Copperhead

Copperhead by Tina Connolly
318 Pages



The sequel to the novel IronSkin (which I have not read).  Copperhead returns to the world where the humans are at war with the fey.  The hundred leading ladies of society find their freedoms curtailed by the threat of being taken over by the fey through the magic of their perfected faces (apparently something that happened in the first book). As a result they must wear iron masks when outside.  Helen Huntingdon and her sister Jane are attempting to convinced these handicapped beauties to take back their original faces but when one such operation goes wrong, Jane disappears and Helen must track down her sister and determine who is at the root of a conspiracy to control all the women. 

Clearly a feminist novel in the guise of a supernatural fiction book, this work is okay but a little heavy handed towards the end in its feminist message.