever, “normal” simply isn’t to be. For Ethan’s nephew, Keirran, is missing, and may be on the verge of doing something unthinkable in the name of saving his own love. Something that will fracture the human and faery worlds forever, and give rise to the dangerous fey known as the Forgotten. As Ethan’s and Keirran’s fates entwine and Keirran slips further into darkness, Ethan’s next choice may decide the fate of them all.
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Title: The Iron Warrior
Author: Julie Kagawa
Series: The Call of the Forgotten #3
Genre: YA Fantasy
Pages: 330
Edition Read: Kindle eBook
Dates Read: February 1-5, 2026
Blurb: The Iron Prince — my nephew — betrayed us all.
He killed me.
Then, I woke up.
Waking after a month on the brink of death, Ethan Chase is stunned to learn that the Veil that conceals the fey from human sight was temporarily torn away. Although humankind’s glimpse of the world of Faery lasted just a brief moment, the human world has been cast into chaos, and the emotion and glamour produced by fear and wonder has renewed the tremendous power of the Forgotten Queen. Now, she is at the forefront of an uprising against the courts of Summer and Winter—a reckoning that will have cataclysmic effects on the Nevernever.
Leading the Lady’s Forgotten Army is Keirran himself: Ethan’s nephew, and the traitor son of the Iron Queen, Meghan Chase.To stop Keirran, Ethan must disobey his sister once again as he and his girlfriend, Kenzie, search for answers long forgotten. In the face of unprecedented evil and unfathomable power, Ethan’s enemies must become his allies, and the world of the fey will be changed forevermore.
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This series was very, very satisfying. I was a big fan of the original Iron Fey series and read it years ago, but hadn’t sat down for a re-read in a long time. I used it as a sort of finale to my reading year for 2025 and it just felt right. What didn’t feel right was ignoring this sequel trilogy that I had never read before. I didn’t know much about it, only that it involved Ethan, the younger brother of the protagonist of the previous trilogy. I wanted to know what happened to him and this sequel trilogy didn’t disappoint.
Ethan has had a hard life. He was kidnapped by the fae when he was a kid, lost his older sister to the fae when she became the Iron Queen, and has been tormented by fae in and around his house ever since. Naturally, since the fae have wrecked his family, he wants nothing to do with them. Of course we can’t have that, now can we! He has a very rough exterior and doesn’t want to get close to anyone. That doesn’t stop Kenzie, who is an absolute spitfire and won’t take no for an answer. She knows something deeper is going on with Ethan and is not the least bit deterred when she finds out the truth.
One of the things I really loved about the original series was Kagawa’s portrayal of the fae realm and it’s even better this time around. We get to not just see the Summer and Winter courts, we get to see the Iron court now in it’s full power. Meghan has done well in building it from the ground up and is now a powerhouse that can rival both of the other courts, despite being so different and new. Despite his anger and frustration with both the fae and with Meghan, Ethan’s reunion with her was very sweet and the lengths he goes to in order to make things better for his family is just beautiful. There’s a softie hiding under that gruff exterior!
The forgotten are scary villians who are also sympathetic – they’re dying out and need to find a way to save themselves. Of course, the way to do that is catastrophic for nearly everyone else in the world, but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do, right? And then there’s Kierran. Ethan’s nephew (who looks like he’s the same age as Ethan) has fallen in love with an exiled fae and will go to any lengths to try and save her, even if it means he has to betray his family and fall in line with the enemy to do it. This also makes him a very sympathetic villian and puts a lot of conflict into the story. Both Ethan and Kierran have to fight each other, but neither of them really wants to do it. They have different ideas of what needs to be done to save the people around them, it just has horrible consequences to the other side. It made for a very compelling story.
Also, Grimalkin continues to be the best character. He’s a cat, after all.
GoodReads rating: 4 stars for all three books
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