The Cruel Prince

The Cruel Prince

This is a previously published cover edition of ISBN 9780316310277. An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

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 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.

As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal 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.

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    The Cruel Prince Reviews

  • Melanie

    “He looks like a faerie lover stepped out of a ballad, the kind where no good comes to the girl who runs away with him.” If you guys ever want to see what my true heart’s desires are ...

  • Emily May

    No matter how careful I am, eventually I'll make another misstep. I am weak. I am fragile. I am mortal.I hate that most of all. 4 1/2 stars. Over the course of this year, I've read both books that ...

  • Warda

    So, where to begin. Hype as we know it, is quite futile. The buzz it ignites is amazing. They create this excitement within you that has your mind wandering to all of the possibilities and direction t...

  • Miranda Reads

    If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse. Jude (and her twin, Taryn) are human but their older sister (Vivi) belonged to another world. Their mother fled when she was pregnant ...

  • Marie Lu

    WHAT IS THIS BEAUTY. Someone please revive me because I am dead from the awesomeness of this book.If you want to read a masterpiece of character and story, look no further. The Cruel Prince showcases ...

  • ??BooksofRadiance??

    384 pages. ZERO SUBSTANCE. Unless you call pages littered with problematic shit... substance.I don’t get it. I just don’t fucking get it. ✨ Before: This book is my 1st experience with Holly Blac...

  • Jesse (JesseTheReader)

    I liked this a lot! I completely get why so many people didn't enjoy this and there are plenty of things certain characters do that are inexcusable. There were just so many other things about the book...

  • Emily (Books with Emily Fox)

    Sorry folks, I don't get it.2.5? Maybe...Unmemorable. Another YA fantasy with fairies and humans, clichés and cringe romance similar to all the other fantasy/dystopian books that have been coming out...

  • Victoria Aveyard

    I require book 2 immediately. Holly is the Faerie Queen....

  • NReads

    not a day goes by without thinking how freaking annoying Jude was in this book...