maddiebooks 's review for:

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black

5.0

emotional lighthearted tense medium-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

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THIS MAN CANNOT GO ONE SECOND WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT JUDE😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 wow this was PERFECT. imo no one can have an opinion on cardan until they read this like you literally have to read this to fully understand him!!! this was so very fun to read i enjoyed it SOOOOO MUCH. starting with post qon judecardan going to the mortal world MY BABIES. and then going through cardan’s childhood to jude in the river. amazing timeline there. i LOVE LOVE LOVED seeing how cardan became friends with nicasia and how nicasia got with locke and how cardan reacted LIKE EVERYTHING THAT I WAS MISSING IN THE CRUEL PRINCE WAS HERE. nicasia telling cardan one of the mortal girls is locke’s lover AND CARDAN JUST IMMEDIATELY THINKING ABOUT JUDE. like oh my god the way cardan started to think about jude then thought of her more and more and more when he started saying her name instead of mortal girl WHEN HE WAS THINKING ABOUT HER HAIR AND HER EARS HE WAS DOWN SOOOOOOOO BAD. HE WANTED HER SO BAD. AND WHEN HE DIDNT KNOW WHY SHE HATED HIM AND UGH HE WAS SO IN LOVE. I AM SO GLAD WE GOT THE BEGINNING OF CARDAN FALLING IN LOVE IN HIS POV😭😭😭😭😭😭 AND THEN THE POST QON PARTS IN THE MORTAL WORLD. CARDAN GETTING BUBBLE TEA AND WATCHING KNIVES OUT LIKE HOW IS THIS REAL😭😭😭😭😭 mortal world post qon cardan is actually everything to me HE’S SO POOKIE. and aslog and those stories. gonna be so honest my media literacy SUCKS and i did not truly understand what the purpose of them was until they said that faeries cant lie so all their stories are true and i was like Wait. that is right. LIKE WAIT. like i knew in the first 2 stories the boy was supposed to be like cardan but then in cardan’s story i was like wait the girl is jude😭😭😭😭😭😭 holly black the genius you are. i love how he can be smart and tricky at times but ultimately he needs jude in some way or another to get himself out of these situations😭😭😭😭😭 they are so perfect together. they will be together forever. incredible perfect cardan novella i will miss his pov SO MUCH😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 193747173949/5 as always!!!