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Fantasy book series by Holly Black

The Folk of the Air

The Cruel Prince The Wicked King The Queen of Nothing How the Rex of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
Author	Holly Black
Country	U.s.a.
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Piffling Dark-brown Books for Young Readers
Published	Jan two, 2018 – present
Media blazon	Print

The Folk of the Air is a young adult fantasy volume series by Holly Black, published by Little Brown Books for Young Readers.^[ane] The story follows the journey of Jude Duarte, a mortal girl and Cardan Greenbriar, a faerie prince every bit they navigate the earth of hate, expose, contempt forth with feelings for each other.

The series is a New York Times All-time Seller, and has been optioned by Universal Pictures for a film accommodation.

Series [edit]

The Brutal Prince (2018) is the first book in the series. It follows Jude Duarte, a mortal girl living in Elfhame, a faerie earth. Swept against her will to Elfhame, Jude must adapt to living alongside powerful creatures with a deep disdain for humans and a penchant for violent delights while also figuring out her feelings for faerie prince Cardan Greenbriar.^[2]

A Visit to the Incommunicable Lands (2018) is a companion brusque story told from the perspective of Kaye and Roiben from the Mod Tale of Faerie series as they witness the events of The Fell Prince unfold. The story was released as a bonus exclusive for the Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition of The Brutal Prince.^[3]

The Lost Sisters (2018) is a companion novella from the perspective of Jude's twin sister Taryn Duarte. It is available just as an audiobook and an east-volume.^[four]

The Wicked King (2019) is the second book in the serial. It follows Jude and her newfound ability and position in the faerie world of Elfhame while Cardan is thrust on the throne. The 2 autumn for each other amidst politics, scandals, parties and plotting.^[five]

The Queen of Nothing (2019) is the third book of the serial. It follows Jude and Cardan as they face up not just Madoc who is hungry for the power and position of the throne, but also the extent of their love for each other.^[6]

How the Male monarch of Elfhame Learned To Hate Stories (2020) is a companion novella that focuses on Cardan's perspective.^[7]

The Cruel Prince [edit]

Plot [edit]

Jude, her identical twin, Taryn, and older sister Vivinenne are living in the homo world when Madoc, Vivienne's biological father, murders their human parents. Madoc takes them all to Faerie to live with him, his wife Oriana, and son Oak. The twins love Faerie and abide by the rules but Vivi, who 'truly' belongs there wishes she did not and disobeys. The family attends a faerie ball at which Jude is assaulted by Valerian, who is a good friend of the "vicious prince", Cardan. Cardan and his friends, Valerian, Nicasia, and Locke, come to repeatedly torment Jude and Taryn during faerie lessons. Cardan's father, the Loftier King of Elfhame, Eldred, must soon choose a successor, most likely to exist Prince Dain, his third oldest. Madoc says Jude cannot compete to get a knight in the Summer Tournament, which greatly annoys her. Jude and Cardan keep to torture each other resulting in him trying to drown her subsequently she refuses to withdraw from the Tournament. To save her, Taryn is forced to buss his cheeks.

The three sisters go to a mortal mall. Vivi tells them that she wants them to motion to the mortal world and live with her and her girlfriend, Heather. She wants to be human but the twins want to exist fae. At school, Jude pushes Cardan after seeing him speaking to her crying sister, which he says she will regret. Taryn volition not tell her what is happened only says that it was not about Jude and begs her to brand apology with Cardan by non fighting him tomorrow. At the Tournament, Jude fights well against Cardan and his friends. In front of anybody, he asks her to beg for forgiveness, and she makes him furious by refusing. While she is lying there wounded, Locke visits her and tends to her wounds. He starts displaying affection towards her. That night, Jude is told that there is a prince waiting for her in the parlor. She assumes it is Cardan and storms into the room. To her surprise, it is Prince Dain, who asks her to become his spy, and in exchange, he volition give her a geas, which has the power to grant her what she most desires. She asks to be able to resist enchantments, which he permits with the exception that he will be the only person who can "enchant," or control her.

The next day during lessons, one of Cardan's friends Nicasia starts making fun of Jude and snatches her notebook. When she tries to take information technology back Nicasia slaps her to the ground. While Jude is on the ground, Valerian shoves a faerie apple tree in her mouth, which has the power to make humans delirious with "stupid joy". The students take advantage of her land by telling her to take off her dress and toss out the salt that would have cured her of the effects of faerie fruit. Cardan asks Jude to osculation his foot, and for a 2d, she sees desire and shame in his eyes. Locke rescues her and takes her home. Before they leave, Cardan stabs Jude's finger with a pin, making it bleed. Tasting the salt in her blood, she is cured of the effects of the faerie fruit. At domicile, Locke says he wishes to run into her again and kisses her fingers before leaving.

