How The King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

Book: How The King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

Author: Holly Black

Review: Holly Black is an expert at storytelling in a political romantasy in the kingdom of faerie based on her Elfhame Series. This short novel shall make the reader want to read more about the Folk of the Air in her first three books, The Cruel Prince, The Wicked King and The Queen of Nothing. Cardan and Jude sneak out from the Kingdom of Faerie into the human world with Jude only to find an old storyteller who met Cardan is being hunted and is sent back into the Kingdom of Elfhame. The rest is all history on the King of Elfhame’s life.

Star Rating : 5 of 5

Spice rating : 0 of 5

Book Recommendation : Yes/To those who love stories and morals to fairytales

Thoughts:

• A lovely fae novella
• Something different and light like a refreshment
• I love Cardin and Jude’s relationship
• From Cardan’s view at the beginning of the Cruel Prince