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fattazzcat · 3 years

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TFOTA Short Review (More like Rant so if you don't agree with my opinion then that is completely understandable ❤)

ACTUALLY, IT’S A RANT SO TURN BACK AROUND BECAUSE I DON’T LIKE THE SERIES

INTENSE RANT REVIEW

I just want to say that this book series is...uncanny and idiosyncratic in both good and bad ways.

The book series was fine with its cool looking fae because I was tired of seeing those white/tan broody, cishet and pointy-eared people (Cardan is that but I'm just going to let his tail be the exception)

The worldbuilding is fine, the plot is fine, the plottwist was a really quick turn, the pacing is fine but the trope with the love interest is not fine. The damaged, abusive, bad boy Cardan Greenbriar gets on my nerves because I didn't like the way the fandom just excuses his bad actions towards Jude (since the first book) because of his dark history.

And I don't care what letters Cardan wanted to let her read but didn't. Cardan just didn't have enough book time to work with an emotional connection with Jude except just pure...lust. I apologize but that's how it just looks like, and besides them being enemies seemed like those elementary bullies we once had but way worse and I don't like to just excuse someone's inhumane behavior because of their abused past.

Jude Duarte is written well.

But Cardan not being in the books would've been way better because no offense but Holly Black made him look like a teen who has severe mommy issues and just takes out on this physically violent girl. The dagger scene in book one did nothing to me because the way they are enemies and the way they are attracted to one another is just weird and messed up. But of course, it's still enemies to lovers because hey! They tell each other they hate each other, he tells her that she's hideous and that hey! They want to kill each other for no valid reason! 😐

This book series is not for everyone but I just hope that this kind of book series won't repeat because I'm this 👌close to burning the Cruel Princes series I have when someone says they are goals because their romance turns into violence.

Like he humiliated Jude for a decade, constantly demeans her with insults, just stands and watches while his friends try to harm her and abuse her, shoves her, slaps her, pulls her hair, and threatens her but hey! "He's a prince and he's hot and had a dramatic past so let's just ignore that uwu 😚"

Jude says so many times that he hates him but this bitch will surely break down once he tells her that he finds her attractive. And that makes sense since he has mommy and daddy issues and this girl is just touch-deprived to the bone.

Then Cardan tells her that he hates her because he can't stop thinking about her and that disgusts him. In my POV that seems like a man that finds his attraction to her disgusting then becomes the love interest. I just hope that this romanticization of relationships from men whose so-called "love" is joined by cruelty, humiliation, and hate will end after 2021 and until the Universe dies. And in my POV of Taryn justifying his actions by saying that faeries love differently than mortals and that their love is a test blah blah blah blah shut up 😐

The worse than he treats the main character the more she's enthralled by him but of course, this behavior is overlooked because of his swagger, good looks, and the fact that lusts after her. Like Jude doesn't care about whatever horrible things or actions he does towards her but as long as he finds her attractive and handsome she has complete power over her.

Their relationship throughout the series is just abusive in my POV because cruelty does not equal secret affection. Like this is the kind of boy that our mothers told us that if he pulls our hair it means that they like us and when we grow up we find out that behavior is fucking immature.

Seriously guys? But it's fine because we'll never know what it's like to have someone loathe you before now tell you that they love you even when their actions don't match up with what they say. Sounds like an abusive relationship eh? But it's alright since he's hot and he's the love interest right?

Wrong, so feel free to continue making fan arts and fanfics because I'll just keep my opinions with because everyone seems to like it and I'll probably get death threats and countless 14-year-old stans explaining to me why their love team is the epitome of YA.

Jude deserves so much better because she is so ambitious and so brave she deserved to be courted by a man that is kind, loving, compassionate, supportrtive and one thing that Cardan lacks which is MATURITY.

Anyways I apologize for promising that this will be a short rant review so I'll stop now. But I hope you get it 💛 Because I'm sick of overhyped books romanticizing things that aren't love. After all, if a man hurts you intentionally, that is not love. Abuse and love cannot coexist. Jude and Cardan just follows the cycle of abuse and I hope I'm not being delusional to be the only one who doesn't like the book series and should just dissipate like the Mortal Instruments. But if you like the book series that's good and I respect your likes babe! Like if you're a stan and you're reading this I have no grudge towards you and ily 💜

Anyways buona giornata 💛💛💛

#rant review #toxic relationship #book review #fantasy #anti jurdan?#is this anti tfota?#literally anti #please don't send death threats #just my opinion #i love you stans #just not the series #book rant #the cruel prince rant

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slightlyrebelliouswriter23 · 4 years

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hi i’m rereading the cruel prince bc. i love it and i jsut read this line that was like “three is an odd configuration of sisters. one is always on the outside” and idk if u have siblings but i have a bro and a sis n they like each other way more than me n that line rly just got to me. i swear every time i think abt this series or reread it i fall in love w another part of it. anyways i don’t have anyone else to tell this to so u get to know bc u post abt it lol. i love jude n that line 🥺

hi there, nonnie!

gosh i can't even describe how happy it makes me that you thought of me when you needed to gush about tfota 🥰🖤 an honour. also rereading tcp is PERFECTLY UNDERSTANDABLE (and encouraged by this blog).

i remember that line!! i only have one brother, but i think it stuck with me because i have two friends who i've known since i was in diapers and are basically sisters to me. i know it's not the same thing really, but i feel like i can relate to at least a shadow of what it must feel like to have two siblings. and i can definitely relate to feeling on the outside when it comes to them.

idk i think there's something about having people who care about you, but not as much as they should or could, that makes life feel incredibly lonely sometimes. i think both jude and cardan feel this deeply, and imo, it's part of what makes them a perfect pair- they understand each other's loneliness.

the thing i love about jude is that she doesn't let her "third-wheelness" stop her from loving her sisters fiercely, wholly. jude would do a n y t h i n g to protect them. which is probably why taryn's betrayals cut so deep, and why jude gets so angry at vivi's obliviousness when it comes to mortal safety.

when it comes down to it, jude's energy is not quite reciprocated by her sisters. and that smarts a little. but in the long haul, it doesn't matter. jude knows she's completely incapable of shallow love. she's either all in and in the deep end, or out of the water completely. if anything, this is probably why the idea of loving cardan scared her so much in the beginning- she was afraid she'd be consumed by it.

anyways, one of the great things about rereading is falling in love with things you didn't notice before. and i'm so glad you found this gem of a line again, bc it's beautiful and poignant and true. this was all a very long winded way of saying: the point is love of any kind and also we stan jude duarte 😌🖤💫

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