Madoc demands to know who did this to her but she refuses out of fear he will kill them, which would probable event in the High King killing Madoc for killing Prince Cardan. Instead, Jude tells Madoc she wants to railroad train even harder and so she tin defeat anyone who attacks her. Back in her room, she receives her offset mission from Prince Dain; to go to Prince Balekin'southward home and find a treasonous secret. She goes in that location and investigates Prince Cardan'south room, stealing what looks to exist her childhood book, Alice in Wonderland. She besides finds a letter in Balekin's office, which she copies to bring to Dain. While hiding under a table in his office, she witnesses Cardan being whipped and driveling by Balekin. Dain receives the copied alphabetic character and believes that information technology pertains to the event of Locke's mother having been poisoned to death in the past. Jude goes to the Court of Shadows to meet the other spies who she will train with; The Roach, the Bomb, and the Ghost. At home, she's surprised to see Locke who kisses her hand. Taryn tells them to come to dinner, Locke declines merely hopes to see Jude at school. Taryn reveals that she will be getting engaged the night of Dain's coronation just can't say to whom. Jude shows Taryn a copy of Alice in Wonderland that she plant in Cardan's room. A notation slips out, on which is written "Jude" over and once more in Cardan's angry scrawl.

The side by side day at school, Locke smiles at Jude. She notices Cardan moving slowly because of the welts on his back. On her fashion home, she picks poisonous faerie mushrooms and begins a do of mithridatism – taking minor doses of poison to become allowed to its effects. She falls ill, and when she wakes up the Roach takes her for stealth training. Wearied at schoolhouse the side by side day, Jude falls asleep during lunch. She awakes to Valerian with her rowan necklace in his hand. Thinking that he can command her since she is without its protection, he commands her to jump from the tower to her death. He is unaware that she has no need for the rowan necklace because of Dain'due south gaes. She is able to resist him and stabs him with a pocketknife. Jude goes home with Locke and he invites her to stay for a party with his friends that night. While at his firm, she wears the dress of his deceased mother and finds a special acorn in the pocket. Locke tells Jude she looks beautiful, and the two spend the night kissing and dancing. Cardan, even as he is existence kissed by other girls at the party, keeps his eyes fixed on Jude.

Back at abode, Jude opens the acorn she institute in Locke'due south mother'due south dress with a message from Locke'south mother. It shows her predicting her ain death and request her all-time friend to accept intendance of her baby. Jude questions its connection to the letter she found at Balekin'southward house. Jude returns to Balekin's house to detect more evidence but finds cypher. While leaving, she encounters an ensorcelled man servant, Sophie, and smuggles her out of the firm to return her to the human world with Vivi's help. They ride magic horses over the border to the human world, but Sophie throws herself off the equus caballus into the bounding main, not being able to cope with living with what she experienced in Faerie. Jude feels overwhelmed with guilt. The next morning time, she is summoned to run into Dain in the parlor. She thinks he wants to talk to her about Sophie, simply instead, he scolds her for stabbing Valerian. To prove her loyalty to him, Dain compels Jude to stab her ain hand. She does, and no longer trusts him.

In preparation for Dain'south coronation, dresses arrive for Jude's family unit. Jude's dress is different than what she ordered but finds information technology to be the most beautiful clothes she's e'er seen. Oriana thinks she is romantically involved with Dain and warns her not to rise above her station. Jude learns Oriana was a consort to High King Eldred before marrying Madoc. She warns Jude of the Court and tells her of the murder of a pregnant espoused, Liriope, who was Locke'southward female parent. Madoc and Balekin have a long meeting, which leaves Jude curious. Madoc gifts Jude a sword forged by her real father, chosen "Nightfell". It surprises her to hear him talk about her parents.

The night before the coronation, a drunkard Valerian sneaks into Jude'southward room and tries to kill her. In defense, she stabs him fatally and eventually buries his body. The Ghost arrives to continue Jude's spy training. He has Jude impale one of Balekin's messengers, though later she does, she recognizes that it is ane of Madoc's spies carrying a annotation that says to kill the bearer of the message. The Ghost thinks it ways Balekin ready them up, only Jude continues to wonder what Liriope's murder has to do with the coronation.

At the coronation, Jude dances with Locke who speaks in riddles asking if she loves him enough to requite him up. Cardan cuts and says it is time for them to switch partners. Equally the coronation begins she sees Taryn and Locke share an intimate moment. The crowning anniversary begins planned until Balekin and his followers – who Jude is shocked to run into includes Madoc – kill Dain. Balekin wants the throne, but the crown cannot be placed on his caput unless information technology is done so by someone of Eldred's blood. He kills his father and all of his siblings who refuse to crown him. Prince Cardan is nowhere to be establish. In the chaos afterward, Jude hides under a table and presently finds a boozer Cardan. They escape the hall with little notice. Once out, Jude holds a knife to Cardan's throat and brings him to the Courtroom of Shadows. They question each other if they knew about Madoc and Balekin's plans. Neither of them did. The Ghost and the Roach show up and tell Jude that Dain was the one who poisoned Liriope because she was carrying his child, and he did not want Eldred to observe out for fear that he would not inherit the throne. They hold Cardan every bit prisoner for Jude and give her 24 hours to come up with a program earlier he becomes theirs.

