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The Folk of the Air · Book 1

The Cruel Prince

by Holly Black

Published
2 January 2018
Pages
370
ISBN-13
9780316461252
Type
novel

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About this book

The Cruel Prince is the opening novel of Holly Black's The Folk of the Air series, published in January 2018 at 370 pages. It's the series' starting point, followed by The Wicked King in a series that ran to four entries by 2020.

Its place in The Folk of the Air

The Cruel Prince is book 1 in the The Folk of the Air series. It is followed by The Wicked King. 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…

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