How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air series): The perfect gift for fans of Fantasy Fiction

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Black's world is intoxicating, imbued with a relentless sense of peril that kept me riveted through every chapter of Jude's journey. How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories is a breath of fresh air—the fairy tale atmosphere, the razor-sharp wit, the allure of the fey. They indulged all their worst impulses, revenged themselves for the least offence, and took every last thing they wanted. He forms such an imperative part in what makes Elfhame and so by being inside his mind you are also inside Elfhame and I love that. Although not pivotal to the main plot and story it gives it an edge that it didn’t have before reading this.

Some of the scenes from his youth were harrowing yet some of the later scenes, with Jude’s family, left me grinning like mad. When i wrote my review for The Cruel Prince i said and i quote myself: He isn’t cruel because he wants to be.How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories is an illustrated novella following Cardan Greenbriar, during many different stages in his life, while we slowly see all the different things that shaped him cruelly. Nicasia and Locke have much wanted character development in this book, too, and I am literally on my knees begging for Holly to just give us the trilogy in Cardan’s complete point of view. 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. There short story's that add some great info to the folk of air trilogy, especially on cardans side as it’s all about him.

Because, to me, if you’re just writing the story again but from a different characters perspective then you probably should have just included their point of view in the original story rather than just rewriting the story again. This illustrated novella is not one story, but multiple—an interconnected collection of Cardan’s memories before, during, and after the events of the trilogy, in both the mortal realm and the land of faerie. I suppose I would have plummeted out of the air,” Jude tells him with troubling equanimity, her expression saying, Horrible risks are entirely normal to me .Another fantastic, deeply engaging, and all-consuming work from Black that belongs on all YA shelves. From the perfect color palette, to the most perfect details, she executes the vibe of Cardan and his story in a way that I don’t think another artist could.