A review by bibliorama
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

3.0

More like 2.5 stars. The ending was the only thing that made this book worth reading and made the idea of me reading the sequel possible. I think the writing style just wasn't my cup of tea. The first person narration got kind of grating and was repetitive with a lot of lines. I also felt like a lot of the important scenes didn't have any time spent with them and was rushed through (except for the ending, that scene was well done and makes me hopeful for the second book).

Tangent: I'm not sure what this says about me, but with how I've seen reviews and listened to what people said about this book I expected it to go further and for Jude to go further than what she did. Like she kept saying how she needed to be worse than the faeries to survive but everytime a situation presented itself for her to do that she resisted. I don't think that's bad character dev, I just figured that she would go for it. But, that was an assumption on my part from what I had read in reviews and not the fault of the book.