The Cruel Prince
A human girl raised in Faerie by the man who murdered her parents decides that the way to be safe is to become dangerous. The cruelty is real, the politics are genuinely intricate, and the romance is almost entirely composed of hostility. On the House's scale it rates 1 for spice (a door, closed), 3 for how much of the book is the romance, and 5 for craft. ACOTAR readers who want the fae court politics without the explicit content.
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How it rates
- Author
- Holly Black
- Series
- The Folk of the Air, book 1 of 3 · series complete
- Spice
- Spice 1 out of 5, A door, closed1/5 · A door, closed
- Romance
- 3/5
- Plot
- 5/5
- Worldbuilding
- 5/5
- Darkness
- 4/5
- Writing craft
- 5/5
- Burn
- Slow burn
- Point of view
- first person
- Ending
- Happy ever after · cliffhanger
- Setting
- The High Court of Elfhame
- Audience
- Young adult
- Pages
- 370
On the spice rating Kissing and considerable tension. Nothing on the page beyond that. How the scale works.
Content warnings violence, bullying, murder of parents, poisoning.
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