The Folk of the Air · Book 2
The Wicked King
- Published
- 8 January 2019
- Pages
- 332
- ISBN-13
- 9781471408038
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Wicked King is the second book in Holly Black's The Folk of the Air series, published in January 2019 at 332 pages. It follows The Cruel Prince and precedes The Queen of Nothing.
Its place in The Folk of the Air
The Wicked King is book 2 in the The Folk of the Air series. It follows The Cruel Prince. It is followed by 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 9780316310352
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781471408038