Reviews by Tag: faeries

Holly Black’s The Cruel Prince features Jude Duarte, a girl who was stolen from the mortal world

alongside her twin and older sister, Taryn and Vivi, by a Redcap Fae named Madoc. Years later,

Jude and Taryn now attend school among the higher ranked fae, including Prince Cardan

Greenbriar, the cruel prince of Elfhame (get it?). He and his friends, Nicasia, Valerian, and

Locke, do whatever they can to make Jude and Taryn miserable for their human heritage. The

The Stolen Heir by Holly Black features Suren, a former Queen of the Court of Teeth of

Elfhame. After the events of The Folk of the Air series, Suren finds herself back in the mortal

world scavenging for food and secretly keeping an eye on her former foster family, longing to be

a part of them once more. She is constantly being hunted by a hag from her old court known as

Abriella has become a fae and survived what should have killed her - but at what cost?

The throne and the court is in ruins, her sister won’t speak to her, she’s bonded to someone she

can never trust again, and she has strange powers that she shouldn’t and that she can barely

control. Somehow, she and her band of misfits must travel to the Underworld and speak to the

legendary Queen Mab, who they hope will give them all the answers they seek. And at the

Abriella “Brie” Kincaid is a thief - though by necessity, of course. She steals from the

richest of the rich, counting on a cover of darkness to keep her hidden, but only to barely scrape

together enough money to meet her growing monthly payments to her aunt. It’s the only way

that she and her younger sister can survive in a world full of fae, self-interested nobles and

royalty. She only takes joy in seeing the mage’s apprentice next door: the handsome, kind

This book got me out of one of my worst reading slumps I’ve ever had. Filled with faeries, the

human world, ideas of patriarchy and power, and more, this book is more than anything I

could’ve asked for or even expected. An enemies to friends to maybe lovers, admiration from

afar, all of which are some of my favorite tropes personally. The two main characters, Jude, a

human living in the Faerie world, and Carden, the youngest son to the High King of Faerie.

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black is a stunning fantasy novel - filled with every element a

good book should have: mystery, rivalries, magic, battle, and love. Jude is a human girl, whisked

away from the world she knew at age seven and thrust into that of the fae. Despite her mortality,

she wants to make it in this world of magic and war - which means gaining protection from the

cruel Prince Cardan, a classmate of hers and the most powerful and horrible member of the

Summary:

This story follows the life of Jude Duarte, an individual whose life took a very drastic turn of

events, very quickly. One minute she was living happily with her parents, twin sister, and elder

sister, the next, a strange man comes into their lives, kills her parents, and takes her and her

sisters away to a strange land, in which magic exists. Jude and her sister Taryn are humans, they

have little to do with this new land of Faerie apart from keep themselves safe from it, but

Jude Duarte is now seneschal, an advisor to the High King of Elfhame, who is Cardan

Greenbriar. She wants to keep Cardan and Elfhame in control until her brother, Oak, is finally of

age to become King. However, the Queen of the Undersea is threatening Cardan to marry her

daughter or else she will attack his kingdom, which makes Jude’s plans more difficult. So Jude is

trying to protect Oak, Cardan, and Elfhame, but unfortunately she gets captured by the Queen of

Jude Duarte is a human girl living in Elfhame, a world full of magical faeries, who is

treated cruelly for her mortality. She wants power and to belong with the other faeries by

becoming a knight for one of the royal heirs. However, Jude’s adoptive father doesn’t want her to

be a knight, so she becomes a spy for Dain, the future king, to have power from the shadows.

Unfortunately though, Dain and the majority of the royal family get killed by Balekin, another

When Jude was seven years old, a strange man came to her house, murdered her parents, and

took her and her siblings with him to a mysterious new land. Now, they live in the High Court of

Faerie, a magical place separate from the mortal world. Unfortunately, due to being human, Jude

and her sister are often treated harshly and discriminated against by the folk that live there. And

there’s no one Jude despises more than Prince Cardan, her main tormentor. All she wants to do is