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Hi, I take it that you completed the Cruel Prince trilogy and The Darkest Part Of The Forest, so maybe you know. I purchased and am reading the books in Polish, my native language (so maybe there are some translation issues) and I'm finishing QoN at the moment but already skipped through TDPotF AND in QoN Jude saw a red haired girl knight, who I presume is Hazel, but who is the person she reconizes as the warrior's twin and Severin's spouse? Is he not with Ben after all? I am confusion plz help

Really sorry - never read The Darkest Part of the Forest! (Funny though, my native language is Polish too 😊)

Maybe someone from my followers could help here?

gellavonhamster

Honestly, I’d love to read a TFOTA novella/short story about Eva Duarte. From what we know about her, she was a good mother (though the girls’ memories of her must be heavily tinted with nostalgia and therefore possibly idealized), she loved her family, and she wanted Vivi to be ‘particularly kind’. She also (together with Justin or alone) killed a pregnant woman in order to fake her death and escape Faerieland. And she used to be friends with Lady Asha, who valued partying and entertainment over her own baby son. She seems like a very complex character (which really could be said about every member of Jude’s family, biological or adopted), and I think it would be interesting to learn her own perspective of what happened to her in Faerie.

oblivionsdream

Inspired by @cordeliaxcarstairsx post. I saw it and couldn’t resist. XD

#this is everything

thequeenofcardan

How do you pronounce Elfhame?? I’ve always wondered if I was saying it correctly

I always pronounced it Elf-ame, with the h being silent (and -ame rhyming with lame or game)

BUT English is not my native language so don’t take my word for it anon! 😅

cvrdans-deactivated20210411

Oh? I've always pronounced the H

elf-hame

thequeenofcardan

Well I suspect this comes down to me living in Britain where all the Hs in names of places, seem to be silent - Birmingham, Clapham, Fulham, etc.

Some linguist (?) online says that “In general, word-medial /h/ tends to be lost before an unstressed vowel”

I’m not saying this is the right pronunciation, just the way I pronounce it 🤷‍♀️

How do you pronounce Elfhame?? I’ve always wondered if I was saying it correctly

I always pronounced it Elf-ame, with the h being silent (and -ame rhyming with lame or game)

BUT English is not my native language so don’t take my word for it anon! 😅

helnik-deactivated20201102

looking for blogs to follow

i entered college last year and fell inactive but new year calls for new times so i’m trying to be active again! my dash is dead so please like/reblog this post if you post the following and I’ll check out your blog:

Six of Crows

The Raven Cycle

The Song of Achilles

Harry Potter

The Cruel Prince

All For The Game

Books by Victoria Schwab

Books by Rick Riordan

Generally a lit blog please

I would very much prefer it if you are a pale/pastel blog with a tagging system. Have a nice 2020!

A new TFOTA novella confirmed?

Found on Twitter:

#a screenshot of a screenshot lol #quality post right here #but ahhh I hope it’s true #holly black #tfota #tqon #the queen of nothing #qon #queen of nothing #the folk of the air

faerytalesfromtheabyss

Why Locke’s death was off-page

I know a lot of people were annoyed that Locke’s death was off-page and I can’t blame them. We all wanted to see that turd get stabbed in the neck. But I get such a keen sense of satisfaction thinking about how much Locke would have HATED finding out his death wasn’t important enough to make it on the page. That he wasn’t the master of stories like he thought he was. That Taryn was the main character and he was just a footnote.

Having his death off-page undermines what he would want as a character. And frankly, I love that

coffee-malediction-deactivated2

I think Dain almost becoming king broke something in Cardan

The bastard older brother who framed him for murder was about to be handed a position of absolute power. Cardan must have been feeling completely hopeless. He must have thought "This is going to be awful. I might as well send a beautiful dress to the mortal girl I love and dance with her tonight."

clockworkgraystairs

I'm soft now

blackthornkisses

mark my words: taryn and the ghost are gonna end up together,, it’s so obvious. “watching her” yeah right. he’s probably in love with her

thequeenofcardan

imma go a step further and say it’s actually his baby and they’ve been sleeping together behind locke’s back - they both got flustered when jude asked them if they had known each other

fandom

2019’s Top Books

Wizards. Demigods. Warring cat tribes. Fairies. Assassins. Fairy assassins. This list has ‘em all.

