The Friday 56: The Wicked King by Holly Black

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*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader.
*Find any sentence (or a few, just don’t spoil it) that grab you.
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“Someone you trust has already betrayed you.”

I have a very short snippet from Holly Black’s The Wicked King, sequel to her standout novel The Cruel Prince, but I think it succinctly summarizes this one quite nicely. As our heroine Jude tries to hang on to power in the Faerie world, a traitor lies in her midst. If you like antiheroes and moral ambiguity in your fantasy worlds, this is a series you ought to reach for. You can read my review of this one here. Cover is linked to Goodreads.

From the Goodreads Synopsis:

      “You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring.
      The first lesson is to make yourself strong.
      After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her younger brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. Navigating the constantly shifting political alliances of Faerie would be difficult enough if Cardan were easy to control. But he does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her even as his fascination with her remains undiminished.
      When it becomes all too clear that someone close to Jude means to betray her, threatening her own life and the lives of everyone she loves, Jude must uncover the traitor and fight her own complicated feelings for Cardan to maintain control as a mortal in a Faerie world.”