Review: The Wicked King

The Wicked King by Holly Black
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Okay I see why this book was rated so high now! This series is such a manipulative political coup!

The hype yes yes, the hype made me disappointed me the first half of the book.
Midway through I was thinking of giving this book a strong 3/5 stars. It was good, very nice poetic writing with all its magical fairytale medievalness glory.
But the second half and especially the last quarter was actually really really good!

It's not often that I'm wrong about an ending and this was one of those moments!

I'm glad this book is nominated for the Goodreads 2019 Choice Awards ;)

Can't wait to read the next one.

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I thought it was so nice that Cardan asked Jude to be his queen... I've been guiltily crushing on Cardan throughout this series (and so has Jude lol) and I've been waiting for the moment when they made it official (and she really was too)... so I wanted this to be true so bad I was blind sided just like Jude was lol genius...

I didn't really like the fact that Cardan didn't even seem to flinch when he heard that Balekin was dead, I would have thought some type of emotion would have been expressed.

I enjoyed the whole underwater torture section. Brought to light the other "world" and introduced new characters.

I find Madoc, Taryn and Locke boring.

I was hoping Oak was going to have a much bigger part in the book but i guess because he's so young, maybe in the next book when Jude tries to come back to Elfane
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