The Cruel Prince Trilogy
Note : ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Author : Holly Black
Release Date : 2018 – 2024
Genre : High Fantasy ; Politics
✧ The Folk of the Air, The Cruel Prince – 296 pages
✧ The Folk of the Air, The Wicked King – 316 pages
✧ The Folk of the Air, The Queen of nothing – 289 pages
↳ This last book just came out in 2024. I can’t wait to read it ! Especially because I purchased it in the collector edition (aaaah !!) what a beauty ! You don’t need to read this volume to understand the previous ones because the main story ends with the first three books. But the review avec the Stolen Heir is coming soon, stay tuned !
ꕥ Synospis :
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.
ꕥ Review :
I finished 2023 and begun 2024 with this book serie and it absolutely had my heart ! The author makes us dive in a rich, well developed fantasy world, where you’ll discover some extraordinary creatures.
We get through the political stakes and stories of the royal family at Terrafae. Her writing is irreproachable, her words are relevant and her story all well rounded, in the end everything sticks and fit perfectly. One of the thing that I liked the most is the main (and secondary) character development. She’s not like a lot of others fantasy characters : dull, naive, no personnality and no depth ; on the contrary, Jude is perfectly human with ego, sins, ambitions and her darkness. She’s real and interesting so we can relate to her.
And when we are reading the third volume, we can see that everything has changed and evolved and that she’s a whole new (badass) woman. Personnaly, that’s a sign of a sucess in a book.
The story is incredible : the suspens, the twists and turns, the conspiracies, the treachery and the manipulation never end ! It’s one of the first time that I find the second book to be better than the first one. I find nothing to change. I’ll just add : don’t trust Booktok when you see this book in the romance category. Because you’ll be disappointed if you only read it for the romance. Even tho it’s real and there, it is very secondary. This book is an enemies to lovers and a VERY slooooooooow burn. And if you want some smut you will not find it there. But some recommendations are on the way, don’t worry 😉
ꕥ Conclusion :
Writing : ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Story : ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Character Development : ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Intrigue : ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Romance : ⭐⭐⭐
Emotions : ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Smut : no spice
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