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Two Folk of the Air Stories

The Wicked King by Holly Black

The Lost Sisters by Holly Black

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My first introduction to Holly Black was The Coldest Girl in Cold Town, and I have definitely enjoyed all her novels I’ve read since then.  Considering how amazing her vampire novel was, I’m surprised she has stuck with faerie novels since then but they, too, are amazing. I loved the first novel in this trilogy, The Cruel Prince, and I can’t wait for November when the final novel comes out. About five months after placing Cardan on the throne, Jude is burning the candle at both ends, and worried about what balls she might drop.  She trusts very few people […]

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9/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:70 |

Fairies, A Forest, and A Knight

The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

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Well there was just too much happening in this standalone. I loved the idea of a world where fairies stand alongside humans and magic is real. It was also interesting to hear how our history and music stayed the same so you get some funny pop-culture comments here and there. That said, Hazel and Ben were exhausting. Both of them obsessed with being in love and I just wanted to say good grief none of this is going to matter when you are older. I feel like an old curmudgeon. I liked the idea of Hazel being a knight, but […]

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7/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:163 |

“That’s what comes of hungering for something; you forget to check if it’s rotten before you gobble it down”

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

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When Jude and Taryn were children, a strange man showed up at their home, claimed their mother was his wife and their older sister Vivienne was his daughter. For the betrayal, the man murdered their parents and took them away to his home: the High Court of Faerie. As daughters of the High King’s top general, Jude and Taryn have been raised very well as part of the gentry, despite their mortal status. This means that while they wear the best clothes, enjoy an education, and are trained by the General, they are reviled by their classmates of the fae. […]

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6/3/2019 |

Be careful what you wish for

The Wicked King by Holly Black

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Spoiler warning! You really don’t want to start this book without having read the first book in the series, The Cruel Prince. It’s also pretty much impossible for me to review this book without spoiling parts of the first book, so if you’re not caught up, skip this review until you are. Seriously, even the book summary from Goodreads is pretty revealing. Look away now or suffer the consequences. You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring. The first lesson is to make yourself strong. After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude […]

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5/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:22 |

“Sparing another person is a tricky thing. It’s easy to think you’re succeeding when you’re failing spectacularly.”

The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

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I like Holly Black’s writing. She she sets books in, basically, our real world with fantasy tweaks, and the stories are unapologetically confident in defense of myth and magic. The Darkest Part of the Forest is set in and around an ordinary town called Fairfold with a supernatural attraction: there is a faerie boy trapped and hibernating in an unbreakable glass coffin in the forest, symbolic of the town’s close proximity to the Fae people. Generations of residents have built lore around the boy and featured him as a player in personal fantasies and dreams, while tourists come to Fairfold […]

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2/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

Playing catch up on my faves

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

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This year kind of got away from me. I didn’t realize that my last review was all the way back in April. That feels like decades ago honestly. I was noticing that almost all of my favorite books from this year got read after that, so I wanted to catch up a bit with reviews for some of my favorite 2018 books. Despite the lack of reviews, I’ve had an extraordinarily good reading year. Soooo many books and a good chunk of them were 4 stars or higher. First up is The Cruel Prince by Holly Black. I read The […]

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12/25/2018 's CBR10 Review No:44 |

A Sparkling World of Intrigue

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

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I’ve read a few of Holly Black’s other novels dealing with faeries which were alright but not bad, and hearing good things about The Cruel Prince, I figured it was worth a read! And it was quite an entertaining YA novel, though I can’t say that I loved it. The Cruel Prince begins with three young sisters living in the human world: two twins named Taryn and Jude, and an older sister who is actually half-human-half-fae named Vivienne (or Vivi). The three live with their mother and father, until the father of Vivi returns to bring his daughter back to […]

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9/12/2018 's CBR10 Review No:46 |

It’s a bloody thing, being a vampire

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

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Coldtown was dangerous, Tana knew. A glamorous cage, a prison for the damned and anyone who wanted to party with them. So imagine you wake up from a party to find you are seemingly the only one alive in the house – all your friends are dead, drained of blood by vampires.  This is how this book begins – with Tana freaking out over the discovery, finally finding her ex-boyfriend Aiden still alive but infected, along with a mysterious stranger.  They manage to escape, just barely, and Tana is horrified to discover she has been bitten as well.  In the […]

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7/30/2018 's CBR10 Review No:22 |


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