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The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
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it was amazing
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** spoiler alert ** 5โ˜�

โ€œ๐˜ฝ๐™� ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช, ๐™„ ๐™–๐™ข ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง ๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™™๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š.โ€โ‹†.เณƒเฟ”*:๏ฝ�

โž� I. Love. This. Book.

Listen here and listen now, Cardan is MINE. Everyone else, get in line or GET OUT. This man got better and better with every book, genuinely.

โž� looking back on the entire trilogy, i think this one might honestly be by favorite.. while wicked king is definitely a close second, i zooooomed through this one. the pages were literally eating me alive one by one. once again, I loved Holly Blacks writing. it was beautiful world building and an enticing story.

โ€œ๐˜พ๐™ค๐™ข๐™� ๐™๐™ค๐™ข๐™š ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™จ๐™๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ข๐™š. ๐˜พ๐™ค๐™ข๐™š ๐™๐™ค๐™ข๐™š ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™›๐™ž๐™œ๐™๐™ฉ ๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ ๐™ข๐™š. ๐˜พ๐™ค๐™ข๐™š ๐™๐™ค๐™ข๐™š ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™—๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™  ๐™ข๐™ฎ ๐™๐™š๐™–๐™ง๐™ฉ, ๐™ž๐™› ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™ข๐™ช๐™จ๐™ฉ.โ€�

JUST COME HOME.

so first of all, i know cardan left EVERYONE flabbergasted in the second book. THE EXILE WAS OUT OF POCKET AND HE SHOULDA KNOWN THAT.

it legit left me shaking and quaking on the floor whilst hugging my cat pillow named Chad Dylan Cooper.

BUT THEN WE GOT THE LETTERS. THEN WE FOUND OUT THAT THIS MORON OF A MAN WAS TRYING TO GIVE HER A LOOPHOLEEEEE. yea im done.

โ€œ๐™…๐™ช๐™™๐™�, ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™˜๐™–๐™ฃ'๐™ฉ ๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ก๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™  ๐™„ ๐™™๐™ค๐™ฃ'๐™ฉ ๐™ ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฌ ๐™ž๐™ฉ'๐™จ ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช. ๐™„ ๐™ ๐™ฃ๐™š๐™ฌ ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™›๐™ง๐™ค๐™ข ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ข๐™ค๐™ข๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ก๐™ ๐™š๐™™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™—๐™ง๐™ช๐™œ๐™.โ€�

HE KNEW. HE IMMEDIATELY KNEW THAT IT WAS HER AND NOT HER OVERLY ANNOYING AND MORONIC SISTER. so this is when i closed the book and did my little white girl shuffle around the house happily. (I cannot dance, i um.. bounce)

โž� Jude, you never fail to impress me.
โž� Cardan, Iโ€™m in love with you.
โž� Taryn, we all know youโ€™re the ugly twin.
โž� Locke, glad ur dead.
โž� Madoc, YOU NEVER DESERVED THE TITLE OF FATHER. YOU CANT EVEN TELL THE TWO APART. YOUโ€™RE A LIAR AND A TRAITOR AND A DUMPSTER FIRE.
โž� Nicasia, you can stay i guess.
โž� Vivi, loved you since the start.
โž� Oak, Iโ€™m gonna love the spin off.

โ€œ๐™‰๐™�, ๐™„ ๐™ฌ๐™ค๐™ฃโ€™๐™� ๐™๐™š๐™ก๐™ฅ ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช. ๐™‰๐™ค, ๐™„ ๐™ฌ๐™ค๐™ฃโ€™๐™� ๐™๐™š๐™–๐™ง ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™š๐™ญ๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™–๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™ฌ๐™๐™ฎ ๐™„ ๐™จ๐™๐™ค๐™ช๐™ก๐™™. ๐™„๐™ฉ ๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ก๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™– ๐™ข๐™–๐™œ๐™ž๐™˜๐™–๐™ก ๐™ฌ๐™ค๐™ง๐™™: ๐™ฃ๐™ค. ๐™”๐™ค๐™ช ๐™จ๐™–๐™ฎ ๐™ฌ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง ๐™—๐™ช๐™ก๐™ก๐™จ๐™๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ฉ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™„ ๐™Ÿ๐™ช๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™จ๐™–๐™ฎ ๐™ฃ๐™ค.โ€�

AND ATE.