Jude comes home and finds that Locke is Taryn's fiancé. She realizes that Locke has played her. She challenges Taryn to a duel for her honor. Vivi comes to Jude's room and reveals that she knows she cannot exist enchanted. She asks her to flee to the human world with her this evening. The adjacent morning, Jude goes to reconcile with Taryn but finds her room empty. She searches in Oriana's room but finds an identical acorn to the one in Liriope's apparel. Jude realizes that Oak is actually the son of Liriope and Dain. Oriana found Liriope as she was dying and cut the baby out. She married Madoc for safe and raised Oak equally their own. Madoc intends to use Oak's royal blood to get to the throne and he tin can serve as regent until Oak is of age.

In the Court of Shadows, Jude is horrified to find Cardan playing cards with those she trusted to guard him. She takes him to exist questioned and he vows to answer anything she asks. Jude asks him why he hates her so much, and he says it is considering her father loves her and she does non have siblings who crush her. Jude does non believe this and asks the truth of why he hates her. Cardan reveals that he hates Jude because he is obsessed with her and cannot stop thinking near her. With her knife to his throat, they kiss. Jude hates that she likes it, and tells herself that she must kill him before he makes her similar him.

Jude comes to the determination that the Oak must be the next High King, crowned by Cardan, and and so Jude can human activity as regent until he is grown. Still, she wants Oak to stay in the mortal world for a while so he can have a normal childhood. She tells Cardan about the programme and he agrees to go into her service for a year and a mean solar day of service in exchange for all the estates in Faerie and every bottle in the King's wine cellar. Jude gets support from other Fae courts for Oak's coronation. Jude gets the other spies on board and goes to convince Vivi by telling her about Madoc'due south plans to get the throne to take Oak to the mortal earth with her to raise him and keep him safe. Balekin holds a banquet to make himself High King by the support of the Fae courts. Everyone is shocked when Cardan shows up to the banquet with Jude. Balekin and Madoc blitz to them and they both play along with their assumptions that Jude has found him and he is there to crown Balekin.

Jude leaves to let the Shadow Court spies in but Madoc meets her in the hall. He tells her that she should have brought Cardan to him offset. Jude reveals she knows about his plans with Oak and asks him to promise to give upwards regency when he comes of age. He does not, so they accept a duel during which Madoc becomes paralyzed from drinking the poisoned wine that Jude offered him earlier. He asks her how she knew which of the two vino glasses were poisoned, and Jude tells them they were both poisoned and she was non afflicted considering of her mithridatism practices.

The crowd is existence seated for dinner when she returns. As Balekin rises to speak, a flop goes off and the crown is stolen by the Ghost who accidentally tosses the crown to Taryn rather than Jude. Reluctantly, Taryn gives it to Jude. The programme is for Cardan to crown Oak, but when Cardan kneels down Jude commands him to be nevertheless and Oak places the crown on Cardan'southward head, having been trained to do this beforehand. Cardan is furious every bit anybody kneels before him.

The epilogue follows Jude and Vivi shopping in Target for Oak. They are going to live with Heather. Every bit Jude leaves Oak asks how he volition know when he is gear up to render. She tells him that leaving seems harder than staying. Jude returns to her living quarters in the castle. She sees Cardan, whom she has not spoken to in weeks, looking majestic in the throne room. He tells her he will play his role and she can rule from behind the scenes. She knows he will make her pay for what she has washed when his year and a day of service to her ends.

The Wicked Rex [edit]

Plot [edit]

Cardan is five months into his reign as rex and five months into his one year plus 1 solar day submission to Jude. No one knows that Jude, interim as his seneschal, is the one who has power over Cardan and he is merely her boob. They hate each other every bit much equally always – Cardan angry that Jude betrayed him and made him king when he did not want the chore, and Jude hating Cardan since he behaves as such an awful king. Jude hopes she tin extend her power over Cardan beyond the adjacent seven months until her brother, Oak, is onetime enough to rule. She sent Oak to live in the mortal globe with her other sister Vivi to have a semblance of a normal childhood earlier he returns to rule.

