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The Wicked King, by Holly Black

47 reviews

joensign's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Injury/injury detail, Alcohol, and Kidnapping

Minor: Animal death and Vomit

vaguely_pink's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Injury/injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol, Murder, War, Violence, Body horror, Confinement, Bullying, Alcoholism, and Death of parent

Minor: Abandonment, Animal death, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Vomit, Torture, Classism, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, and Kidnapping

kynthebookworm's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This was an outright masterpiece honestly. I loved it, the twists and turns, the way the plot completely surprises you, the writing, and the characters were all absolutely fantastic to read. A wonderful sequel!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Addiction, and Drug use

raypaws's review

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/injury detail, Death, Blood, Alcohol, and Murder

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Vomit and Sexual content

maple_dove's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual content

Minor: Infidelity, Vomit, Addiction, and Death of parent

Parental neglect (moderate)

lifeonasofa's review

adventurous hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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“For a moment,” he says, “I wondered if it wasn’t you shooting bolts at me.”
I make a face at him. “And what made you decide it wasn’t?”
He grins up at me. “They missed.” - Holly Black 🏹

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 4.5 Stars

Thank you hotkeysya for sending this copy of The Wicked King as part of the second tandemcollectiveuk The Folk of the Air Readalong! 💝 

An applause for Holly Black for making the sequel better than the first! I’m always weary of the second book in a trilogy, they can often be slow but THE DRAMA in this book! 👏🏻 

Jude really grew as a character in this, I love her even more! I love that we got to understand the way she thinks before she carried out her plans. I’m glad we got to see more of the spies - still my favs. The scenes between her and Cardan were SO much better too. 💕

Cardan really came into his own by the end of the book and I’m LIVING for it! I was waiting for him to really take his king role seriously. Don’t get me wrong - I’m fuming with that ending but he’s smart right? I feel he has a long term plan. 👀

Loved how we had danger and deceit coming from all sides! I still do not trust ANYONE in this whole damn book - Taryn and Madoc being the worst imo. But it just made it all the more exciting, I had no idea what twists were coming! BOOK 3 READALONG END OF NOV!🤯

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Content Warnings

Minor: Confinement, Blood, War, Death, Bullying, Death of parent, and Alcohol

embla_v's review

adventurous dark emotional tense

4.5

En oerhört spännande bok med många vändningar. När man läser Holly Black är det bäst att vara på tårna. 

Jude har fått Cardan på tronen och bundit honom till sig i ett år och en dag. Men känslor, strategier och förrädare ska in i leken och Judes plan kanske inte är så enkel som den verkar. 

Väldigt spännande fortsättning på The cruel prince och definitivt läsvärd. Rekommenderar till alla som gillar fantasy, spänning och starka FMC. En bok full av intriger, strategier, planer och plötsliga vändningar. Rekommenderar boken starkt. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Injury/injury detail, Kidnapping, Torture, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, and Vomit

lizzye33's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Confinement, and Violence

Moderate: War, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Drug use, Classism, Alcohol, Vomit, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Outing, and Murder

katiareadz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I can't even describe how mad I am at the ending...I feel SO betrayed but I loved it regardless. Most of all though,I love jude<3. Not just love,ADORE JUDE. She is so amazingly written and so realistic as well???Cardan has nothing on her,she carried THE WHOLE BOOK. She is honestly the definition of a strong female protagonist and I love that for her. Maybe I'm a little biased because I relate to her to a whole other level...but at the end of the day she still ate and left no crumbs. The writing is excellent,possibly magic itself. The settings are so vividly described,the characters very complex AND multidimensional. So in conclusion..THE BOOK IS PERFECT,even better than the first in the series which is a rare phenomenon.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Torture, Murder, Emotional abuse, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Vomit

paulina_laukova's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Kidnapping, Violence, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Vomit, Confinement, Alcohol, and Torture

Minor: War