Valerie is the child of a single mother and is quite tomboyish. The book follows the life of runaway Valerie Russell in New York. The second book in the series is about Valerie Russell a runaway in New York. But theres something eerily beguiling about Vals new friends. Valiant is the second book the Modern Faerie Tales trilogy by Holly Black. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the citys labyrinthine subway system. 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. When 17-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, shes trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. 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. 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. Severe Luis claims he can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. 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. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city’s labyrinthine subway system.īut there’s something eerily beguiling about Val’s new friends.

When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she’s trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her.

Valiant a modern tale of faerie