Review: The Iron Vow (The Iron Fey Evenfall #3)

The Iron Vow (The Iron Fey Evenfall #3) by Julie Kagawa

Published By: Harlequin Teen
Publication Date: May 1, 2023
Date Read: December 12, 2024
Genre: YA – Paranormal Romance
Source: Bought
Format: E-Book / Audiobook
Pages: 419

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About The Book:
The extraordinary finale to Julie Kagawa’s New York Times and internationally bestselling Iron Fey series is here … and the fate of the Nevernever and all the world hangs in the balance. Join Meghan, Ash, Puck, Grimalkin, and the entire Iron Fey cast for this final epic journey into worlds where imagination knows no boundaries…

After leaping through the portal to Evenfall, Meghan and her companions find themselves in a terrifying new world where Nightmares roam and glamour is nearly nonexistent. As their magic wanes and the creatures of Evenfall rise against them, the race to find the Nightmare King grows ever more desperate. But what they discover will shake everything they thought they knew to the core.

The Nightmare King stirs. A world hangs in the balance. And as twilight descends upon all the realms of Faery, Meghan and her allies must make one more impossible choice.

The Iron Fey series is a series I have been reading for such a long time. I first started reading this series back in the early 2010s, and I was super excited to see how the series was going to end. This is the third time this series has ‘ended’ and I really do hope that this is the end of the series for good this time. I love everything about this series, but I am definitely ready to say goodbye to the series and the characters now.

I dove straight into The Iron Vow, as soon as I finished The Iron Sword. This may have been a bad idea for me. I am not a binge reader. I get really bored when I spend more than one book consecutively in the same world and I did feel like this during The Iron Vow. I originally started reading this book on kindle, and I was struggling so I switched over to Audio. I did enjoy it, but I do think my enjoyment was affected by the fact that I read 2 books in the series back to back.

The Iron Vow is told from Meghan’s point of view, and while fans of the series will be thrilled with this, I was still super sad that this trilogy wasn’t told from Puck’s perspective. We got 3 books of Meghan’s in the original series, and I personally feel like it should have been left that way. Her point of view bored me at times, but I do understand why the author decided to take this route with the final books.

I do feel like there were some pacing issues with The Iron Vow. I really enjoyed the beginning of the book, and the last 30% was fantastic, but the part in the middle just dragged a little bit for me. There was a lot of time where nothing really happened. I appreciate that there was a lot of journeying through this new world of faerie, but I felt like too much of it was ‘we’ve met this new fey and now we are going to wander this wood for another 20+ pages and I got very bored. All in all it was a fantastic ending to the series, and I did find myself getting emotional towards the end of the book. I have truly loved this series and I think The Iron Vow did a great job of tying the three series together and being a great ending for all of them.

The Iron Vow was a satisfying conclusion to the series and I am so glad I took this journey into The Iron Fey world once more with this trilogy. I do feel I’d have enjoyed it a lot more had the whole series been Puck and Nyx’s point of view but all in all it was a fun and enjoyable read and one I definitely recommend to any YA and Fae fans.