The Cruel Prince Non Spoiler Review! 

the prince?? is her nemesis?? they have a rivalry?? *SNIFF SNIFF* i smell the enemies to lovers trope coming in

The most interresting thing in this book is the characterization of Jude, I mean she is human in the world of Fairie, and she is not really good, she is not really evil too. It's just the perfect définition for a human character, she is not à perfect character and it made her really attractive. The balance in her characterization is perfect and she doesn't look like some stock and flat character. I hope Vivienne and Taryn will be more developed in the other book, especially Vivienne which looks like so lovely!

When I first saw the book I thought it was gonna be a love story between Jude and Cardan I still want that to happen

I loved how Jude's characterization was. I am the same age as her and I found so nice that she was having mental breakdowns or panic attacks before doing dangerous things (not because of her suffering, but because when you have the same age as the main character you wonder how it would feel going through the same things). It felt as if I was reading an actual teenager. Some YA writers put oblivious teenagers to do a lot of things without panicking and it's just so fake lmao. Plus the mental illness rep was very well done so I really can't wait to see what she's going to do next.

You are so eloquent, it's always such a pleasure to watch your reviews.

Yay! I also loved it! I was scared because I was so excited for An Enchantment of Ravens, and i was so disappointed. So I was worried for another fae book, but The Cruel Prince was very good.

How do you and jesse upload at exactly the same time? It's a miracle.

I really love your reviews! I mean I wanted to read that book for a long time but your enthusiasm and arguments made me want to start reading it IMMEDIATELY. Keep up the amazing work!😊❤

Im currently reading it and Im amazed how good of a book it is, I meant to read it years ago but Im just so happy Im reading right now, and your review was the best ^^

I am not only new to this channel, but new to the book reviewing community on RU-vid! I never stopped to think there’d be one, but I’m glad I came across it because I really want to start reading more books, specifically fantasy! After just finishing Kingdom of Ash, I heard of this one and wanted to check out what people thought! Glad I did, I’m BURSTING to read it! Subscribed!

This was my first Holly Black novel! I loved it!! So excited for this series to continue! Loved your in-depth review about the world & characters!

Definitely going to be picking this up! I've heard great things from a lot of people who often share my reading tastes. Hoping I'll enjoy it 🤞

This has been getting so much hype! I can't wait to read it!

I cannot wait to discuss this book! I loved it a lot and I can’t wait to discuss the events! What time is the live show again? Great review, Regan!

This book sounds amazing!! I can't wait to read it! Great review Regan!

This is exactly what I needed to see if I needed to purchase the trilogy or not! Thanks darling just ordered it xx

The excitement I have for reading this booooooooook!!!!!!!!! I'm always apprehensive about hyped books, but everyone so far has said it owns up to the hype so I'm really excited!! :) I am excited to see this new perspective on a fae world where she's going to school and everything, every fae book I've read has not even included schook or anything so very different!

I loved the cruel prince it was brilliant i loved it so much i am like you it is killing me to wait for the second one I got mine as a advance arc and flow through it. I am buying the physical copy on Friday and was lucky enough to have a signed copy....I can not wait

Regan! Please do a spoiler review of your thoughts! I just finished this as well and I need to talk about it with someone... haha

Great review! I can't wait to read this and have heard great things so far!

I think I'll wait until the next books are out before starting the serie, I don't want to suffer through the wait of another sequel 😄 (looking at you ToG7 👀)

I ENJOYED THIS BOOK SO, SO MUCH AAHHHH

I really enjoyed it! I was a little underwhelmed with the development of some of the side characters, but I most definitely will pick up the sequels.

There is a specific part without spoiling that gave me Red Wedding vibes and i had to listen to the song that plays in thats scene while reading. I love the book so much I read it in two days haha and to see the connection to A Modern Faerie tale and The Darkest Part of the Forest had me geeking out haha I felt the world grew large in this story. I felt Jude was very nicely layered and i gelg her frustrations of being let down in ways and gaining power and betrayals

Really enjoy your thorough reviews!

Can't wait to read this. My copy is supposed to arrive tomorrow!

Great reviewer you are - nice speaking voice - I am sold - going to get "Cruel Prince"!

I haven’t read anything by Holly since the Spiderwick Chronicles yeaaaars ago and just started this one today! Sooo looking forward to getting into it! Loved the review ❤️ I can feel one coming on when I’ve finished it too!