Cardan and Jude are my reason for waking up and getting out of bed. The king and queen of enemies to lovers. The only acceptable fae and human love story. My beloved.

WHO LET CARDAN BECOME THE ULTIMATE RIZZ MASTER (i hate myself for this sentence)

โ€œ๐™„๐™ฉโ€™๐™� ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™„ ๐™ก๐™ค๐™ซ๐™š,โ€� ๐™๐™š ๐™จ๐™–๐™ฎ๐™จ. โ€œ๐™� ๐™จ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ ๐™ข๐™ช๐™˜๐™ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ข๐™ฎ ๐™ก๐™ž๐™›๐™š ๐™œ๐™ช๐™–๐™ง๐™™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ข๐™ฎ ๐™๐™š๐™–๐™ง๐™ฉ. ๐™„ ๐™œ๐™ช๐™–๐™ง๐™™๐™š๐™™ ๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™จ๐™ค ๐™ฌ๐™š๐™ก๐™ก ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™„ ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ช๐™ก๐™™ ๐™—๐™š๐™๐™–๐™ซ๐™š ๐™–๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ค๐™ช๐™œ๐™ ๐™„ ๐™™๐™ž๐™™๐™ฃโ€™๐™� ๐™๐™–๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™–๐™ก๐™ก. ๐™€๐™ซ๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฌ, ๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™– ๐™จ๐™๐™–๐™—๐™—๐™ฎ, ๐™ฌ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ข-๐™š๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ฃ, ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™จ๐™˜๐™–๐™—๐™ง๐™ค๐™ช๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ. ๐˜ฝ๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ง๐™จ.โ€� ๐™ƒ๐™š ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ก๐™ ๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™™๐™ค๐™ค๐™ง ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ฎ๐™–๐™ก ๐™˜๐™๐™–๐™ข๐™—๐™š๐™ง๐™จ, ๐™–๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ค๐™ช๐™œ๐™ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง๐™จ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ. โ€œ๐™”๐™ค๐™� ๐™ฅ๐™ง๐™ค๐™—๐™–๐™—๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™œ๐™ช๐™š๐™จ๐™จ๐™š๐™™ ๐™–๐™จ ๐™ข๐™ช๐™˜๐™,โ€� ๐™๐™š ๐™จ๐™–๐™ฎ๐™จ. โ€œ๐˜ฝ๐™ช๐™� ๐™Ÿ๐™ช๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™˜๐™–๐™จ๐™š ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™™๐™ž๐™™๐™ฃโ€™๐™�.โ€�

โ€œ๐™๐™๐™ž๐™� ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ข๐™ฎ ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ค๐™ข,โ€� ๐™๐™š ๐™ฅ๐™ค๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™จ ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฉ, ๐™–๐™›๐™›๐™ง๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™™. โ€œ๐˜ผ๐™ฃ๐™� ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉโ€™๐™� ๐™ข๐™ฎ ๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™›๐™š.โ€�
โ€œ๐™Ž๐™� ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™ ๐™š๐™š๐™ฅ ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ก๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š,โ€� ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐˜ฝ๐™ค๐™ข๐™— ๐™จ๐™–๐™ฎ๐™จ. โ€œ๐˜ฝ๐™ช๐™� ๐™„ ๐™–๐™ข ๐™œ๐™ค๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ ๐™š ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™๐™š๐™ง ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™˜๐™๐™š๐™จ, ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™„ ๐™™๐™ค๐™ฃโ€™๐™� ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™  ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™˜๐™ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ.โ€�
โ€œ๐™Š๐™�, ๐™„ ๐™™๐™ค๐™ฃโ€™๐™� ๐™ ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฌ,โ€� ๐™„ ๐™จ๐™–๐™ฎ. โ€œ๐™ˆ๐™–๐™ฎ๐™—๐™� ๐™๐™šโ€™๐™� ๐™ก๐™ž๐™ ๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™๐™š๐™–๐™ง ๐™ข๐™š ๐™จ๐™˜๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ข.โ€�

