reading the folk of the air trilogy in a day | series² 

but the letters from Cardan were SOOOO cute

people: yeah i flew through this book, i read it in like 3 days, like literally so fast i couldn't stop reading! chan: **reads 3 books in under 12 hours**

I enjoyed queen of nothing too! I thought it was pretty consistent. One thing I wished Holly Black had explored more was why Cardan had a copy of Alice in Wonderland. Did I miss that? I wanna know more about his complicated relationship with mortals/the mortal world!

Jude is crazy in love. Plus Cardan stepped up to actually rule instead of be a puppet. They are both facing their fears and flaws and finding out they are a team. I am totally down with the final book.

This series made me feel things I haven't felt in years, but I can never describe to people why I love it so much 😂 I personally loved The Queen of Nothing, but The Wicked King remains my favourite. But this line... "By you, I am forever undone" I am deceased 😂

chandler: hope that doesn’t come up in the third book! me, remembering the tail around the ankle: interesting.

I loved where Queen of Nothing ended up - the last chapter/epilogue was perfection - but I just don’t love how it got there, if that makes sense? I didn’t dislike it, but I was disappointed. I feel like Wicked King was just such an amazing, complicated book and this felt a little more... linear? Things just felt too convenient (problem, immediate solution, problem, immediate solution, etc) and I wanted way more Jude & Cardan time on page where they were talking and bantering. Still loved the series, and I don’t think this was a terrible book by any stretch of the imagination... but after seeing what Holly Black is capable of in the Wicked King this just felt like a step backwards to me. I really do think it suffered just a tad because of the rushed publication.

*spoilers* i would have LOVED to see more of cardan in the human world and everything he was thinking in the epilogue because he seemed to have a real fascination in it and the world that jude came from but it was never really explored

5:25 “get you man who protects you” i’m screaming i looove cardan but girl we scraping the bottom of the barrel huh HAHAHAH

what i didn't like (i still liked the book but _since you asked_ ) - tarryn killing Locke felt kind of out of nowhere and convenient - not enough judecardan (what we got was excellent though but i wanted a lot more) - some things felt a bit spoon fed (it kept repeating cardan's traaagic backstory) - way too rushed, the whole pacing was off. just needed a rewrite and a 100 more pages - i felt like tarryn being pregnant was unnecessary - the reason for jude's exile was kinda dumb i just felt kind of disconnected from the book, i'll probably like it more upon reread

finally got to watch this since i finished queen of nothing! i loved it, even the snake part, because i think how jude handled it really showed how she grew as a character. i read it so fast, i'm going to have to reread later, but it was a solid conclusion to me. the only thing i didn't love was how taryn just kind of became...good?

Why is grimma mog so underrated. (I think it's grimma might be grima) but like... Can we just appreciate how much of a bad a s s she is?? Like. Yes. 😩

Wanting more JudexCardan is also who I am as a person. I really like this series and it was funny, it took me until I got to the last book to realize that the main conflicts of this series have always been Jude vs Madoc and Jude's issues with being vulnerable. Like, especially considering this book, the whole "Jude and Cardan hate wach other" is so obviously a mask for what's actually going one with Jude's emotions. I loved this so much. And oh man, you vlog make so much more sense than mine will. I was good rereading TCP and TWK, but I think the QoN portion of my vlog is mostly just be going " Jude's stressing me out so much right now" every thirty seconds. It's like I was Cardan in a past life. 😂😂😂

I’m so glad you went so in depth with the first two so I didn’t have to re read them LMAO also Tarryn was so annoying in the first two books, BUT I liked that her character stayed true to form in just being consistently shitty lmao

I think the queen of nothing was good but as the final book in the series I kinda wanted to see what happens with side characters such as carden’s mom, nicasia etc. I felt like there was more to see

I’m surprised people had mixed reviews about this last book! Because literally my reaction was the same SAME as yours. Jude has some hard fights. Some serious battles to overcome that are unlike the ones she’s seen in the first two because she was really thrown for a loop at the end of the second book. It’s extremely vulnerable for someone to want to believe in love when you’ve been rejected by your own sister and “father,” she made perfect sense to me. I lived for her bravery to battle, when she did have to battle, she is fearless which is what carried through into this book. Fearless but the ultimate difference is she’s in love and that’s scary and bewildering especially when she was defeated and has to make a come back from nothing. I think people forget that. In the first book she was confident and sure of herself and schemed yes, but she was still very much sure of herself and those around her. In this last one it’s clear she doesn’t know who to trust and her ground is very unsettled. I was a little only disappointed in the fact that Cardan comes back to life and how uneventful it was revealed the reason for her exile, I think that angle with the mom needed a little more, but I was so happy because it gave me everything I loved in the first two books, I was shocked when Cardan turned into that snake and was like oh shit Jude is going to have to kill the snake and rule on her own and I was dying and expecting that and I think I would have been so much happier with that but I’m happy Cardan came back too. Not as happy I would have been to be crushed by him dying but I’m just love that kind of pain though lmfao