Someone from the Court of Shadows tells Jude that another note from Balekin to Cardan from Balekin has been intercepted. Balekin wants his brother to come visit him in prison. Jude goes to visit Balekin instead, but he does non tell her anything of his messages for Cardan. On her mode out, Jude takes a guard named Vulciber to take back as a convict. Jude learns from Vulciber that letters are existence exchanged past Balekin and Orlagh, the queen of the Undersea. She is planning to use the information Balekin is giving her to ruin Cardan. Jude is surprised since her girl Nicasia is one of Cardan'due south friends. Jude will go Vulciber a new position outside the prison if he promises to bring her news of any further advice betwixt Balekin and the queen.

Jude returns to find Taryn in her room. Taryn wants to make amends and take Jude be present for her hymeneals to Locke. Subsequently, the Ghost brings Jude to Cardan'southward room, which has been largely destroyed – Cardan, Locke, and ii other faeries lie drunk and half undressed. Jude orders everyone out, and Cardan, partially wounded, shows her that 2 arrows were shot at him while he was in bed. He did not see who tried to assassinate him, only that someone faded into the wall as soon equally the shots were fired. They search the wall and find a secret passageway, and Jude enters the tunnel alone. Information technology leads to the sometime king'south rooms, where Jude finds Nicasia, who admits that she was furious to see Cardan in bed with another girl, and she aimed to kill the girl and accidentally wounded Cardan instead. Jude tells Nicasia she will exist executed for her crime unless she agrees to her terms. Knowing that Nicasia is the daughter of Orlagh, she asks what Orlagh'southward intentions are with Balekin and Cardan. Orlagh wants Nicasia to marry Cardan and dominion as queen. If not, she'll use her h2o power to sink Faerie. Nicasia tells Jude that someone she trusts has already betrayed her.

Jude brings Cardan to her rooms, the simply identify she is confident he will exist safe. He asks her to kiss him. She hates that she wants to and thinks of their past kisses and how much he hated that he wanted her. Jude goes to the council coming together in Cardan's place. She tries to convince the quango that Orlagh wants to move confronting their kingdom soon, but they do not believe her. Madoc pulls Jude bated after the meeting and says he all the same cares virtually her despite the fact that she poisoned him. He is glad she and Taryn are speaking once more.

Nicasia catches Jude staring at Cardan at a party, his request for kisses all the same ringing in her head. Nicasia still wants him likewise and wants to know what Jude has over him. Jude asks her about Cardan's mother. She says she was a girl from the lower courts, and the king never fifty-fifty fabricated her a consort. Jude sees Cardan and sees a familiar ring on his finger. She realizes he stole information technology from her hand when he grasped information technology earlier on the day. He pulls her aside to tell her he made sure Taryn is not here to run across the spectacle Locke created for tonight and advises Jude to leave. Locke, who Cardan made to exist is Master of Revels, announces at the party that they will crown a Queen of Mirth—a game in which a mortal girl is ensorcelled to call back that she being honored as the new queen but is instead grievously humiliated. Locke selects the only mortal girl at the ball: Jude. Though Jude is able to resist being ensorcelled, she does not wish to reveal that she has this gaes, so she endured the humiliations.

After the game ends, Jude sees creatures budgeted from the shore. Orlagh has sent them with a message they announce to the crowd: She wants to unite her girl and Cardan in matrimony. The announcement also gives threats for if he disobeys her up to three times. Cardan hears them out and then welcomes them to stay at the revel. He calls Jude over and asks her to quietly pull his council together. Earlier the quango gathers, Madoc calls Jude and asks her to work towards a mutual goal. He wants her to ensure that Cardan does not ally Nicasia fearing that the Undersea queen slowly conquered all the kingdoms until she is the ultimate ruler.

Jude and Cardan run across with Nicasia. Cardan tells Nicasia to tell her mother that the adjacent time she threatens him, her daughter will go his prisoner. She says that even though the message was a demand when information technology should have been a request, there is wisdom in it. He asks her whether she would want to be bound to him forever in an unhappy marriage, and Nicasia says there is more than to ruling than happiness, and she thinks her female parent's idea is a good 1.

Jude thinks over all of the possible options for rulers of the faerie world. She's nervous about Oak'due south presence at Taryn'due south upcoming wedding. He'due south also important to risk exposure to the realm at this tumultuous time. She decided to use a prisoner to send false data to Balekin near Oak. At that place was a woman at the prison wanting give Jude data about her mother. When she describes the adult female to the Flop, the Bomb reveals to Jude that this woman is Cardan's mother, Asha. When Asha is brought in, Jude asks for information virtually her mother. Asha gives small $.25 of information, merely Jude telss her that she will need to give up much more important information to win her freedom. Jude says to send word if she decides she wants to tell her more.

The quango meets to talk over the safest path for the kingdom. Madoc wants to use Oak equally bait to draw Orlagh out. Jude refuses to let this happen. A council member stops Jude subsequently the meeting to remind her that every bit the rex's seneschal, she can fire Madoc if she desires and discover a new general.

