The Folk of the Air – 1. The Cruel Prince — Holly Black

Holly Black, c’est l’une de mes auteur préférées, que j’ai découverte grâce au recueil de nouvelles Zombies contre Licornes, écrit en association avec plusieurs autres grands noms de la littérature young adulte anglaise. Plus récemment, j’ai commencé son The Darkest Part of the Forest et même s’il me plaît beaucoup, il me tombe régulièrement des mains à cause de passages qui tirent un peu en longueur…

The Cruel Prince est un livre qui, dès sa sortie, m’avait attirée… et pourtant il ‘ma fallu des mois avant que je me décide à enfin me pencher un peu plus sérieusement sur son cas !

Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever. And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest.

I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.

Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.

To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences. In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering her own capacity for bloodshed. But as civil war threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.