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The Wicked King Book Review

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The Folk of the Air Book 2 YOU CANNOT END IT LIKE THIS! I REFUSE!  Oh my god! I am having a mental breakdown. Someone sedate me until the next book comes out. You realise, Black, that I will need tons of books to forget how I need to read your next instalment.  Oh man!  I don't even know where to start. There are so many events and I don't want to spoil them - they are all important. But I will say, the title fits - he is bloody wicked indeed, till the end. He totally blinded me. I did not even focus on him, but only on Jude and who was the traitor. I was not that shocked when we discover who the traitor was - he was acting a little weird.  Madoc was predictable but using that foolish pawn at the end to take the army was brilliant. THAT FOOL! As if I did not have more reason not to like her. She needs to get her heart majorly broken to be able to think for herself. Jude, just made me respect her more. She is not good nor she's bad but she doesn't give ...

Cruel Prince Book Review

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The Folk of Air Book 1  "If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse." - Jude   Holy acorn!  I swallowed this book whole in one day.  I just open it while I was in a waiting room and then swallowed three chapters. The moment I went home, I hit the bed and started to read while making a hot cappuccino. I COULD NOT LET IT DOWN! I was stressed for Jude. I just wanted to tell her to go to the mortal world and live there. But our girl is power hungry and she wants to have a place in a world where they don't respect her and where she came to live because she had no choice. The more I continued to read, the more I saw Arya Stark in Jude, but more power-hungry than revengeful. It's like if Arya came to stay with Cersei after her training at the Faceless men. Taryn reminded me of Sansa Stark at the beginning where she wanted to be married to fit in, to have a place. I must say I am not a fan of Taryn. I will read the novella on her story in a fe...