Fierce and observant Jude is utterly unaware of the currents that swirl around her. Black’s latest looks at nature and nurture and spins a tale of court intrigue, bloodshed, and a truly messed-up relationship that might be the saving of Jude and the titular prince, who, like Jude, has been shaped by the cruelties of others. Brought up among the Gentry, Jude has never felt at ease, but after a decade, Faerie has become her home despite the constant peril. Human Jude (whose brown hair curls and whose skin color is never described) both hates and loves Madoc, whose murderous nature is true to his Faerie self and who in his way loves her. Jude-broken, rebuilt, fueled by anger and a sense of powerlessness-has never recovered from watching her adoptive Faerie father murder her parents. With an interesting premise and a few likable characters, the tone remains dark and intriguing, Claudia’s present-tense narration appropriately gritty.Īlexander closes with a cliffhanger ending that leaves readers wanting more here’s hoping the world she’s built sustains multiple volumesīlack is back with another dark tale of Faerie, this one set in Faerie and launching a new trilogy.
A stranger named Declan offers her a deal that might help her escape, but can he be trusted? This debut novel reads like a video game, as it is meant to.
Her nightmares aren’t nightmares-they’re memories of a real life that exists outside the game. The world she’s living in is someone else’s game, and she’s just a character being pushed from one level to the next. Even so, she finds herself questioning her actions: Just why does she do one thing when her head is telling her to do something entirely different? It isn’t until she is knocked out by a stranger on a raid that she realizes her sixth sense is awakening to a new awareness…she’s being played. She and her crew have to fight for every scrap of food, every drop of water and whatever shelter they can find. Life in post-apocalyptic Nashville is hard. In a world where reports of violence have become all too commonplace, life is no longer about building a future it’s about surviving the day.Ĭlaudia knows something’s not right.
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