I finished it 2 days ago and none of my favorite booktubers had posted a video about it but now you have!!!!!!!!!

So excited to read it! I've heard nothing but great things from absolutely everyone.

I absolutely loved this book! I'm so glad you enjoyed it too :)

You definitely made me want to read it and I had absolutely no interest before. :)

I literally read this in this month (february 2019) and I'm so drop dead in love, and THEN I discover that the book came out a YEAR ago?! AND THAT THERE IS A SEQUEL?! my life just got better than better

I feel like the King stepped down just to see his many children fighting for the crown. You know, for the fun of it. I didn't read the book, but will definitely check it out once it's out in my country.

Sold! I wasn't going to read this book, but this sounds like perfection.

Added this to my tbr pile!! 💕

I really REAAALLY wanna read it now 😍❤

I really enjoyed this book and I think your perspective was very fair. I personally liked Jude’s attitude and enjoyed that ugliness about her character that not many readers considered ideal. I didn’t know what to expect from Jude throughout the book

Reading it right now. IT IS BLOODY AMAZING

i am excited and at the same time very nervous to read it since i heard some mix review but still bought it since it is very interesting story great review

This was a five star read for me as well Reagan! I loved this book so much! I’m also one of those rare unicorns that thought that the ACOTAR trilogy was absolute garbage, and felt like The Cruel Prince was the answer to every single complaint I had about the ACOTAR trilogy. Also, get hyped the second book is called The Wicked King and the third book is called The Queen of Nothing! Aaaah! So excited for the next two books. :)

I am currently reading this and have been nervous *because* of how hyped it is. I'm off to a slow start because its been hard switching from reading contemporaries to this. But I enjoyed your review so I'm hopeful!

Definitely going to read this now! Yayyy!

I liked that the whole book is unpredictable. I just cant wait for the second to come out!

I really want to read The Cruel Prince and I hope it is in my Fairyloot this month!!:D

I looved this book! Especially Jude, she was such am amazing and interesting protag.

I have it four stars! Very solid book and I’m excited for the next!!

I just got the 1st and 2nd book now. Gonna read it.

The bookset is arriving today lmao soo exciteddd

Yay I loved this book mainly because I love fae and the darkest part of the forest is one of my favorite books so happy that some of the characters were in this book 💖

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

aaaaand added to my wishlist

Looking forward to the "Neverwhere" Review.

Okay, so now I really want to read this book.

I just got this in the mail today!! :)

I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS BOOK SERIES ITS TIED AT FIRST PLACE WITH SIX OF CROWS. JUDE IS MY MFKING QUEEN

I really like to see what others think of this book, because I absolutely disliked it. I don’t know if it’s just me, but I guess that’s what intrigues me more to find out what others think. Have been scrolling through reviews for this book on yt and just trying to find out if it really is just me or if there are others who share my opinion.

I read it in a day when it came out and I am now so upset I have to wait so long for the next one 😩

If you haven’t read Tithe, valiant, and Ironside by holly Black; you’re missing out. I read them back in high school, bus still love to reread them now. Holly Black is one of my favorite authors.

First to comment! Yayyy Looking pretty Regan

So my first ever Fey series was the Iron Fey series. I LOVED it (though I haven’t read the last book which is told from a different story from the first 4 books, I don’t wanna give any spoilers but yea, I love it still to not want to finish it *cries*). It had a Romeo and Juliet vibe but not really. The fey are nastier than this book but I just loved the whole story since it had action, likable characters, and a semi-ok heroine. Then I read Acotar series and I fell in love with the fey all over again. Then I read this book and I feel like something is lacking. Maybe because I would like to read something to what I’ve read before regarding the fey, I’m not sure. I’m actually hyped for the 2nd book to see how everything unfolds since it left on a pretty nice cliffhanger (totally my opinion). It was slow until 3/3 of the book but I liked seeing how different this heroine was from the fey series I’ve read before. It’s quite refreshing to see how the romance wasn’t insta (still not sure that they will actually fall in love but I hope so, this is why I bought the book) and I’d like to see how Carden.....grows? Is that the right word? All in all, I liked it. Not as much as my past reads of fey but enough to want to buy the next book :3

The first quarter or the third of the book I was kind of disappointed but after that? It was FLIPPIN amazing. I read it in a day and no regret (Although I have finals tommorow) and I was unbelievably surprised about how stuff happened. Oof. (Also does anybody get feverish when they read a whole book in one go? Because every time I do that I get feverish and hot and feel kind of drunk...)

