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The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

288 reviews

avocadosocks's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

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indigo_fox's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This installment in the trilogy was my favorite. There was so much action, drama, and schemes. The romance was really cute too. There were times when Jude drove me insane and I just wanted to slap some sense into her and I didn't like her as a character as much in this one, it felt like certain points in her personality had become watered-down. I found myself liking Cardon more though, and it was great see both of them again, regardless of how they made me feel in this book. The story itself was fun and enjoyable, there were times when I couldn't possibly put the book down. I'm a bit sad its over.

I can't believe I reached the end of the trilogy. It really has been enjoyable and I'm very glad I didn't end up DNF'ing the first book.

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molliford's review against another edition

3.25

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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kaylynngros's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

tore my way through this book in only 4 hours. it’s so easy to admit that i adore this series, & i absolutely want more. actually, i NEED more of jude and cardan. 5 stars for this book & 5 stars for the entire series

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kathi_90's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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kawaii_rose's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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marianna_s's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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booklov3r5019's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

YET ANOTHER ABSOLUTE BANGER OF A BOOK COURTESY OF HOLLY BLACK.

C A R D A N G R E E N B R I A R AT IT AGAIN WITH HIS FREAKING HOTNESS. Jude at it again with her continual bad***ery (I'm just an innocent girl I can't bring myself to type it 💀).

Only good thing Taryn ever did: KILL LOCKE. Oh my gosh that was just so beautiful of her I can't even describe it. And then Cardan revealing that he knew that it was Jude the moment she walked into his throne room or whatever? I FREAKING SCREAMED. OF COURSE HE CAN THIS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL FREAKING FAERIE. I LOVE YOU. Anyway. THE LETTERS??????? I HATE HIS MOM FOR THAT. LITERALLY GET OVER YOURSELF LADY. I mean, Jude missed the opportunity to read this: "Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart if you must. Just come home." If I were Jude and Cardan told me that he wrote that to me, I would, like, immediately just start making out with him 💀.

Sorry for those of you that couldn't read that . . . I have more to rant about though.

Anyway, when the Bomb was stitching her back up and told Cardan to leave and he was just like: "This is my room. And that's my wife." I just died. I literally couldn't. And when Jude fell from the rafters or whatever and they were like freaking out because she was "banished" and Cardan said that she wasn't in exile, "She's my wife." or whatever? I also died THEN. Because how could I not?? And then. They had a little bit of sexy time and I was just like FINALLY. Because while I'm not encouraging it . . . it's just nice sometimes you know? And it wasn't crazy explicit. So. AND HIM TURNING INTO A FLIPPING SNAKE AND JUDE SOMEHOW BEING ABLE TO ACCEPT THAT SHE COULDN'T JUST HAVE HIM BE HER SLAVE SO SHE MADE HERSELF CUT OFF HIS HEAD AND THEN HE CAME BACK AND THEY HUGGED WHILE HE WAS BLOODY AND NAKED?? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Literally couple goals, but anyway-

Again. Sorry that was so long. I don't know if anyone will even bother to read my rantings, but I guess I just needed to get that out. I think this is my favorite of the books because Jude and Cardan's relationship just takes a great turn, and I love that for them. A little bit of sexy content in chapter 27, but it's like barely even anything, so it's fine. No important dialogue, just a bit of giddiness from the reader lol.

ALSO ALSO ALSO. I FORGOT:

When Jude gets kidnapped again and then later figures out that WHEN Madoc came and kidnapped her, Cardan was panicking and he managed to kill some of the people using his Kingly Earth Powers™ and she also later figures out that Cardan WENT TO THE MORTAL WORLD AND FOUND HEATHER, OAK, AND VIVIENNE AND MADE THEM HELP HIM FIND JUDE??? AHHHHHHHH LITERALLY AMAZING.

But anyway. What we have learned today is that Jude and Cardan's relationship is to die for, their fan art is to die for (didn't talk abou this until now but it's fine), and Cardan is one intense Hottie™. GOOD DAY

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tiltawhirl09's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This book was a perfect resolve to the Jude and Cardan's story. There were some areas where the pacing was a bit slow, but overall the story was engaging and compelling. One of my favorite aspects of this story was the world-building. The character development was very strong and the romance was great! I would definitely read this series again and is one of my favorites to date!

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beckyyreadss's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I wanted to read this book because I enjoyed the series so far and wanted to see how it would end. This series has been enjoyable so far, but I was expecting more from the final book in this trilogy.

This book is about Jude who we have been following for the past two books. Jude has now been exiled as the mortal Queen of Faerie. She is powerless and left reeling from Cardan’s betrayal. She bides her time determined to reclaim everything he took from her. When an opportunity arrives in the form of her twin sister, Taryn, whose life is in peril. Jude must risk venturing back into the Faerie Court and confront her lingering feelings for Cardan, if she wishes to save her sister. But Elfhame is not as she left it. War is brewing. As Jude slips deep within enemy lines, she becomes ensnared in the conflict’s bloody politics. And when a dormant yet powerful curse is unleashed, panic spreads throughout the land, forcing her to choose between her ambition and her humanity.

I understand the hype around this series, I enjoyed it, and the storyline was strong, minus the ending. The fantasy world was built up as the storyline moved along. I loved the tension between Cardan and Jude and how Cardan knew it was Jude when he saw her and wanted to talk to her and protect her. I love that Oak just wanted to be a kid and Viv just wanted to be happy with her girlfriend like I'm sure no-one wants to be a part of a war. I loved the cameo from Roiben and Kaye and I loved that Kaye was still breaking fae rules.

I know it’s a young adult book, but I still wanted to punch most of these characters. What would they have done without Jude? Like seriously? These people need to think for themselves. Again, this is why children shouldn’t have power at all. Also, Jude’s dad didn’t get the painful ending that I wanted. I wanted him to have a painful death. The ending was rushed, and I wasn’t as stressed from the war panic, I was more concerned about The Roach dying and if he was dead. I just felt like there was no need to turn Carden into a serpent like that was random.

All throughout this series I was just wanting someone to stuck up for Jude as much as she sticks up for herself and it happened within the last chapter, so I was slightly disappointed about that.

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