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it’s not one anon, just nobody genuinely likes...
Also wow do people really stan jude/carden this hard
Yes. Very yes.
I hate Carden’s guts. Admittedly planning on doing a reread of cruel prince/wicked king before release with the mindset of ‘BELIEVE THIS MAN IS OKAY’, but he’s an absolute slag of a bully who gets forgiven because he had a bad childhood. Cool backstory, still abusive dynamic for a romantic relationship!
barring a lot, we’ll need heavy redemption for me to wind up on the side of the very inevitable jude/carden endgame.
We be poppin’ the biggest bottles when carden dies in QoN (cue: FOR SALE, BOTTLES, NEVER POPPED)
However, the funny thing about the anon hate (I haven’t answered all of it because it’s super boring standard) is that like. Yes, I don’t like carden (in terms of carden/jude since Jude deserves better) (I like him as a literary, character, you see). However, yes, I love Cruel Prince trilogy! Like my newly dissed book blog- I read cruel prince in one sitting, got wicked king as an ARC and read it in one sitting, and gave both 5 stars.
I just am super super critical of male love interests in the genre of YA dark fantasy and the standards they set up for acceptable behavior and what is forgiven- see the much worse ACOTAR for super unhealthy dynamics in like, all ships.















