![]() ![]() ![]() If this was a stand alone novel, it just wouldn’t cut it for world building or description. Nothing is described with the delicious detail that I came to love and abhor (in the best way) with Holly Black’s first books in the series … The Queen of Nothing really just stands upon the laurels of world development of book one and two without furthering the plot or journey. Queen of Nothing doesn’t add anything new to the story and further it frustratingly eliminates the high stakes, climatic ending of book two within a couple pages. Very quickly estranged twin sister Taryn comes knocking on the door desperate for Jude’s help – and she is promptly whisked back into Elfhame … finding her stepfather Madoc leading an army to kill King Cardan and steal the throne.Įvery novel in a series, in my opinion, needs to build upon the stories that came before them and add to the adventure. ![]() ![]() The Queen of Nothing picks up right after the climatic ending of The Wicked King with Jude back in the human world scraping together to survive with her sister Vivian and brother Oak. If I am to rate The Cruel Prince series as a whole it comes out with 4.08 shining stars … but, for me, The Queen of Nothing is the weaker of the series and doesn’t have a lot of legs to stand on. It can be so challenging to disentangle the final book in a series and rate it alone on its own merits away from the books that came before. ![]()
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