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The Prisoner's Throne: A Novel of Elfhame

Holly Black

3.88 AVERAGE

cranberry333's review against another edition

3.0

hopeful tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

gr33ni_b33ni's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark hopeful 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

missamiew's review against another edition

3.0

tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

tanya_saturn's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

willow_2's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

im_silviaing's review against another edition

4.0

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I am giving it 4 stars mainly because it gave me Jurdan and Oak’s POV was more bearable, but mainly for Jurdan.

charsuss7's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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kale_ramen's review against another edition

5.0

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Not to reiterate what everyone else has already said, but the Jude&Cardan moments absolutely made this book. I liked it much better than the first one, it kept me hooked the whole way through (even if I didn't really care much for the romance itself lmao) and I love that we got to see more political power struggle and characters playing 4d chess because that was my favorite part of the cruel prince books. Literally couldn't put this book down, and it's definitely increased the re-readability of the duology for me. :)

lena_books_3's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

jimjamreads's review against another edition

3.75

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I liked The Prisoner’s Throne a lot better than The Stolen Heir, but I still wasn’t really that interested until almost halfway through, when we finally get back to the roots of the original Cruel Prince series - The political intrigue, overall scheming and trickery (and also Jude and Cardan).