The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

 BOOK ONE

This is my second time reading The Cruel Prince by Holly Black, and again I ask myself, why haven't I continued with his series.
More than likely with every series I start and never finish, I'm just worried that the following books won't be as great as the one before, and I also don't want it to end. Book hangovers aren't great.

Whatever my excuses are, I should just finish this series and also get into this review.

As you might have gathered, I really enjoyed The Cruel Prince. I knew what was going to happen, but I was still on the edge of my seat. I was so engrossed in the book that I read it in one day, which hasn't happened is such a long time.

Jude is an amazing and interesting character. It's great to see character development done right throughout the book. I haven't read a Young Adult book in a while that had this. 

However, I did find the very start of the book odd. Now, this is right at the beginning so I don't think it's a spoiler as such, but you are warned.
In my opinion, I felt that the murder of Jude and her twin sisters parents right in front of them, it just didn't seem like a big deal to them. Yeah, they said they were sad, but it's like they got over it so quickly and accepted basically the "murderer" as their father? Their half-sister was the only one that actually felt like she cared.
Now, maybe in the following books more is done and felt with this plot, but at the moment it was just odd.

Like a majority of Young Adult books there is always romance. Now, there is romance in this as expected, but it didn't feel like it took away from what I really enjoyed about The Cruel Prince; and that was the politics of the Fae. There is just something about political intrigue that I love to read, especially (mainly) in the fantasy genre.

Unlike last time, hopefully I will continue with this series.
I'm not holding my breath, it's such a bad habit of mine that I don't finish series.

Until next time, happy reading