I loved the last book/ending and definitely want to immediately reread the whole series bc major hangoverrrr

Personally I absolutely loved the last book. I agree it’s not super high fantasy like Sarah j Maas but I think it was pretty much what I wanted for the ending

I just read this trilogy in 5 days and it was worth waiting for all books to come out to read these books 🥰 I loved The Queen of Nothing idk why people are mad 🧐

Knowing how much Chandler reads and analyses books, and having her validate my favourite author and arguably my current favourite series brings me so much joy right now oh my god

I just finished the series and it was amazing. I am so sad that it is over and that I can never experience like for the first time.

Chandler: If you’ve taken this long to read the cruel prince, I can’t help you. Me: (taken this long to read the cruel prince) I knew there’d be spoilers dang itttttt. *sigghhhh*

I am so glad I read this series, I loved it SO much! I agree with all your thoughts, I love Jude so much and thought that this really showed us more of who Jude is. I was not ready for this to be over. I would have read so much more about Jude and Cardan.

I remember I loved it because even though it doesn't take place over a very long time, it feels like you are watching Cardan and Jude grow up through their relationship and development

I'm still waiting for it to sink in that the Folk of the air series is over..last year I was in a really bad position and just wanted to give up..but then I thought how about I wait one more year because I had to read the last book..and I'm glad I'm still here... this series is really special to me and I don't think any other heroine will ever compare to Jude at least for me...

I completely agree with you! I loved this series it was just quintessential Holly Black, I don't get the hate for QON. Holly Black books are all so amazing, I can't wait to see what she will release next!

I gave tQoN 4 stars instead of 5 only because there was so little of Jude and Cardan and so much of Madoc... like sooooo much Madoc...

I just finished the Cruel Prince and The Lost Sisters yesterday! I really enjoyed it but I hope Cardan shows up more in the next books because I swear he interacted with Jude the least throughout the entire book until the last few chapters. I’ll watch this once I finish the series!

This makes me so happy because I absolutely adored this book and haven’t seen a lot of reviews/videos with reactions like mine/yours. I felt like this just made a lot of sense for this finale! Thanks for a great video 🥺

i’ve just finished the series and i loved it SO MUCH!! the ending made me a bit emotional actually lmaooo but wow i love jude and cardan

I think what would have made this over the top for me would be a little excerpt from Carden when Jude was in Exale I think that would have made it a little longer but...... I would have been 100% ok with it and would have added that WOW factor!

Read Wicked King and Queen of Nothing over the course of two days... literally used every moment of down time throughout the chaos that is Thanksgiving with my family. Couldn't be more pleased with the way the story wrapped up and I agree on the fact that additional plotlines wouldn't have worked for this series and that tying up loose ends was the correct route for Holly Black. I enjoyed the callback to Cardin's prophecy and thought it was cohesive to the way in which the prologues were consistently relevant throughout the trilogy. Overall, I'm pleased and I stan Cardin and Jude with every ounce of my being!!!!!

Loved Queen of Nothing! Definitely one of my favorite trilogies too. I can't wait to see what Holly writes next in this world.

4:15 - girl that PHILOSOPHY THOUGH. I wasn’t even thinking about that when I read it! I’ve definitely had that mindset lately about being a part of the booktube community as well.

Omg you literally said pretty much EVERYTHING I was thinking in the first book, like the part where you said Jude can just leave, and also the tail part.

I still can't get over that it took 3 whole books for jude and cardan to tell "I love you" and that was litterally on the last page of the last book

omg i’m so happy i can watch this video now that i’ve finally finished the queen of nothing. i totally agree with the things you said in this video, you really brought me through the folk of the air series again!! i’m am so so glad you loved this trilogy as much as i did, i swear the queen of nothing was everything i could ask for as the last book in the series. loved swooning along with you and seeing your reactions to my favourite parts hehe

In my opinion the QON was a satisfying ending in a way but it didn’t make you think ya know? Usually after books like these (especially in the wicked king) I have to think about the ending and like sort of remember the book. But for this book i can summarize what happened in like 10 seconds and the ending didn’t really make me think.

13:06 I'm gonna comment this now, but when I was rereading QoN and the spider earring was touched upon, I couldn't even remember that Grimsen had given it to Carden in twk, so you picking up on its importance is so fascinating to watch, cause I didn't catch that detail when I read the books

i’ve been waiting for this video for what feels like forever and i am so happy someone shares my opinions about qon!! something i wish would’ve been included is jude telling cardan more about the undersea and ofc more judecardan moments but i loved the way holly handled the ending. would’ve felt kinda weird to me had jude and cardan just been all lovey dovey

I loved the book and read it in about a day as well. I was not unhappy with anything and I agree so much with you. The story is about Jude and Cardan and family, a character study and character driven story rather than plot. The only thing that I wanted more of was seeing Jude hone her power as Queen and seeing her use it more. I think that is why I love Holly Black's book so much. :)

I come from goodreads, just finished reading the second book current mood: WHY CARDAN WHY?!?!?!

