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Hi Dear Readers, Aliens and Creatures, I have a serious problem with this series – *coughs Jude* – I love Cardan, I love the created world, and I PROMISE I WANNNT to love Jude… but GOODNESS, her thought process and choices… smh, a big no no for me. This is my review of ‘The Queen of Nothing’.
▪️BASICS:
Official title: The Queen of Nothing
My title: Sigh, JUDE!
Author: #hollyblack
Fav character: Cardan
Type: Book – Series – Book 3 Folk of the Air
4.5/5
▪️INTRO:
All’s well, that ends well. BUTTTT
What a tiresome girl. 😩😔 If nothing else, I am convinced that a 17/18yro should not be HIGH ANYTHING of anywhere. They lack the sense.
▪️REVIEW:
I am ever so disappointed when it seems like characters de-evolve. When it appears that as they get older, they get stupider, and if the unfortunate tale is written in 1st person, we are stuck in their inept heads 🤦🏻♀️. Enters tiresome Jude of the very ambitious, exiled and murderous foster father.
The spirals continue even after Jude has been cleverly exiled from Faerie by the High King sexiness, and her despair in ever returning grows. She finds odd jobs to keep her busy and sane until she is presented a chance to waltz right back in to Faerie by her twin. (Who honestly… is so rejected in these books, you just have to feel sorry for her. Her passive nature gets her nowhere).
Jude is folded back into the arms Faerie, but before long she is once again swept up in the madness, intrigue and her never ending poor choices. She will be forced to face and fight her father, her siblings and her love and in this, decide what victory really means. What holding on to power means. What love means.
Again, the world is solid, the writing is compelling and fluid, the characters are bright and vibrant, Cardan is sexy af, and the intrigue has grown — 🤦♀️ if only we could have thrown parts of Jude away. 🤣
▪️CONCLUSION:
🚨SPOILERISH TERRITORY🚨
☀️REACTIONS AS I READ☀️
At page 117/275 I am begging Ms. Black not to make me hate Jude. 🤦🏻♀️ Please.
And just like that, another set of idiotic choices and moves, and I have lost all speckles of respect for this child. 🤦🏻♀️ May Cardan save this book. 😩
😒 I am undone. LESS THINKING ABOUT BEING AN IDIOT AND MORE KISSING!
☀️ JUDE HATE 🤣☀️
As someone who sees things too late because she never thinks things through, bothers to read a book, or considers that she may have to rethink this… I wished someone had gifted her a pair of glasses. You know, so see things.🤦🏻♀️ Maybe the really wise old hag could have done this. As a freely given gift… for my own peace of mind.
As someone seemingly incapable of making a sensible decision given options, she will frustrate tf out of you (if you are anything like me) and you will be tempted to loop off her head. (I kept having high hopes for her). However, as she is a fictional character, you will be forced to remain in her mind as she proves she is the High Queen of Stupidity (yes, there are worse characters out there… but I seriously just had such hope for this girl). 😒😒😒
And you know… oncoming war, fights, scheming with allies and enemies, a greater peak into the court, more intimacy between Jude and Cardan and more. All of it overcast by bad choices.
Again… I am discombobulated at the fact that these VERY VERY OLD OLD BEINGS you have dealt with humans before….are having troubles with this protected 17/18yro girl…
They should be ashamed! Just as I am for having to read thoughts that would never be mine, so that I may finish a story. Smh.
Annnnd, that was it.
On to you – How did you find this book? How do you feel about Jude?
