I rather enjoy Holly Black, I need to make a point to read more of her stuff, honestly. 
 This was really good! As in dark, twisted, fairy tale, with minimal romance, dark humor and a strong female character. 
 There were fairies, the normal kind, back, tricksy, gift giving (but in a back handed kind of way) and down right steal your kids and kill you evil. 
 Though this was the second book I have read this week that had parents who didn't seem to give much of a crap about their kids, didn't really feed them, had no idea where they were, and were painters too wrapped up in their art to really be good providers. I saw almost this exact scenario in Between the Spark and the Burn, sequel to Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. 
 Hazel is a confused, but strong girl who wants to be a knight and her brother Ben is a emotional openly gay musician, the gender roles were WAY reversed in this novel. I liked that there was a non straight love story, and a typical one, though it wasn't the main part of this story in ANY way. The romance was on the back burner. 
 The twists and turns were really good, between the two different sides of Hazel, all the awesome description of the creatures of fairy and the hidden gems of Fairfold and it's town people I couldn't put this book down and really enjoyed myself. 
 So I highly suggest if you like Holly Black, or dark fairy tale type stories you pick this book up. Waaaaay better than The Coldest Girl in Coldtown.