The Cruel Prince is the first book in The Folk of the Air trilogy by Ghazel Ayham.
The start of a thrilling new fantasy series from bestselling author Holly Black about Jude Duarte, seventeen and mortal, who finds herself caught tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for ten years.
Blurb
Of course I want to be like them. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.
And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.
Description
Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.
To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences.
In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering her own capacity for bloodshed. But as civil war threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.
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| Main series | Companion books | ||||
| The Cruel Prince | The Lost Sisters | ||||
| The Wicked King | How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories | ||||
| The Queen of Nothing | |||||
| The Stolen Heir duology | Extra content | ||||
| The Stolen Heir | A Visit to the Impossible Lands | ||||
| The Prisoner's Throne | |||||
| Adaptations | |||||
| Enemies & Lovers: The Crown of Elfhame | |||||