A review by samanthanleroy
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

3.0

A very solid 3 stars! This book defied my expectations. Based on what I knew about it from Booktok, I thought this was going to be a basic faerie romance (kind of like ACOTAR), but it's actually so much more. I was surprised and pleased to see not so much romance and the characters were serviceable. I feel the plot jumps a lot and at times it feels like Holly Black was just making it up as she went along. In addition to that, some of Jude's choices literally had no consequences (unless the ****** of ******** turns out to be super important in the next book, that scene did little to nothing for me) and that is a wee bit annoying. It's not the best-written fantasy ever, but it's fun and entertaining and I genuinely did not know where it was going to go next. Also, Cardan's tail DISGUSTS me.