How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories - Holly Black & Rovina Cai

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

By Holly Black & Rovina Cai

  • Release Date: 2020-11-24
  • Genre: Fairy Tales, Myths & Fables for Young Adults
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 666 Ratings)
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Description

Return to the captivating world of Elfhame with this illustrated addition to the New York Times bestselling Folk of Air trilogy that began with The Cruel Prince, from award-winning author Holly Black.
Once upon a time, there was a boy with a wicked tongue.

Before Cardan was a cruel prince or a wicked king, he was a faerie child with a heart of stone. #1 New York Times bestselling author, Holly Black reveals a deeper look into the dramatic life of Elfhame's enigmatic high king, Cardan. This tale includes delicious details of life before The Cruel Prince, an adventure beyond The Queen of Nothing, and familiar moments from The Folk of the Air trilogy, told wholly from Cardan's perspective.

This new installment in the Folk of the Air series is a return to the heart-racing romance, danger, humor, and drama that enchanted readers everywhere. Each chapter is paired with lavish and luminous full-color art, making this the perfect collector's item to be enjoyed by both new audiences and old.  

Reviews

  • 100% rec

    5
    By ak1raxx
    this was such a fun short readdd

  • Perfect

    5
    By MMmm………..
    Beautiful. His pov is so necessary I wish there was more.

  • Loved it

    5
    By antrice117
    It was nice to see Prince Cardan’s perspective and learn more about him. I enjoyed the way the story was told spanning across childhood to adulthood. I still can’t get enough of the main characters! I am hoping their is more to come!

  • A fun continuation

    5
    By FrolicFae
    I liked the perspective this book gives into Cardan’s life, his point of view and a on-site into what their life’s like after the end of Queen of Nothing. I just want more.

  • Very beautiful but now what I was expectinf

    4
    By Iris Northlord
    I couldn’t say what I was expecting but it wasn’t this and though I still enjoyed it immensely there was still a twinge of disappointment on the back of my tongue. It was a lot of small pieces of Cardans story that make him a very well developed whole being.

  • The King of Elfhame

    4
    By ronniee_b
    Cardan is my favorite character in the whole series. Just wish it was a little longer...

  • Cute

    4
    By The Sexy Giraffe Wrangler
    Ugh, I loved this so much especially the cuddling between Cardan and Jude. I positively swooned and fell over with how FREAKING ADORABLE THAT WAS. I really wished there was more though. It was super short and I read the whole thing in less than an hour. It was satisfying regardless but I’m so upset that how it seems set it stone that Jude is mortal. I don’t want her to die before Cardan. Or get old. Makes me sad😢

  • Good I guess, not really what I was expecting though.

    4
    By stella 😽
    Good but definitely very different from the series. I just kinda got my hopes up considering i loved the cruel prince series and I was extremely excited for this book but I was a little disappointed because it was kind of boring certain times I just which she added more from his perspective when Cardan started falling for Jude.

  • Everything Midnight Sun wasn’t!

    5
    By D. Jimenez6
    I was so excited when Holly Black first mentioned this addition to the Folk of the Air series way back when. At first I thought it would be just a point of view from Carden on either the future as Jude as his Queen. Or a point of view from Carden retelling the story we already know with his special side of things. What I was NOT expecting was this beautiful, extravagant, alluring piece of work. Nor was I expecting the AMAZING illustrations from Rovina Cai! Throughout the book we get a bit of everything. Which includes things about Carden’s past, his feelings during the trilogy (and a bit about what made him do things during it), as well as a glimpse into their “present” in the series. Holly Black does not mess up the interchanging of these three sides in anyway in my opinion. She does it so beautifully and seamlessly that you can hardly notice. With the gorgeous illustrations as a cherry on top to this book, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories is everything Midnight Sun wasn’t for me.

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