Book one in the Folk of the air series, by Holly Black ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewbox="0 0 24 24" style="flex-shrink: 0; display: inline-block; max-width: none;"></svg> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewbox="0 0 24 24" style="flex-shrink: 0; display: inline-block; max-width: none;"></svg> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewbox="0 0 24 24" style="flex-shrink: 0; display: inline-block; max-width: none;"></svg> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewbox="0 0 24 24" style="flex-shrink: 0; display: inline-block; max-width: none;"></svg> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewbox="0 0 24 24" style="flex-shrink: 0; display: inline-block; max-width: none;"></svg> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewbox="0 0 24 24" style="flex-shrink: 0; display: inline-block; max-width: none;"></svg> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewbox="0 0 24 24" style="flex-shrink: 0; display: inline-block; max-width: none;"></svg> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewbox="0 0 24 24" style="flex-shrink: 0; display: inline-block; max-width: none;"></svg> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewbox="0 0 24 24" style="flex-shrink: 0; display: inline-block; max-width: none;"></svg> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewbox="0 0 24 24" style="flex-shrink: 0; display: inline-block; max-width: none;"></svg>Rating: 5 out of 5. This was another surprise of 2020. I did not expect to like it as much as I did, especially because so many people had told me it was weird. Okay, maybe it is a little weird, but I enjoyed its weirdness. It reminded me a lot of a book I used to read as a kid, called Fairy Oak. It was about two girls born with fairy powers, though one was dark and the other was light. In The Cruel Prince we have fairies, and even though they are described as beautiful, they also they very peculiar characteristics. Many have horns, other wings, talons, fur, tails… They are not human, and while reading the book I was thinking that as a human I probably wouldn’t have thought they were beautiful. <iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/3o7btTju8ze9FepmTu" title="fairies" style="border: 0; left: 0; height: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0; width: 100%;"></iframe> Jude, however, is not a normal human. She was “kidnapped” as a kid, because of her older sister Vivy. She was the child of a fae warrior, and he’d dedicated his life to finding her. After killing their parents, Madoc decided to bring in the fairie world with him Vivy, Jude and her twin Taryn. Jude grew up amongst fairies. She doesn’t have what we could call human beauty standards. At the same time, though, everyone else seems to despise her because she is human. Especially Cardan. If you like enemies to lovers, this is your book. Cardan and Jude hate each other, but their feel somehow attraction, and they don’t know how to deal with that. Let me just say, it won’t be healthy, nor logical. It will be messy, confusing, and stupid. For us readers, it will be funny and annoying at the same time. Before anyone starts thinking about healthy relationship and stuff like that, I want to say that while I don’t p