Book profile
The Cruel Prince
- Subgenre
- romantasy
- Edition year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.9 · 1720 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
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Mortal Jude, orphaned and stolen to the treacherous Faerie Court as a child, must navigate a web of royal court intrigue and defy the cruel Prince Cardan to carve out a place among the fey who disdain her humanity. As she embraces her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed, she is caught in a looming betrayal that threatens to engulf the Faerie Courts in violence, forcing her to sacrifice her own safety to protect her sisters and the realm itself.
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Book 1 of 7 in The Folk of the Air — see the full reading order →
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- Betrayal: “But as betrayal threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.” source
- Court Intrigue: “As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for tricker and bloodshed.” source
- High Fantasy: “Courts of Faerie” source
- Morally Gray: “she discovers her own capacity for tricker and bloodshed.” source
- Coming of Age: “as one girl learns the meaning of true power when she finds herself caught in a web of royal faerie intrigue.” source
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Content note death of parent
Open Library · Work-level source
JUDE WAS SEVEN WHEN HER PARENTS were murderedRead the original source
Content note kidnapping
Open Library · Work-level source
she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of FaerieRead the original source
