The Seelie are traditionally more benevolent, though still dangerous, but would only act out when offended, while the Unseelie are inherently evil, and in this novel includes the Court of Teeth, Court of Moths, and the Undersea. She’s forced to navigate the world of the morally grey gentry, and eventually enters a grudging relationship with Cardan.Ĭardan Greenbriar and Jude Duarte by on Twitterįey in Anglo-Scottish folklore have been categorized in different ways however, The Cruel Prince takes directly from Scottish folklore in separating them in Seelie and Unseelie courts, or light and dark. He offers her immunity to fairy charms and thrusts her into a plot to stop his older brother’s plan to seize the crown. After being denied a chance to prove her knighthood, Jude instead is offered to become a spy for Dain, the third-oldest child of the High King, who covets her for her ability to lie whereas fey cannot. The fey mock Jude and her twin sister Taryn for being mortal, forcing them to kiss their feet, eat charmed fruits, and just engage in elevated schoolyard bullying. By all other regards, fey appear similar to humans, albeit a bit smaller, slighter, and generally more beautiful. It’s established early on that all fey have animal properties Locke has fox eyes, Vivian has cat eyes, and Cardan has a tail – though not everyone’s animal traits are described in the novel. The fey in question who torment her are Valerian (he’s killed off 50 pages into the book and we know nothing about him except he’s the meanest) Nicasia, princess of the Undersea Locke, the emotionally manipulative theater kid and Cardan, the infamously sadistic youngest prince of Elfhame. While in Faerie, she becomes hateful toward the gentry she’d grown around and has aspirations to become a knight in order to prove herself to Madoc. The series follows Jude Duarte, a human girl who’s whisked away to Faerie with her twin sister after witnessing her parents be murdered by Madoc, her mother’s old lover and the father of her older sister, Vivian. You can hop from island to island on big stones. The bulk of the series takes place on Insmire, the largest island.
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