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For reasons that I think are perfectly reasonable, this is not Holly Black's greatest work, and I knew that going in, but I just really wasn't ready to leave behind the world I had fallen in love with in "The Folk of the Air" series and so I took a chance anyways.
This definitely sheds a beautiful light on what YA from the early 2000s was like and it really gives off an air of trying too hard to be something it's not. The fae world is always cooler than the human world and I suppose that Black did a really clean job of juxtaposing those worlds in this series.
I don't love the very obvious age gap between a minor and a clearly grown adult fae. That hasn't aged well in my opinion.
But I do love how weird and creepy and not pretty it all is. Holly Black is so good at writing beautiful and creepy together in the perfect way.
Perhaps I'll keep going, perhaps I won't. Perhaps I'll just read The Cruel Prince over again.
This definitely sheds a beautiful light on what YA from the early 2000s was like and it really gives off an air of trying too hard to be something it's not. The fae world is always cooler than the human world and I suppose that Black did a really clean job of juxtaposing those worlds in this series.
I don't love the very obvious age gap between a minor and a clearly grown adult fae. That hasn't aged well in my opinion.
But I do love how weird and creepy and not pretty it all is. Holly Black is so good at writing beautiful and creepy together in the perfect way.
Perhaps I'll keep going, perhaps I won't. Perhaps I'll just read The Cruel Prince over again.