It's a tale for the past and for the future, and overall a present of the best kind. This entire saga transcends literature barriers and age limits. It's much more than what the book genre it's defined by. Holly Black writes the best and cruelest fairytales and even if I've apparently finally outgrown YA books, I'll never stop loving this world she's created. Just read it as its own story and buckle up.

One advice I feel like I'm allowed to give you guys is this: don't go into this thinking it's TCP or that Oak/Wren are Jude and Cardan 2.0, because you'd only be preparing yourself for disappointment and it might spoil your enjoyment of the novel. Picture me currently howling at the moon, crying my eyeballs out and also throwing up a bit. I'm sorry for being selfish and devouring in a matter of hours the book it took you months of hard work to write, but I swear it wasn't my fault.Įvery time I put it down, it kept calling my name. It is hard to explain the savagery of hope. #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black returns to the opulent world of Elfhame in the first book in a thrilling new duology, following Jude's brother Oak, and the changeling queen, Suren. But if she agrees, it will mean guarding her heart against the boy she once knew and a prince she cannot trust, as well as confronting all the horrors she thought she left behind.

He’s on a mission that will lead him into the north, and he wants Suren’s help. Now seventeen, Oak is charming, beautiful, and manipulative. Suren is saved by none other than Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame, to whom she was once promised in marriage and who she has resented for years. She believes herself forgotten until the storm hag, Bogdana chases her through the night streets. Lonely, and still haunted by the merciless torments she endured in the Court of Teeth, she bides her time by releasing mortals from foolish bargains. Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over her mother, fled to the human world. There, she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. And a quest that may destroy them both.Įight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent.

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