The Wicked King

So the other day I finished reading The Wicked King by Holly Black and man I have a lot of feelings about it so here is my ramble of emotions. This is basically me saying shit about the book that makes no sense unless you've read it and understand fangirl language.

SPOILERS AHEAD!!

I'm gonna start with Jude because she's the main character (obvs). So Jude is so forking bad ass because she's just this human girl living with all these asshole faeries and she outsmarts them constantly. Her ordering Cardan around is my favourite thing and I love how she actually matters to the court now like YAS BITCH!

Cardan makes me so confused because like Jude one minute I love him and the next I hate him. I don't think I need to go over the whole tail bit because we all know how fantastic that was. He clearly has feelings for Jude but doesn't want to admit it because she's just a human and he's the High King and she tricked him. BUT he loves her.

I cannot describe how much I dislike Taryn. What a fucking bitch. I am mad that Jude forgave her, because I wouldn't. And why would you want to marry someone who fucks around with your twin sister just because he can and wants to see you not react and let him do it?!

I'm not even going to talk about Locke because I hate him more.

I swear you can't trust anyone in this book. Even THE GHOST!! How dare he?! I was so mad, so many parts of this book made me mad. But I also loved it. Its like Jude and Cardan's relationship. But it was so funny when Balekin tries to glamour Jude and get her to kill Cardan. And her killing him was great. It seems there's a lot you can solve with murder after all.


CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE END?!! wtf. How dare this happen??? I was somewhat suspicious of the whole marriage thing but I was too happy about it to actually worry and then BOOM. So part of me is also maybe thinking Cardan sent her away to protect her after she ended up kidnapped by the Undersea and nearly died. Its so hard to tell with him. But I mean they are married now and he cant lie so if someone straight up asks him he cant lie about it, but then faeries are tricky. I don't want to have to wait to find out what Jude is going to do and if Cardan really loves her (which I think he does).

To be honest this is just unintelligible ramblings. Could have been longer but I had an interview today and that's all I can think about.

- Claire