Violet Wings

Violet Wings is a young adult fantasy novel by Victoria Hanley.

For Zaria Tourmaline, the five years without her mother and brother have been lonely ones, living with a cold and distant guardian while she completes her education. Just as she is ready to join the world of adult fairies and genies, she finds a spellbook written entirely in her mother's hand.

But this treasured object is not safe from a new enemy, a fairy with more power than Zaria ever dreamed existed. Only among the humans--who must never know fairies and genies exist--can Zaria hide the spellbook; but hidden magic, it turns out, can expose a fairy in ways she never thought possible.

A sequel is forthcoming, entitled The Indigo Bottle.


 * Blessed with Suck: One child's 'gift' from a fairy godmother is a lack of curiosity.
 * Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
 * Cold Iron: Iron anything is outright immune to magic. It can also bind fairies and reduce their magic; disobedient fairies are given iron clamps around their wings as punishment.
 * Color Coded for Your Convenience: The colors fairies and genies get determines the strength of the magic they can do; the purity of the color determines how large their capacity is.
 * The Fair Folk
 * Fantastic Racism: Fairies and genies with low color spectrums (Red) are looked down upon by ones with higher color spectrums (Green or Blue).
 * Fairies are not fond of humans or leprechauns.
 * Karma Houdini: Lily, at least by the end of the first book.
 * Magic A Is Magic A: Troll magic is too powerful for a fairy to break out of..
 * The Magic Versus Technology War: Touched upon. Fairies are not immune to technology and weapons; a fairy being shot by a gun one day closed Feyland's borders to humans.
 * Our Fairies Are Different: Fairies are the female of the species, genies are the male, and they're as tall as humans.
 * Sadist Teacher: Mr. Bloodstone, at least to Zaria.
 * Science Fantasy: Subtle, but one of the boys has a laser pistol of some kind.
 * Sequel Hook: It's never revealed, and Zaria.
 * Treacherous Advisor: Lily to Zaria,.
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Leona discovers this the hard way.