The Cruel Prince, Holly Black
The Cruel Prince, Holly Black
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The Cruel Prince

Author: Holly Black

Narrator: Caitlin Kelly

Unabridged: 12 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/02/2018


Synopsis

By #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black, the first book in a stunning new series about a mortal girl who finds herself caught in a web of royal faerie intrigue.

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.

About Holly Black

Holly Black?is the #1?New York Times bestselling author of?fantasy books, including?the Novels of Elfhame,?The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, The Spiderwick Chronicles, and her adult debut, Book of Night, as well as an Arthurian picture book called Sir Morien.?She has been a?finalist for the Eisner Award and Lodestar Awards, and the recipient of a Mythopoeic Award, a Nebula Award, and a Newbery Honor. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages worldwide and adapted for film. She currently lives in New England with her husband and son in a house with a secret library. She invites you to visit her online at BlackHolly.com or on Instagram @BlackHolly.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Teodora on December 24, 2023

4.5/5 ⭐ Full review on my Blog: The Dacian She-Wolf 🐺 “(…) cheekbones sharp enough to cut out a girl’s heart.” I love me a cruel and tipsy Faerie prince and that’s Cardan and only Cardan. I mean everything I said in the previous sentence. Every. Word. Is. True. Cardan was the best thing happening to......more

Goodreads review by emma on October 26, 2021

*clears throat* Excuse me, uh. Who cares? This is not a rhetorical question. I truly want to know. I read this whole ass book and I am still at a complete loss for something, anything, to care about. Not a plot point, not a character trait, not a single line of quirky banter I could get myself emotion......more

Goodreads review by Emily May on January 13, 2023

Jan 2023: Still impossible to put down and I know what happens!! Gotta say, I'm glad I didn't reread this before reading The Stolen Heir because that one would have paled in comparison. Nothing quite like Jude & Cardan. No matter how careful I am, eventually I'll make another misstep. I am weak. I......more

Goodreads review by Miranda on March 15, 2021

New week, New BookTube Video - all about the best (and worst) literary couplesThe Written ReviewIf I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse. Jude (and her twin, Taryn) are human but their older sister (Vivi) belonged to another world. Their mother fled when she was pr......more

Goodreads review by Yun on June 02, 2024

I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart, I yearn to best them. Wow, what a start to the trilogy! I'm not sure what I expected going into The Cruel Prince, but it certainly wasn't this much fun or this much nastiness. Jude was only seven years old when her parents were brutally murdered in fr......more