Valiant by Holly Black 313 pages
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.
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