Cardan summons Jude and pulls her into a small room. He shows her a message Balekin sent him: Balekin wants to speak to Cardan and wants him to get Jude under control. Jude is glad her message from Asha has already been delivered. Cardan is concerned that there is much Jude has done that he is non aware of. Jude admits that she has been intercepting messages from Balekin. Cardan asks what he is supposed to do with it then. She tells him to have Balekin brought to him in chains to run across what he wants.

Jude asks him to seduce Nicasia to meet if he can get some data from her. Cardan mislikes this idea and instead practices his wiles on Jude. Jude is finer seduced past Cardan. As they kiss, Jude thinks virtually how, out of all the hateful things he has done to her over the years, making her like him more than is the worst one.

Jude works as a spy the next day to try to distract herself from thoughts of Cardan and what happened between them. She finds Locke and threatens him to stop bothering Cardan. Locke tin make him lose favor with and somewhen ability over his subjects every time he makes Cardan expect weak. She also warns him to never injure her sister.

Jude and the Roach travel dorsum to the mortal world to retrieve Vivi and Oak. Vivi still has not told her girlfriend, Heather, virtually anything Faerie-related. Heather thinks they are going to a normal wedding ceremony off the declension of Maine. Just before they mount magic steeds to attain Faerie, Vivi finally tells Heather the truth at the last. One time they arrive, Jude pulls Heather bated to requite her advice on how to keep herself prophylactic in Faerie.

Jude visits Grimsen to buy a gift for Taryn's wedding. Grimsen tells her he knows of her mortal father's metalworking and suggests that taught him a few things years ago. He offers Jude a pair of earrings to give Taryn in exchange for one of Jude's tears. The earrings are enchanted to magnify the wearer'south beauty. Grimsen asks Jude to take a message to the king: if they go to war, he will fashion armor that cannot be penetrated and swords so potent Cardan will easily win.

Jude goes to the Court of Shadows to piece of work on her safety plans for Oak. Cardan arrives to bring her news of what he discovered from Nicasia subsequently a few kisses. Her mother plans to act during Taryn's wedding. Earlier he leaves, he mentions the intimacy that happened between them the other night. Jude cuts him off and says she is sure information technology served the same purpose for both of them: to go information technology out of their arrangement.

Jude goes to Madoc to claim she wants to work together to ensure Oak'south condom. She tells Madoc she knows from Nicasia that Orlagh is planning to strike during the wedding. Madoc and Jude gear up iii traps for the Undersea forces during the wedding.

Taryn wants to spend the last nighttime before her wedding with her sisters. On her way to Madoc's house, Jude is attacked by men on horseback. She is injured though fights back and escapes. In the process, she loses the earrings she bought for Taryn. She sneaks into her quondam room and tries to treat the wound earlier anyone notices. Vivi finds her and helps stitch her up. The adjacent morning time, Oriana brings Jude a silver wearing apparel from her own closet for Jude to infringe for the nuptials.

Jude sees Cardan not long after arriving at the wedding. She sees the aforementioned await in his eye that is not unlike hatred that she saw the concluding time she was here at Locke'south house when he was watching her and Locke buss. He merely compliments her dress. Jude is worried that she is falling in beloved with him. Jude orders Cardan to never be alone tonight even though the implications of the argument carp her. Madoc heard their exchange and now knows nigh Jude'southward control over Cardan. He says they volition work together to defeat Orlagh, but after that, they will be enemies.

Jude hears someone crying nearby and goes to investigate. She finds that Heather has been turned into a cat. It'southward a amuse that can be undone, and Vivi speedily reverses it and erases Heather'due south memory of the incident. Jude is furious that Vivi didn't ready Heather improve and that she would erase a retention Heather needed to acquire from to go on herself safe.

Taryn finally makes her appearance, wearing the earrings that Jude intended to give her that she lost when she was attacked. Jude notices Locke's limp, and she realizes that it was he and his friends who attacked her.

Jude learns that Orlagh has made an set on on the prison house, and she leaves the wedding to investigate. Jude goes to Asha and sets her. Jude finds Balekin'south cell empty. Orlagh has rescued him in hopes of marrying her daughter to him and making him male monarch someday. The Ghost joins Orlagh's forces revealing to Jude that he has betrayed her. She is held captive in a cell at the bottom of the sea, and Nicasia comes to punch and berate her.

Jude is brought to eat dinner with Orlagh, and since she is not wearing any charms, Orlagh believes Jude can exist ensorcelled to do any they command. Fifty-fifty though Jude is protected by Dain's gaes, she acts like she is nether their spell. Jude is questioned by Orlagh though is also able to larn some of their schemes. She learns that Grimsen is making a new crown to brand Balekin rex.

Subsequently countless days in prison, Jude learns that Cardan has offered to pay a ransom to get Jude back. Balekin glamours Jude to brand her loyal to them and commands her to kill Cardan, giving her poisonous substance to do so. Upon returning to land, Jude learns that in exchange for her freedom, Cardan has made concessions, including allowing Balekin to be free and live as the ambassador to Elfhame from the Undersea.

