Jude however, is not the type to stay down for long & pushes back each & every single time. Taryn on the other hand tries to lay low & encourages a non-yielding Jude to do the same. For the most part, the bullying is directed towards Jude for wanting to be in the royal guard so badly that she is actively competing in the tournament. Our antagonists are Prince Cardan and his fae friends who look down on all humans which make Jude & Taryn easy targets.
Always having to look over her shoulder, Jude knows the fae world is a treacherous place to live in & the only way to survive is to always be ten steps ahead. Elfhame is no easy place to live in especially if you’re a human which is why our MC Jude has given it her all to try & fit in by earning a place in the royal guard. We fast forward 10 years from the date he stole them away to find them all grown up into teenagers with very different personalities and feelings towards their new home & Madoc himself.
Murdering both their parents, Madoc is now responsible for his daughter Vivi and her two human siblings. Jude’s sister Vivi is half Fae & her father Madoc has come to take her back to Elfhame, the home her mother took her away from when she left him. A knock on the door brings a stranger into their home changing the course of their lives. The opening scene is one of the most cold blooded I’ve ever read, we meet our MC Jude in her home with her two sisters Taryn & Vivi. I get it now! I get why you all call her the Queen of the Fae! The Cruel Prince was EVERYTHING I never knew I needed & now I simply cannot get enough of this world. This all has changed of course now that I’ve read this magnificently twisted book by Holly Black. Where to begin?….well maybe with the fact that up until now I hadn’t come across a fae character that I liked in any of the books that I’ve read. *Thank you Little Brown Books for Young Readers and Holly Black for the early review copy in exchange for my honest opinion Publisher: Little Brown Books for Young ReadersĬontent warning: Suicide and Graphic Violenceīuddy Read: w/my Twin Gretchen (Q & A at the end of this review) Title: The Cruel prince (The Folk of the Air #1)
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