I don't understand why people were so upset with this book. I finished it a couple weeks ago and I am SO happy with it. I loved the ending.

I really liked the entire trilogy (and the other related books Holly Black has written - Tithe, Ironside, Valiant and The Darkest Part of the Forest.)

You're crazy for reading all three books in one day. Makes my so happy to hear praise for Holly Black though, she's my all time favorite author and has special place in my heart. I read Tithe more than ten years ago and have read it at least five times since. I think it made me embrace my weirdness as a nerdy teenager, being normal is overrated :)

I fell in love with The Wicked King and loved Queen of Nothing too...but mostly because of how much Jude and Cardan make me feel feels and just everything about their individual characters. It's very fast paced and that always has me sold. The only thing I'd say is an issue is because I feel like there's some lose ends and I wish Holly Black would have tied it up better. But I really really cant hold it to fault because it's been so long since I've felt like this about a series, soooo I'm all bias

Couple things for you. Your skin.. ALARMINGLY perfect Your bed frame... NEED I’ve always loved your channel but your content lately has been SOOOO GOOOD. 🔥🔥🔥

I just finished the trilogy and came to watch this ASAP. I loved it all too 😭❤️

PLS i loved this whole series!! Overall the wicked king was my favourite all though i have so much more favorite scenes in the queen of nothing!! JUDE WAS BOSS AND I COULD NOT STOPP SCREAMING WHENEVER SHE FINALLY GOT RESPECTED! LIKE YESS AS SHE SHOULD!!! AAAAA this series isn’t perfect and there are a few things i wish where different, like how i wish cardan and jude had a little more scenes together because they’re story is so beautiful it had so much potential to be better even if it’s already one of my favorite Books overall, i wished cardan showed jude the letters cause they gave me MAD BUTTERFLIES DUDE, also a few unanswered questions as it was a very open ending, it wasnt bad at all but alot of people werent a fan of it i do see why they are upset because it could’ve ended way better but it isnt a terrible ending honestly. I wish she put an extra few pages in though to clarify if JUDE was FINALLY MAGIC AND IMMORTAL, and if JUDE AND CARDAN would have kid/s in the future, if so could she bare more than one since she was a human turned to magic, or if JUDE AND CARDAN would still pass it to OAK and if OAK wanted to take it? Still many unanswered questions that a few pages wouldn’t rlly hurt to put in yk? But yah stilll very much one of my favourites!

Your reactions are fantastic! I haven't read the series but I love hearing your summaries and theories of them. Great video! :D

I LOVE THIS VIDEO SO MUCH AAAAAAAAHHHHHH I had been avoiding this video bc I didn’t want you to not like it, but I felt exactly the same !!!! Thank youuu

Can you pleaseee do a reaction video to cardan’s letters to Jude ?

I read this in one day. I loved it!!! I enjoyed the entire trilogy.

Thank you so much for doing this reading vlog. I love this series. I really appreciate that you read all 3 books in one day. Awesome. I cant wait to finish the 3rd book. 5 star series for me.

Omg I read this in 20 hours and I'm was delirious 🤯😵😄 Currently dealing with series withdrawal and book hangover

yess i knew i could trust your taste sksksks i loved it so much and you just explained why way better than i could

Im exited to see this series more, I think it could be interesting with the whole iron trial series considering it was co-written with holly black

the queen of nothing is actually my favourite of the trilogy 💅💅

You have to read Cardan's letters to Jude!!! MADE ME MELT

oh my gosh i just finished the first book and i know it’s dangerous for me to be here (cuz spoilers) but i couldn’t resist hearing your thoughts on the first book and then you talked about the part where he pricks her finger and i guess i must be dumb because it JUST DAWNED ON ME THAT HE WAS PROTECTING HER I DIDNT EVEN REALIZE AHHHHHHH

Loved your video! I had the same reaction to Queen of Nothing. Sure it wasn’t perfect, but I was happy with it! And I LOVED all the Jude and Cardan moments!

bahahaha your little dance after that scene

also girl you are such a fast reader i literally cannot🤦‍♀️

I haven't read these, but literally the desire to be involved in like magic, or fae, or anything is so strong in me. i would be the type to do this, regardless of how dangerous or stupid, or whatever. Ah, and now am sad that I continued watching this video lol. Still love your channel though lol

I love how excited you were reading the last book it totes reminded me of when I read it haha

Your hair is so beautiful in the intro!!! 🖤

I enjoyed your review and reactions so much! I felt the exact same way I read it. Watching this made me feel like I got to enjoy it again with a like-minded friend :D

I loved this book series and was super happy with the third book.

