"If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back." - The Cruel Prince
A story of faeries, love, hatred, family and badass women.
SYNOPSIS
‘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 years old 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.
In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering her own capacity for bloodshed. But as civil war 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.’
REVIEW
The best part about the book is that there is a very complex background to each character which makes the story more intriguing. Each character has a difficult morality level which makes it more challenging for us to understand them. This might make the plot a little confusing sometimes but it also gives it an interesting 'to like or not to like' factor.
None of the characters are clearly 'good' or clearly 'bad'. Honestly, the entire plot is kind of like that. Sometimes it makes you question the protagonist's intentions which some people may not enjoy but it was quite fun to read for me.
Unlike other novels, where the male lead is the hundred year old strong, tough one, here Cardan is a confused 19 year who barely knows how to wield a sword and is terrified of Jude. All of this makes his character development all the more interesting.
One thing I did not enjoy was that, the characters got a little cliché and towards the middle. Even the story got a little slow pace which made it hard to continue, but towards the end all of that got better. I was quite satisfied with the ending.
My Rating: 4/5
Author: Holly Black
Followed by: The Wicked King
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