Took a little bit to go going but once I was into the book it was hard to put down. It is a different point of view from the first book but after getting into the new headspace it was a great story.

I don't use star ratings, so please read my reviews!(Description nicked from B&N.com.)“Helen Huntingdon is beautiful—so beautiful she has to wear an iron mask.Six months ago her sister Jane uncovered a fey plot to take over the city. Too late for Helen, who opted for fey beauty in her face—and now has to cover her face with iron so she won’t be taken over, her personality erased by the bodiless fey.Not that Helen would mind that some days. Stuck in a marriage with the wealthy and controlling Ali...

3.5/5Mon avis en FrançaisMy English review I saw the first volume for its release on several blogs and I must say that I was immediately intrigued. Do you see the gorgeous covers used? Even without reading the synopsis, I wanted to throw myself in the novel to discover how it really was. Okay I admit it, I have not read the first book, but I was curious to read this second novel, even though I was a little anxious to get lost in a story of this type. Finally even if I think it should have been i...

Pros: Helen’s a complex character, interesting plotCons: Alastair’s mistreatment of Helen is more told than shownHelen Huntingdon’s husband is part of Copperhead, an organization that aims to rid the city of the fae - and the dwarvven. Under his direction she replaced her normal face with a fae one, an act that now leaves her in peril of being overtaken by the fae and having her own existence wiped out. She’s not alone, almost 100 other influential women in the city have had the same operation.

Jane defeated the Fae Queen in Ironskin, but the fae threat is still very present, partly because Edward's facelifts included inserting fae magic into the women's faces--and there are now a hundred women at risk of fae incursion. Helen's husband is part of a group trying to expel all non-human life from the city, which includes more and more draconian rules and bad behavior from the government and the members of Copperhead. But there's something extra weird going on in Copperhead, and Helen is d...

You know, it’s kind of funny, in a sad way, how the opinions of others can affect me. I really enjoyed Ironskin, but it wasn’t all that popular with most of my blogger friends. As such, I was a bit afraid that I wouldn’t like Copperhead, as though I had been in wrong in my own assessment. It’s sort of my natural state to doubt myself, though I wish it weren’t. Clearly, I should have trusted my opinion, because I really enjoyed Copperhead as well, marginally more than Ironskin in fact.Read the fu...

Ooooooh! This is so darn pretty! I need to buy this series for the sole purpose of having such amazing covers in my vicinity. I like pretty things quite a bit, you know?

Four stars: Glitz, glamour and iron masks meet the Fey.Helen before entering the party, stops to unfasten her iron mask. Helen is one of the elite one hundred who received a face transplant courtesy of the mysterious Rochart.Helen and the rest of the women after their surgeries are indeed stunningly beautiful, but they paid a steep price. Unbeknownst to the women at the time, Rochart was under the spell of the Fey Queen, and he was removing the women's real faces and replacing them with fey infu...

When I read Ironskin, the companion novel to this one last year I thought it was a pretty unique retelling with fantasy elements that I not only enjoyed but really wanted more of. I didn't quite get the world building and a definite ending that I was hoping for so when this one came out I just knew that it was something I needed to read as well. If not to hopefully get more glimpses of Jane than to at least learn more about the world Jane and Helen lived in. Where Ironskin was lacking in explana...

I really liked how this book took a character from the first novel who seemed shallow and a bit insipid and showed us how very strong she actually was - and yet also still the same character from before. I loved reading about Helen coming into her own, standing up for independence, and taking care of others. Plus figuring out what she wanted in life, and who was worthy of spending it with her. Really lovely.I've read a number of series where the first book was based on a well-known story - a fai...

I like it. At first I wasn't sure if I would due to the switch in narrative viewpoint from Jane to her sister, Helen, but within a couple of chapters I got wrapped up in the story and didn't mind one bit. I'm disappointed that I have to wait for the next book to be released in paperback (I don't buy hardcover).

Neither spectacular nor bad, it's basically your usual 'victorian era woman who is smart but silly, has a dramatic/evil husband victoria character, and a mysterious sexy rogue man from the wrong side of the track, plus a bit of social issues/sci fi/fantasy elements.'

I had forgotten how fun and different these books are.

Full review posted here: http://www.bookwormblues.net/2013/12/...

Copperhead by Tina Connolly is the second book in the Ironskin series, set in a Victorian-era world where fey definitely exist, traded with humans for a while and then decided to wage war against them. Copperhead focuses on a different main character than Ironskin: Helen, Jane’s sister. Copperhead has the feel of both a companion novel, since Helen’s perspective is so different from Jane’s, and a sequel, since it tells of the consequences of the fey masks that a hundred women wore at the end of

I just had to read this book straight after the first one. I was not disappointed. The tale continues, with Helen this time, trying to deal with the fey in her skin and helping other women who had the "treatment" without knowing the consequences.

3.5 stars.

Great continuation of Ironskin which makes Jane's sister much more relatable.

Review also published on my blog StudentSpyglassPlot: ★★★★Characters: ★★★★Readability: ★★★★★Overall: ★★★★As you may remember, I loved Ironskin, and I listed Copperhead as one of the ten books I was dying to read this autumn. Given how impressed I was by Ironskin, Ms Connolly’s fantastic debut, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on Copperhead!In Ironskin we followed the fey-cursed Jane, who I grew to love for her compassion and her stubborn nature. In Copperhead, we follow Jane’s sister Helen, who w...

This is the second book in the Ironskin series by Connolly. There is an as yet untitled third book planned in this series which is scheduled for a fall 2014 release. This book was okay, I enjoy the world created here but did not enjoy the heroine.The Fey are slowly taking over the city and a secret society called Copperhead is becoming more and more prominent. Helen (Jane’s sister) is deep in the middle of it all. Helen is one of The Hundred, the group of women who had their normal faces removed...