Jude is taken to Madoc'due south business firm despite her request to return to the palace. THere, Taryn tells Jude she has been gone most a month and that Cardan and their father formed a truce to try to get her dorsum. Jude is called on by Dulcamara from the Court of Termites. Dulcamara tells Jude that Cardan gave the Undersea permission to attack her court and many of her people died. Jude learns that this was part of the toll of her bribe. Dulcamara says they pledged to King Cardan because he was supposed to protect them. She reminds Jude that she still owes their court a favor. The favor they request is for her to kill Prince Balekin. Jude says if she kills him, and then they will exist at state of war with the Undersea. Dulcamara accepts that this will mean war.

Jude goes to the palace to reach Cardan, but the guards have been ordered past Madoc non to permit her in. She attempts to enter the palace through a hidden passage known to the Court of Shadows just finds the entrance has been destroyed. Jude decided to go to Hallow Hall to reach Balekin, as he would expect her to do, and he gives her poisonous substance to kill Cardan.

Jude returns to the palace and sneaks into Cardan'south room. When she wakes him, he pulls her into bed with him when he sees that it is her in his room. She tells him that Orlagh and Balekin planning his murder. Cardan confesses to Jude why he betrayed others to get her back. He says that it took her being kidnapped to figure out how his true feelings for her. The Roach and the Bomb appear and tell Cardan that Jude is working nether orders from Balekin to kill him. They search Jude and notice the poison that Balekin gave her. She explains that Balekin idea he had ensorcelled her to kill Cardan, but that she is immune to such spells considering of the ages she received from Dain.

At a masquerade ball, Jude tells Locke she knows he tried to kill her before his wedding, and she plans to retaliate. Lord Roiben from the Court of Termites arrives and says he expects Jude to make good on her promise. Jude sees Asha at the ball and wonders whether Cardan reconciled with his mother.

Cardan finally arrives at the ball but appears to be so drunk that he makes a fool of himself. He somewhen pulls Jude onto the trip the light fantastic toe floor and kisses her very publicly. She recognizes the taste on his natural language—he has been poisoned past wraithberry. Jude escorts him away and finds the Flop to piece of work to cure him. Balekin sends a note that he has the antidote and that he will give it to Cardan in exchange for the crown. Jude duels against Balekin for the antidote and ultimately kills Balekin. When Jude returns to Cardan, she discovers Madoc had Taryn pose every bit Jude to fool Cardan into giving Madoc half of the army. Cardan agreed considering he trusts Jude.

Subsequently that dark, Cardan calls Jude dorsum to his room and asks her to give him his complimentary will dorsum. He asks her to ally him, which volition allow her to requite him any royal orders she wants and featherbed her needing to society him around to get things washed. He says they don't have to stay married forever merely just until it'south Oak'south turn to rule. Jude reluctantly agrees, though is fearful she will regret this. They perform the anniversary themselves with Cardan returning to Jude the ring he had previously given her. Jude follows through and releases him from his service to her.

The next forenoon, Cardan learns that his brother was killed in a duel, and he immediately suspects that Jude killed him. Orlagh arrives to have Cardan account for why her Ambassador was killed. Cardan accepts no blame because it was not his wish for his brother to die. Orlagh knows it was Jude and demands justice. She threatens state of war, and he threatens to use his powers over nature that being the High King of Elfhame grants him. He tin can command the land nether all of the water, and to show this, he creates a new island to emerge from the water. Equally he does this, Cardan traps Nicasia in a tree, and Orlagh relents in exchange for Cardan releasing her daughter. Cardan requests Nicasia stay backside on the country to serve equally an ambassador. To farther appease Orlagh and maintain peace with the Undersea, he exiles her to the mortal world. She protests that he cannot do this because she is the Queen of Elfhame, simply she is laughed at and dismissed. Ultimately, Jude goes to live with Vivi and Oak in the mortal world.

The Queen of Zippo [edit]

Plot [edit]

The Prologue recounts the birth of Cardan Greenbriar, and a prophecy made at his nascence that he will be the last of Eldred's offspring and will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne. The Royal Astrologer who makes this prediction also says that out of the male child's spilled claret tin a nifty ruler rise, merely merely afterward the aforementioned prophecy comes to pass. Every bit a consequence of this prophecy, Cardan is poorly treated and raised in squalor despite the fact that he is a Prince of Faerie.

Returning to the nowadays-day story, Jude is living in the man world with Vivi and Oak. Not having any human documents to go a existent job, she works odd jobs for a animate being of Faerie known as Bryern in exchange for money to pay rent. He tells her that Grima Mog, former full general to the Court of Teeth, has been exiled to the human world, and she has been eating the locals. Bryern gives her money in exchange for getting Grima Mog to stop her practice in this. Jude does so by fighting Grima Mog and making her promise to stop eating the mortals.

