Jude makes it a personal mission to get on his bad side after a few attacks from his group. Cardan is known for being cruel (hence the title), spoiled, hateful. Their friend, Locke, befriends Jude and becomes a romantic interest.

Her biggest enemies are Cardan and his group of friends. She won’t submit to them and they don’t enjoy that. Jude happens to be a badass fighter and a target to the faerie nobles around her. Vivienne, not so much, even though she’s the only one with powers and faerie blood. Jude (our main character) and her twin sister Taryn were young enough that they accept the faeries as their people and Madoc as their father easily. He takes all three girls to live in faerieland and acts as father to them all. Madoc (aka the murderer) is the father of their eldest sister, Vivi. The Cruel Prince starts out with three girls in their mortal home, their world is turned inside out when a man walks in and murders their parents. It was a good fix for me! Will it be a series that I read again and again? Probably not, but it was immensely enjoyable while I was reading. “To our clever Jude, who made the Folk remember why they stay in their barrows and hills, for fear of mortal ferocity.” This book is perfect for people who want a little bit of romance in their fantasy, who like their fantasy mixing with reality, who enjoy murderous, politicking, badass female leads. YA fantasy set in a faerie world isn’t exactly my favorite form of fantasy, usually. I’m reviewing them all at once because I read the series in three days and the reviews on them separately would be pretty short.įirst off, I was pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed this series so much. There’s also a novella called The Lost Sisters (which I didn’t read and don’t intend to… Taryn isn’t my favorite character). It is comprised of The Cruel Prince, The Wicked King, and The Queen of Nothing. This is an inclusive review for the series of Holly Black’s The Folk of the Air.

The folk air series