I am always going to have a soft spot for our King of Elfhame

“ʏᴏᴜ ᴅᴏɴ’ᴛ ᴛʜɪɴᴋ ᴍᴏɴꜱᴛᴇʀ ɢɪʀʟꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ᴡɪᴄᴋᴇᴅ ʙᴏʏꜱ ᴅᴇꜱᴇʀᴠᴇ ʟᴏᴠᴇ?”


⤑ Ugh if only the trilogy were dual POV

Cardan was never a likable character to me, but this makes him loveable. Holly provides insight into his childhood, his relationship with his cruel brother, and his marriage. His heart is not made of glass or stone. He is simply a man learning, growing, and making mistakes.

Rovina created illustrations that are absolutely gorgeous
adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted reflective 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

The perfect supplemental collection of stories to the Elfhame series! The depth this added to Carden was unbelievable! The artwork throughout was stunning!
adventurous lighthearted reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

3.5
adventurous fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was beautiful! Going to have to do a Folk of the Air reread after this.

I really enjoyed this sweet short story from the series and loved reading from Cardan’s perspective (I liked him more than Jude in the series).