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

The Warriors series +1 by Erin Hunter

Percy Jackson & the Olympians −1 by Rick Riordan

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin

Carry On +7 by Rainbow Rowell

The All for the Game series +3 by Nora Sakavic

The Six of Crows Duology −3 by Leigh Bardugo

Pride and Prejudice −1 by Jane Austen

The Raven Cycle series −4 by Maggie Stiefvater

The Captive Prince Trilogy by C. S. Pacat

The Wicked King, Book 2 of The Folk of the Air Trilogy by Holly Black

A Court of Thorns and Roses series −6 by Sarah J. Maas

The Cruel Prince, Book 1 of The Folk of the Air Trilogy +4 by Holly Black

The Silmarillion +5 by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Throne of Glass series −7 by Sarah J. Maas

Discworld by Terry Pratchett

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare

The Outsiders −6 by S. E. Hinton

The Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer

The Dark Artifices Trilogy −1 by Cassandra Clare

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

The Great Gatsby −2 by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Trials of Apollo series −2 by Rick Riordan

The Wings of Fire series −2 by Tui T. Sutherland

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series −11 by Rick Riordan

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Milk and Honey −15 by Rupi Kaur

Good Omens −19 by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

The number in italics indicates how many spots a title moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded titles weren’t on the list last year.

thequeenofcardan

Um... Why is TFOTA split between The Cruel Prince and The Wicked King instead of being classified as a series (like every single other series on this list)...? If it’s done based on the counts of hashtags surely the combined place for the series would be higher...

pistachio-icecream

Am I the only one that was bothered by how Jude figured out about the hair on the bridle thing by freaking Mother Marrow who no one cares about, after (for whatever reason) going to her for guidance (?????) and making a sarcastic comment?????

She might have literally bound herself to a snake if it wasn't for the rare occurrence of her saying a sassy line and that is not how you build a plot point sorry Holly I love you but what??the???fuck?????????

thequeenofcardan

Agreed, I found that nonsensical too. Jude should have found out about this some other way.

So I saw that you read TFOTA before reading Modern Faerie Tales and TDPOTF. I was just wondering if you were completely lost reading the scenes that included Roiben, Kaye and Severin or if you could follow along okay without having read those books. I've been wanting to recommend TFOTA to a few people but I didn't know how they would understand the political aspects of TFOTA if they hadn't read those.

I don’t think not having read the other books had any impact on my understanding of the faerie politics, no! I felt like the readers were given enough information about Roiben, Kaye, and Severin in TFOTA itself to understand the overall political situation. I didn’t even realise those were characters from other books until I saw people mention it on Tumblr, to be completely honest.

So yeah overall I feel like it should be totally fine to recommend TFOTA to people as a standalone series - I totally enjoyed it as such. But I haven’t actually read the modern faerie tales or the darkest part of the forest yet, so I can’t say for sure if there was anything I blatantly missed because of that. It didn’t feel like that though.

Hey! So I want to start reading queen of nothing etc. But I’m not sure where I start? Which books are in the series and which order should I read them in ?? ❤️💕💝xxx

Hi! As for the Folk of the Air trilogy, the first book is The Cruel Prince, which I started from. The second book is The Wicked King and the final one The Queen of Nothing.

There are other, earlier books by Holly Black set in this universe (called Modern Faeire Tales and The Darkest Part of the Forest I believe) but it’s not necessary to have read them to understand the plot. The characters from those books simply appear as cameos in TFOTA. I personally never read them and started from The Cruel Prince.

Hope this helps!