Children born of fairy stock (The Cruel Prince by Holly Black sync read post)

[hamsterwoman]

ikel89 and hopefully cyanshadow, and anyone else who wishes to join us, are embarking on a sync read of Holly Black's The Cruel Prince . Wicked fairies and larcenous teens (probably) and complicated family relationships (almost certainly) galore!

Come join, or if you've already read it, comment along as we progress through the book.

Comments

through chapter 27 / ~90%

[hamsterwoman]

OK, almost none of that ended up going the way I was expecting (and the things that I was expecting to happen which did still happened in a very different way), which is... kind of a mixed thing

Re: through chapter 27 / ~90%

[ikel89]

- But, like, really? Given how rare children in Faerie are, nobody thought it was weird that Oriana suddenly had a kid? Nobody suspected that, even if it was her kid, it might've been not Madoc's but Eldred's, given that she was Eldred's consort? I mean, it doesn't seem like Balekin is the sharpest knife in the drawer, but Dain seems smarter than that, and also paranoid enough? And he was always hanging out with Madoc?
I would say it is beyond stupid, but literally no one in the book did anything to make this feat dumber than the rest. Maddock didn't think to inspect his wife's remains too closely, or look for her human lover anywhere (the recapped story of their demise never featured a third corpse, so supposedly they just didn't notice their guest blacksmith who was flirting with a married woman just disappeared?:')))

Re: through chapter 27 / ~90%

[hamsterwoman]

OK, yeah, this is a fair point. XD

Although, re: wife's remains, etc. I did get the sense that he was absent for quite a while, and the blacksmith came and went as he liked.

Re: through chapter 27 / ~90%

[ikel89]

Still not convinced. He presumably never reappears in fairy land after the double murder and no one followed up? Beyond shit forensics they have shit brains :D

Re: through chapter 27 / ~90%

[hamsterwoman]

Beyond shit forensics they have shit brains :D

I mean, you aren't wrong XP