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The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

200 reviews

sop17hie's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Slavery, Physical abuse, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Violence, and Murder

Minor: War

bloomandgloom's review

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

While the majority of this book was quite boring, I still enjoyed it. There was a pretty good amount of world building. There are also so many times you wil roll your eyes at what the MC does. The romance portions didn't land for me since lI'm not the target audience and made me consider not finishing the book. This is a decent fairy story meant for young adults (mostly teen girls), so temper your expectations if you aren't in that category. There is a lot that adults (with even the smallest amounts of romantic experience) will find annoying but for some reason books are still trying to teach young girls that if a boy is mean to you it's fine because he secretly likes you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Physical abuse, Bullying, Murder, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Slavery, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Sexual harassment

bootsmom3's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Alcohol, Death, Toxic relationship, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Grief, and Infidelity

malinxzoe's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Physical abuse, Murder, Kidnapping, and Bullying

Moderate: Slavery, Drug abuse, and Alcohol

thebookaddict's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring lighthearted mysterious 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

4.5

🇳🇱: in het begin had ik moeite met het inkomen Het boek is niet super vlot geschreven. Het verhaallijn daarentegen is wel super goed. Ik vond de karakter echt top en ben verliefd geworden op Cardan! Het plot was ook prima te volgen en ik zag hem niet aankomen! Een top boek en ik kan niet wachten op de andere delen

🇬🇧: it was a bit hard to come in. The book isn't really fast paced. The storyline is really really good. I liked the characters and I fell in love with Cardan. The plot was also really good, i didn't see it coming! Also we love a strong female character! A great book and I am excited for the other parts

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Death, Death of parent, Grief, and War

raineydayreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.75

ngl i spent the first half of this fighting for my life trying to remember who was who. why are there so many people to remember. who are you people

that being said, this slapped. we love good characters and we love hating good characters, and you get a great chance to do both with this. this ones full of politics and drama that is very like the real world but with a bit more bloodshed

i do, however, now have to fork out on the sequel, because no way in hell am i leaving that there

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Murder

20sidedbi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Violence, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicide, and Slavery

Minor: Pregnancy

avie_j's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Murder, Death of parent, Violence, Blood, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Suicide, and Death

Moderate: Alcoholism and Addiction

annierrra's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death of parent, Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Physical abuse and Emotional abuse

Minor: Suicide

starryeyedreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Non-spoiler bit: The book is great. If you like Holly Black's other fae books then you will like this. If you haven't read anything by Holly Black, I would recommend starting with the Modern Faerie Tales series, because it chronologically happens before this series does.

The spoiler bit:

Spoiler

expect betrayal, trying to figure out what's going to happen next only to be wrong cause the book sets up for multiple unexpected plot twists. Enemies to lovers trope is present. Some of the characters are just down right evil, but well written. In terms of diversity, there isn't much in the way of POC representation, but there is LGBT+ rep, and the folk are very diverse and you can definitely find yourself in the characters regardless of their appearance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Torture, and Death of parent

Moderate: Body shaming, Drug abuse, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Minor: Incest