Jude returns home to find that Taryn has come up from the Faerie realm. Taryn tells Jude that she is pregnant, her husband Locke had been abusive towards her, and she ultimately ended upwards killing him. She says that in that location is going to exist an inquest into Locke's murder, and Taryn asks Jude to render to Faerie, pretending to be Taryn, so that she will be able to lie that she did not murder Locke, and thus volition non be punished for Locke's death. Jude agrees to this even though it puts Jude at chance since Cardan had banished Jude from Faerie under penalty of expiry until or unless she is pardoned by the crown. Jude returns to meet with Cardan and the courtroom pretending to be Taryn, simply later on the inquest has ended, Cardan takes her aside and tells her that he knows that she is Jude and not Taryn. He asks why Jude has not responded to any of his letters, and Jude replies that she never received any messages from him. An assail is made in the palace, and Jude is kidnapped past Madoc's army, believing that they are rescuing Taryn from Cardan.

Jude, while continuing to exist believed to be Taryn, is taken under Madoc's protection. He has taken half of Cardan'south army and conspired with the Court of Teeth to accept over Cardan's reign of Faerie. He has employed Grimsen to forge a new sword for him that will effectively overrule the power of the Blood Crown that Cardan wears. While in the camp of the Court of Teeth, Jude sends a message to her sisters to help her escape. While awaiting her escape, she finds the Ghost chained upward, prisoner to Madoc. She learns that Locke knew the Ghost's truthful proper name and that Locke gave Madoc this information every bit role of the dowry for his marriage to Taryn. This is the reason why the Ghost was compelled to kidnap Jude and bring her to the undersea.

The Roach and Cardan come to the military camp to help Jude escape, though she tells Cardan to exit since it is besides dangerous for him to be here. She tells them that she already has a plan to escape with her sisters. In her escape, she is caught by Madoc, with whom she duels. Madoc gives her a deathly wound and expects that Jude volition die from this. Jude asks for dirt to be packed into her wound, which saves her since she is the ruler of the land, and the state has the ability to cure her.

Jude returns to the palace every bit they brand preparations against the expected assault from Madoc's army. Jude has chosen Grima Mog equally Thou Full general against the assault. Madoc and his army come to the palace with Madoc bringing the weapon that Grimsen has forged for him – a sword that can harness the power of the earth, rivaling the ability that lies in the Blood Crown that Grimsen had previously forged. Madoc challenges Cardan to a duel, which will make up one's mind who will rule Faerie. Madoc questions if Cardan has the loyalty of the people. Cardan recounts the prophecy that was made at his nascency that he would be the devastation of the crown. He says that he believes the people should choose of their own free will to follow a ruler and not exist leap to a crown. He breaks the crown in half not knowing that when Grimsen forged the crown, he cursed it, which transforms Cardan into a snake. Grimsen tells that every bit a serpent, he will poison the land, and that true love's buss cannot stop it, only decease. Cardan, in snake form, then kills Grimsen earlier burrowing into the basis.

Jude, interim every bit Queen, tries to formulate how to maintain her rule against Madoc'south threat and solve Cardan's curse. Madoc and the Court of Teeth offering Jude the gift of a golden bridle that would be able to control Cardan. She afterwards learns that they gave her incorrect instructions on how to employ it, which would have tied her to the snake and left Madoc in command. A program is fabricated for Jude to capture the snake, but instead of putting the bridle on him, she cuts the snake's head off. The second part of the prophecy – simply out of his spilled blood tin can a slap-up ruler rising – is fulfilled when Cardan, in his original course, emerges from the puddle of the snake'southward blood. In the Epilogue, Cardan and Jude are coronated and they banish Madoc to alive in the human globe.

Characters [edit]