Great review! Is there a romance aspect to the story?

Yesss I loved this book too!!

I read the book it was amazing. I was reading it today and i saw that Narcissa’s name is now Nicasia and now i feel like i’m going crazy because i really thought her name was Narcissa.😅

The first few chapters I didn't like but then I got into it and couldn't put it down till I finished it

You might like the iron day series! It has a similar plot line to this book but different elements.

I've never read a fae book, and I'm really interested in this book. I've never read any of Holly Black either, so this is all new to me.

This book was awesome. I am hoping there is a sequel........

I liked the book. It was slow getting into it but when I got to about the middle that's when it picked up and I was hooked

I loved the cruel prince book I mean I like jude a lot cuz she both good and bad and also she is a easy to relate to person. I also like vivi a lot and want to know more about her.

You should check out Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clark if you like that kind of world/setting One of my favorite books of all time.

Is this Urban Fantasy like The Raven Boys or The Mortal Instruments? Or Fantasy like Throne of Glass or The Grisha trilogy?

... I will have a copy of it with me... Haven't read it yet... Will be doing so asap

Hey thanks for the review ! But the link doesnt work just to say

i remeber reading a review for this book and like the person gave away a major spolier like it was like just reviewing and BAM spoiler so upset

random question, what shade and brand is your nailpolish??

So good!!

This series is so goooooooooooood

When is the perustopia liveshow?

I'm glad you enjoyed the book; I wish I did. But what descriptions are you talking about exactly....? There were no descriptions and world building whatsoever, reason why I felt so disconnected from the book. It was very very telly. This was my first Holly Black book, and tbh? I'm not a fan.

Do you think that this book would be a good read for Christian teen girl

Spoiler Why does Jude kiss cardan at the end? It didn’t make sense to me; was it just to have power over him or something?

I don't know why they don't publish Holly's Black books in Poland but I'll probably just grab this in English xD

ME TOO PEOPLE R SENDING TOO MUCH hATE FOR THE best book iread

Is The Cruel Prince a good first Holly Black book or should I start with another one of her books?

Liked it but felt like the hype really set the bar high and it didn't quite reach it.

Ahhh I've been waiting for someone to do this! This book has gotten so much hype on booktube. Btw I'm having a book giveaway on my channel if anyone's interested!

The whole book i couldn't decide weather or not I liked madoc

Well you made me buy the book hahaha. My name is Taryn and I pronounce my name t-a-rin xxx

New follower here, so sorry if this is common knowledge but I love your videos and I've been pretty much binge watching them; Iwould love to know how to join perusetopia or what books your reading each month so I can follow along. Thanks!!!!

Can the first book be read as a stand alone? bc I’m not even sure if I even wanna read all three lol

I won't recommend this book to everyone(I loved it tho)..this book is defo not an easy read.i kinda felt lost in the middle like I wasn't able to catch with with soo many characters but I somehow made it to the end. The plot was Duke tho... In short if u are not that much into reading or often find urself in a reading slump then this book is not for you.

I actually don’t like holly black’s writing. I’ve never been able to finish her books. But I’m going to give her one more shot and read this

TheHATE i have for taryn is unparallel

Is this book romance?

It to me was honestly just okay.

I was so excited about this, but the elements of the plot sound very similar to Darkest part of the forest which had very similar elements to Tithe 🙁 I love the way she writes about faeries, but I feel like these are different versions of the same story.

Bro why is my book so tiny i don’t understand

Well i hated the ending, and the epilogue couldn't even fix it. Not all surprises are good. This is nothing but a cautionary tale of how people can make you into a monster from which you can never return to yourself, but it should have at least shown how she overcame losing Locke and Cardan by finding a more noble, fulfilling purpose than merely wielding power over a throne her better self never wanted. She still didn't even belong to either world in the end, and she had nothing more fitting to show for it than hated, lonely, power over fairyland (through Cardan)? I know she thought she was making fairyland better, but yeah, what happens after a year? I thought this was "enemy-to-friend," but it was merely enemy-to-worse-enemy. How stupid and disappointing (even though, again, congrats for surprising me lol)! How is this supposed to be constructive (despite the dark beauty of its description of how it feels to be an innocent outcast from every land and unable to find yourself again after suffering excruciating loss at the hands of the humans and their dumb pride)?