- Children's fiction, Kings, queens, rulers, etc., fiction, Fairies, fiction, Storytelling, fiction
Once upon a time, there was a boy with a wicked tongue. Before Cardan was a cruel prince or a wicked king, he was a faerie child with a heart of stone. This tale includes delicious details of life before The Cruel Prince, an adventure beyond The Queen of Nothing, and familiar moments from The Folk of the Air trilogy, told wholly from Cardan's perspective.
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Classical in form, grave, effortless and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Holly Black, Rovina Cai
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 200
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Co, Hot Key Books, LitJoy Crate
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316540810
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Holly Black is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over thirty fantasy novels for kids and teens. She has been a finalist for an Eisner Award and the Lodestar Award, and the recipient of the Mythopoeic Award, a Nebula, and a Newbery Honor. Her books have been translated into 32 languages worldwide and adapted for film. She currently lives in New England with her husband and son in a house with a secret library.
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