This was never truly explored in a satisfactory manner, and Taryn spent much of the book either far away from the action or being an interior decorator. Jude mentioned multiple times that she hadn’t thought Taryn capable of murder and that if she could kill her husband, perhaps Jude didn’t know her at all. Likewise, Taryn was sidelined to a ridiculous degree. Not to mention that it does almost nothing for the story other than serve as a catalyst to have Jude return to Elfhame.

Jude – and the audience – were owed the chance to witness his death. After everything Locke has done to Jude, killing him off-page was practically cruel. In particular, I thought that Locke’s death – happening between books as it did – was a detriment to the series. There are certain events and characters that didn’t get the development they should have, the attention they might have gotten in a longer book. All of the books are fast-paced and seem short because of it, but this one felt too short. It’s a bit disconcerting that the final book in the trilogy is the shortest of the three.

It feels like a complete tonal shift from The Cruel Princeand The Wicked King.

In fact, the end was almost downright adorable. So I was very much amazed when absolutely none of that happened. Surely someone was going to die or get their heart broken or lose a limb or something. Considering how almost every character was horrible in some way, I thought there was no way any of them could have a happy ending. To be perfectly honest, I was expecting The Queen of Nothing to have a bittersweet ending. At last I learned how things ended up for Jude, Cardan, and the rest of the faerie. 22.I’ve arrived to the party fashionably late, but I finally finished The Queen of Nothing, the conclusion to Holly Black’s Folk of Air trilogy. In this thrilling conclusion to the Faerie fantasy Folk of the Air trilogy, Jude needs to harden her heart yet again and make the most difficult decision of all. 9781471407598 The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air #3) 22.9900 NZD InStock /shop/books/teen-young-adult/fiction/science-fiction-fantasy /shop/books/teen-young-adult /shop/books/teen-young-adult/fiction /shop/books /shop/books/childrens-books /shop/books/childrens-books/fiction /shop/books/childrens-books/fiction/science-fiction-fantasy /shop/collections/favourites-2022/childrens /shop/books/favourites /shop/collections/favourites-2022/teen-and-young-adult /shop/collections/specific-audiences/teen-young-adult-books He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne'.

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