Whatever a reader is looking for-heart-in-throat action, deadly romance, double-crossing, moral complexity-this is one heck of a ride.'- Booklist, starred review * 'Jude, who struggles with a world she both loves and hates and would rather be powerful and safe than good, is a compelling narrator. * 'Another fantastic, deeply engaging, and all-consuming work from Black that belongs on all YA shelves.'- School Library Journal, starred review

* 'pellbinding.Breathtaking set pieces, fully developed supporting characters, and a beguiling, tough-as-nails heroine enhance an intricate, intelligent plot that crescendos to a jaw-dropping third-act twist.'- Publishers Weekly, starred review Holly is the Faerie Queen.'- Victoria Aveyard, #1 bestselling author of The Red Queen series This delicious story will seduce you and leave you desperate for just one more page.'- Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom And Jude! She is a heroine to love-brave but pragmatic, utterly human. Black's world is intoxicating, imbued with a relentless sense of peril that kept me riveted through every chapter of Jude's journey. 'Lush, dangerous, a dark jewel of a book. 'Black is a master at world-building, conveying integral details without that information ever seeming tedious or encyclopedic, whether you're well versed in faerie or a newcomer to the genre.the experience of reading a novel like this is something like being surrounded by magic.'- The New York Times Book Review But as civil war 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.Ī New York Times Bestseller An IndieBound Bestseller A Boston Globe Best Book of 2018 An ALA 2019 Children's Notables List Pick In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering her own capacity for bloodshed. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him-and face the consequences. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality.

Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe. They will live forever.Īnd Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. By #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black, the first book in a stunning new series about a mortal girl who finds herself caught in a web of royal faerie intrigue.

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