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.
Tropes used in Violet Wings include:
- 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. Except Zaria.
- 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 what happened to Lily, and Zaria begins a search for her parents and brother.
- Treacherous Advisor: Lily to Zaria, and all of Feyland.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Leona discovers this the hard way.