HOW THE KING OF ELFHAME LEARNED TO HATE STORIES is a very pretty book, but that’s about it.
So long as you’re begging, he doesn’t mind. Some might think of him as a strong draught, burning the back of one’s throat, but invigorating all the same. Perhaps it’s no surprise that he turned out the way he did. Review #5 Free audio How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air #3.Once upon a time, there was a boy with a wicked tongue.īefore he was a cruel prince or a wicked king, he was a faerie child with a heart of stone.Ī prince of Faerie, nourished on cat milk and contempt, born into a family over-burdened with heirs. It is longer than a typical short story, but short for a novella. You will also see what Jude looks like, though I have to say that if Cai loves Jude as much as Cardan, she conceals it well. If you were never quite able to picture Cardan with a tail, Cai has you covered. How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories is lavishly illustrated by Rovina Cai. It is told in the third person, although exclusively from inside Cardan’s head, a very different place from the inside of Taryn’s head.Īlso, and this is a huge difference: the illustrations. Unlike other Folk of the Air books, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories is not told in the first person. And some of this book recounts the events of The Folk of the Air from Cardan’s point-of-view.įrom what I have said so far, you might think that this is a Cardan-centric version of The Lost Sisters, which shows events of The Folk of the Air from sister Taryn’s point-of-view. I had predicted that they were not the types to settle down into quiet contentment, and in that I was not wrong. Thus we get a little look at married life with Jude and Cardan. However, some of it occurs after The Queen of Nothing. Some of what is recounted here does indeed occur before The Cruel Prince. However it is not exactly that, or not only that. When I began reading, I expected a prequel to the series showing Cardan’s early life.
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