• Jude Duarte: High Queen of Elfhame; Eva and Justin's daughter; Taryn'due south twin sis; Vivi'due south half-sister; Madoc's foster daughter; Oak's foster sister; Cardan's wife
• Cardan Greenbriar: High King of Elfhame; Asha and Eldred's son; Balekin, Elowyn, Dain, Rhyia and Caelia'due south half-brother; Jude's husband
• Madoc: Former One thousand General of Elfhame; Eva's former husband; Vivi's male parent; Jude, Taryn and Oak's foster begetter; Oriana'south husband
• Taryn Duarte: Eva and Justin's daughter; Jude'due south twin sister; Vivi'south half-sister; Madoc'southward foster daughter; Oak'southward foster sister; Locke'due south former wife
• Vivienne "Vivi" Duarte: Eva and Madoc'southward daughter; Justin'southward foster daughter; Jude and Taryn's half-sister; Oak's foster sister; Heather's girlfriend
• Oriana: Eldred'southward former lover; Liriope's friend; Madoc's wife; Oak'southward foster female parent
• Oak Greenbriar: Liriope and Dain's son; Oriana and Madoc'south foster son; Jude, Taryn and Vivi's foster brother
• Locke: Elfhame's former Master of Revels; Liriope's son; Cardan and Valerian'due south quondam friend; Nicasia's erstwhile fling; Taryn'south former married man; killed past Taryn
• Nicasia: Princess of the Undersea; Orlagh'southward girl; Cardan'south old girlfriend; Locke's sometime fling
• Balekin Greenbriar: Onetime ambassador of the Undersea; Eldred'southward eldest son; Elowyn, Dain, Rhyia, Caelia and Cardan'southward half-brother; killed by Jude
• Orlagh: Queen of the Undersea; Nicasia's mother
• Van aka The Roach: Member of the Court of Shadows; Dain's former spy and theft skillful; Liliver's lover
• Liliver aka The Bomb: Fellow member of the Court of Shadows; Dain's onetime spy and explosives expert; Van's lover
• Garrett aka The Ghost: Fellow member of the Court of Shadows; Dain's former spy and shooting skillful; Taryn's lover
• Heather: Vivi's mortal girlfriend
• Grima Mog: Former general of the Courtroom of Teeth; Grand General of Elfhame
• Dain Greenbriar: Taniot and Eldred's son; Balekin, Elowyn, Rhyia, Caelia and Cardan's one-half-blood brother; Oak'due south father; killed by Madoc
• Lady Asha: Eldred'due south espoused; Cardan'southward mother
• Valerian: Cardan, Locke and Nicasia's quondam friend; killed by Jude
• Eva Duarte: One-time lover to Madoc; Wife of Justin; Mother to Jude, Taryn and Vivi; Killed by Madoc
• Justin Duarte: Former master sword-smith; Hubby of Eva; Father to Jude and Taryn; Killed past Madoc
• Dulmacara: Knight for Court of Termites; Guard to Lord Roiyben
• Lord Roiyben: Lord of Court of Termites; Lover to Kaye
• Kaye: Favourite consort of Roiyben; Alllied to Court of Termites
• Val Moren: Seneschal to former king Eldred, also rumoured lover; Court Poet
• Grimsen: Court Blacksmith; back to Faerie afterwards being exiled by king Eldred
• Eldred Greenbriar: One-time high male monarch; Begetter to Balekin, Elowyn, Dain, Rhiya, Caelia and Cardan; Killed past Balekin
• Elowyn Greenbriar: Girl of Eldred; Sister to Balekin, Dain, Rhyia, Caelia and one-half-sister to Cardan; Killed by Balekin
• Rhiya Greenbriar; Daughter of Eldred; Sister to Baslekin, Dain, Elowyn, Caelia and half-sister to Cardan; Good friend of Vivi; Killed herself
• Caelia Greenbriar: Daughter of Eldred; Sis to Balekin, Dain, Elowyn, Rhiya and half-sis to Cardan; Killed by the Ghost
• Sophie: Former man servant to Balekin; Rescued by Jude; Killed herself; Adopted by merfolk of the Undersea

Development [edit]

The serial features appearances by characters from Black's previous Modern Tale of Faerie trilogy, besides as characters from her standalone novel The Darkest Part of the Woods, establishing that those books take place in the same universe as The Folk of the Air series.

Film adaptation [edit]

In June 2017, it was appear that The Vicious Prince had been optioned for a film adaptation produced by Universal Pictures and Michael De Luca.^[8]

References [edit]

1. ^ Serrao, Nivea (April 24, 2017). "Holly Black is back for a new serial — see the cover now". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved October 9, 2017.
2. ^ April 24, Nivea Serrao; EDT, 2017 at xi:01 AM. "Holly Blackness Has a New Book! See the Cover (and Read an Excerpt) Now!". EW.com . Retrieved 2021-01-04 .
3. ^ "The Cruel Prince (B&Due north Exclusive Edition) (Folk of the Air Serial #1)". Barnes & Noble . Retrieved 2021-01-26 .
4. ^ "The Lost Sisters - Holly Black". blackholly.com . Retrieved 2019-03-18 .
5. ^ "The Wicked King - Holly Black". blackholly.com . Retrieved 2019-01-17 .
6. ^ "The Queen of Nothing - Holly Blackness". blackholly.com . Retrieved 2019-08-05 .
7. ^ "How the Rex of Elfhame Learned To Hate Stories - Holly Blackness". blackholly.com . Retrieved 2020-08-06 .
8. ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (June 28, 2017). "Universal, Mike De Luca Win 'Spiderwick Chronicles' Holly Black Novel 'The Cruel Prince'". Deadline . Retrieved October ix, 2017.

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