The Cruel Prince
(Folk of the Air #1)
By Holly Black
Dates Read
March 9 - 14
2024
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370 Pages
Blurb:
Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.
And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.
Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.
To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences.
As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.
Thoughts:
I liked the approach of seeing the Fae world through the eyes of a human who was raised as a faerie and it was neat seeing a different type of faerie world. There was quite a bit of the 'not like other girls' trope but that makes sense being the only human teens amongst the Fae.
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