Title: The Queen of Nothing
Author: Holly Black
Series: The Folk of the Air #3
Genre: Fantasy/Romance/Fae
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date: November 19th, 2019
Edition: Hardcover, 305 pages
Source: Purchased
Synopsis:
He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.
Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to. Jude learned that lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power.
Now, as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is left reeling from Cardan's betrayal. She bides her time, determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Opportunity arrives in the form of her deceptive twin sister, Taryn, whose mortal life is in peril.
Jude must risk venturing back into the treacherous Faerie Court, and confront her lingering feelings for Cardan, if she wishes to save her sister. But Elfhame is not as she left it. War is brewing. As Jude slips deep within enemy lines, she becomes ensnared in the conflict's bloody politics.
And when a terrible curse is unleashed, panic spreads throughout the land, forcing her to choose between her ambition and her humanity.
With the stress of this past year it took me a good while to get into the book, but once I did I could hardly put it down. It doesn't help that I also kept requesting books from NetGalley and putting books on hold from the library.
This series has been one heck of a ride. I read Cruel Prince what feels like forever ago, and while I had both Wicked King and Queen of Nothing on my shelf for a while now, I only read them this year. I think I like not having that wait between the books and reading them back to back.
This book felt far more action packed than the other two books, book one had a espionage vibe, book two was a lot of court intrigue, and this book was super fast paced and full of battles. I was never sure what was going to happen next.
I was never sure about the Carden/Jude romance. I didn't see it in book one at all, and I started to see it in book two. But this book is when things started to make sense, when more about Carden's past was revealed and exposed why he behaved the way he did. It made me empathize with him a lot. He had it rough, and basically all of his family members almost literally left him to the wolves.
I devoured the last 3-4 chapters in just a few hours, and I really want a spin-off of this series. I noticed reading Wicked King that there was an easter-egg for The Darkest Part of the Forest, and there was even more easter eggs in this book, so I would love to read more easter eggy stories about this world.
I also need more stuff set in this world. I couldn't put any of the Folk of the Air books down.
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