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The Wicked King By Holly Black Book two of The Folk of the Air trilogy My Rating: ★★★★★ Genres: YA Fiction, Fantasy, Romance The Wicked King continues on from Holly Black's first book in the series The Cruel Prince (review  here ), so make sure to read that first. Even without liars, there can still be lies.  Five months after Jude has crowned Cardan against his will, things aren't exactly going terribly, but that's not to say they couldn't get better. Navigating the world of politics has never been easy in Faerie, especially for Jude, a young mortal woman, who cannot reveal her biggest secret yet: she controls the High King of Elfhame. To make matters even harder, Cardan is determined to undermine and show up Jude, despite his uncommon curiosity about her. When Cardan is shot and nearly killed by a jealous ex-lover, the shooter reveals to Jude what she already fears: someone she trusts has already betrayed her. Jude knows that she must find the ...

The Cruel Prince By Holly Black Book one of The Folk of the Air trilogy My Rating: ★★★★★ Genres: YA Fiction, Fantasy, Romance When Jude was seven, her parents were brutally murdered by her human mother's ex-husband, Madoc, who also turns out to be the father of her eldest sister, from a land of faeries named 'Elfhame'.  He steals away Jude, her twin sister Taryn and his daughter Vivienne, and brings them to a new home in the High Court.  Now aged seventeen, Jude still lives in Faerie, but she has never felt like she has truly 'fitted in' as one of the only human inhabitants. She is desperate to belong and escape the clutch of the bullying, vicious, human-despising Prince Cardan, who makes it a challenge to torment her and Taryn daily for no apparent reason other than that they are humans. Jude is aware that she doesn't particularly have any talents other than fighting and so, with that in mind, she decides that the way for her to win her posi...