![]() ![]() New readers will need to go back to The Cruel Prince (2018) to follow the complexities-political and personal side plots abound-but the legions of established fans will love every minute of this lushly described, tightly plotted trilogy closer. A plea from her estranged twin sends her secretly back to Faerie, where things immediately come to a boil with Cardan (king, nemesis, love interest) and all the many political strands Jude has tugged on for the past two volumes. The price of her upbringing becomes clear: A human raised in the multihued, multiformed, always capricious Faerie High Court by the man who killed her parents, trained for intrigue and combat, recruited to a spy organization, and ultimately the power behind the coup and the latest High King, Jude no longer understands how to exist happily in a world that isn’t full of magic and danger. ![]() Broken people, complicated families, magic, and Faerie politics: Black’s back.Īfter the tumultuous ending to the last volume (marriage, exile, and the seeming collapse of all her plots), Jude finds herself in the human world, which lacks appeal despite a childhood spent longing to go back. ![]()
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