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A ŷ user asked this question about How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5):
Why does everyone love Cardan and glorify his (frankly abusive) relationship with Jude? There is definitely a difference between 'bad boys' and 'assholes', and Cardan falls into the latter for me. He's interesting, but why in the world would you have the hots for him?
Laura It's called character growth. Nobody was really comfortable with him at the end of book one, but clearly in book two, and then obviously book three, t…mǰIt's called character growth. Nobody was really comfortable with him at the end of book one, but clearly in book two, and then obviously book three, the "abuse" was not a thing. Read about childhood trauma. It should explain a lot for you. Also, he's a fictional character. People can love him in a book and never condone those behaviors in real life.

But the cool thing about opinions is that you have yours and others have theirs and it's not really nice to come at people asking how they could be so blind to whatever you have decided about his character. It's not necessary.

Reading your comments to others below, you haven't read book two or three so I'm also not sure why you would come on to this book with that comment when you seem to have no interest in finishing the series. It's a little bit of stirring the pot.(less)
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