The Folk of the Air · Book 4
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
- Published
- 24 November 2020
- Pages
- 200
- ISBN-13
- 9781471410017
- Type
- novella

About this book
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories is a 200-page novella closing out Holly Black's The Folk of the Air series, published in November 2020. It follows The Queen of Nothing as the series' fourth and final entry.
Its place in The Folk of the Air
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories is book 4 in the The Folk of the Air series. It follows The Queen of Nothing. See the full The Folk of the Air reading order.
After her parents are murdered by a faerie general, Jude Duarte grows up mortal in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, alongside her sisters -- one Fae, one changeling like her. Mortals have no real power in Elfhame, so Jude claws for scraps of it any way she can: political games, poison, blades, and an increasingly dangerous rivalry with Prince Cardan, the cruelest and most beautiful of the High King's children. Holly Black built the modern fae-court romantasy template here: a mortal girl who refuses to stay…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316540889
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781471410017