I LOVED THIS SERIES!!! 💗

Even tho I hate this series and wanna use “the cruel prince” as firewood to keep me warm this winter...I will still watch this cause ily 😂🖤

I loved the folk of the air cos it wasn't perfect but it was fun. I liked how fast I got through them too !

i loved QON too! Finished it yesterday at 3 am, loved the vlog

I've only read tcp and didn't enjoy that much so I don't care a lot for spoilers...with everyone (literally everyone) talking about qon, I had to watch your video! And it was awesome!! great reactions (:

your reaction to queen of nothing is my favourite thing in the world fhdsj

i completely agree with everything you said. i feel like it was the perfect ending for them.

Honestly i loved this series i think tho only reason why people end up not liking it is because it was overhyped, if people read it with no expectations at all like me its really really good.

I read The Cruel Prince. It was okay, slow in the beginning. But I did love her love/hate relationship with Carden towards the end and I want to know more about about their romance but that’s all I really care about. I don’t know if that’s worth read the next book 🤔

have you read cardan’s letters to jude while she’s still in exile?? they are EVERYTHING

imagine looking really pretty! you don’t have to imagine

I haven’t read this series yet but your reactions were everything 🙌 three books in one day? TRULY A QUEEN

Why did I read the whole trilogy in one day too. I flew threw the last two in about two hours each.

I loved QON just as much as you did and I’m so happy 🥰🥰🥰

i enjoyed the queen of nothing ... i just wished there was more judecardan

I am definitely going to have to reread this series in January.

damn, I really hope you’ll do the captive prince or all for the game trilogy for this series too!

This video came at the perfect time! I was planning on reading the QON this week but I’m way too lazy to reread the first two books.

U're always pretty in ur thumbnail, love ur vidss ❤️

queen of nothing was my favorite out of the series!

I need a 4th book soo badly!

way to go. You rocked it. Loved hearing your thoughts.

Lmao I’m dying at you reactions in book 3 😅

Can I start a campaign for more baby chandler?? Cause that was adorable

Yeah i'm that one person left in the world who hasn't read this trilogy yet, so I had to stop after that slight spoiler (which actually made me want to read it even more!) and I'll watch the rest of this video when I'm done lol

ok but the name of this series of you reading series.. you have such a big brain

That clip of you reacting to Twilight hahahaha girl that was me too

How do people don't like this book, it's amazing 🤩

How!? I read this in 3 days and I was reading almost all day each day.

I loved this video so much ! My favorite book of them all is The Queen of Nothing but I still have so much questions like: do they realize that Jude is mortal and will live Cardan alone !! Or will they have a child o Oak will be the next king !?

these covers are so nice DDD:

yeah I gotta rant for a bit LMAO. I really don’t get the sentiment of people thinking “Jude was exiled for no reason” and it was “too easy for her to come back”. it was pretty clear to me that Cardan exiled her in book 2 because he was surprised and UPSET. girl killed his brother, abusive or not that was still his closest family member (and only one still alive besides Oak whom he hardly knows) and really closest relationship besides Jude. as you said: 1) Cardan has human emotions/ moments despite being fae, and 2) he’s not super clever. he wasn’t planning to exile her all along, he was just taken aback and needed time to process what Jude had done (which was specifically against his wishes). plus even despite his own personal feelings, he literally had to do SOMETHING to Jude or else Orla would have demanded her killed. that’s why he put it in the words he did, he was so dope headed that he assumed Jude knew he really loved her, and assumed she would get the memo that she could come back whenever she wanted. yeah he wasn’t clear, but neither was Jude hardly ever lmao. they were both afflicted with the Big Dumb when it came to their feelings for each other, and how they assumed the other felt about them. it’s why the scene with Taryn betraying Jude in book 2 is so powerful and also kinda silly. Jude asks “HOW was Taryn able to tell you what to do, if i’m the only one you made the deal to obey the orders of?” and Cardan is literally like “Because you never had to magically order me, IDIOT, I would do what you asked because I love you dumb bitch” okay maybe this wasn’t literally what they said but it’s basically the gist. idk I feel like people are upset by the exile because they trick themselves into thinking it was some elaborate set up based off of politics and cleverness, because the books have a lot of that, but truly in this instance it is simply because Jude and Cardan are youngsters who can’t communicate the emotions they feel and don’t want to admit them with just a dash of punishment for the sake of not letting Orla straight kill Jude as a traitor to the treaty. idk I loved book 3, I definitely love 1 and 2 more but I have basically no complaints for 3 lol .