โ€œ๐˜ฟ๐™� ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ช๐™˜๐™ ๐™๐™š๐™ง."
๐˜ผ ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง๐™ง๐™ž๐™—๐™ก๐™š ๐™จ๐™ž๐™ก๐™š๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š ๐™›๐™ค๐™ก๐™ก๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™จ. ๐™„ ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง ๐™๐™ž๐™ข ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ฅ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š ๐™Ÿ๐™ช๐™™๐™œ๐™š๐™ข๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ ๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™ข๐™š. ๐™’๐™๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง ๐™๐™š ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ข๐™ข๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™๐™จ ๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™ก๐™ก ๐™—๐™š ๐™™๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š. ๐™ƒ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ฅ๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™š๐™ง ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™–๐™—๐™จ๐™ค๐™ก๐™ช๐™ฉ๐™š. ๐™„ ๐™™๐™ค๐™ฃ'๐™ฉ ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™๐™–๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™š๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™ฉ๐™ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™›๐™ž๐™œ๐™๐™ฉ ๐™—๐™–๐™˜๐™ .
"๐™’๐™๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง ๐™˜๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™ข๐™š๐™–๐™ฃ?" ๐™๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™๐™–๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™จ๐™–๐™ฎ๐™จ. "๐™Ž๐™๐™š'๐™จ-"
"๐™Ž๐™๐™š ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ข๐™ฎ ๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™›๐™š," ๐˜พ๐™–๐™ง๐™™๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™จ๐™–๐™ฎ๐™จ, ๐™๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ซ๐™ค๐™ž๐™˜๐™š ๐™˜๐™–๐™ง๐™ง๐™ฎ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ค๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™˜๐™ง๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™™.
"๐™๐™๐™š ๐™ง๐™ž๐™œ๐™๐™ฉ๐™›๐™ช๐™ก ๐™ƒ๐™ž๐™œ๐™ ๐™Œ๐™ช๐™š๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™€๐™ก๐™›๐™๐™–๐™ข๐™š. ๐˜ผ๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ข๐™ค๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™™๐™š๐™›๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™š๐™ญ๐™ž๐™ก๐™š.โ€�

I feel like it was very apparent that Cardan loved Jude, so Jude being ready to risk it all just for Cardan was amazing. It set in stone that the love went both ways, theyโ€™d die for each other and kill for each other.

Anyway. I remember crying for hours about the world of elfame coming to an end, and then I found out that the author was writing a spin off about Oak and some blue girl whoโ€™s name Iโ€™ll remember at some point. I will in fact read the spin off solely for Jude and Cardan!

๐™„ ๐™ง๐™–๐™ž๐™จ๐™š ๐™– ๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™–๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™˜ ๐™œ๐™ก๐™–๐™จ๐™จ. โ€œ๐™๐™� ๐™›๐™–๐™ข๐™ž๐™ก๐™ฎ.โ€�
โ€œ๐˜ผ๐™ฃ๐™� ๐™๐™–๐™š๐™ง๐™ž๐™š๐™ก๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™,โ€� ๐™จ๐™–๐™ฎ๐™จ ๐™๐™–๐™ง๐™ฎ๐™ฃ, ๐™ง๐™–๐™ž๐™จ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™๐™š๐™ง๐™จ.
โ€œ๐˜ผ๐™ฃ๐™� ๐™ฅ๐™ž๐™ฏ๐™ฏ๐™–,โ€� ๐™จ๐™–๐™ฎ๐™จ ๐™Š๐™–๐™ .
โ€œ๐˜ผ๐™ฃ๐™� ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ž๐™š๐™จ,โ€� ๐™จ๐™–๐™ฎ๐™จ ๐™ƒ๐™š๐™–๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ง.
โ€œ๐˜ผ๐™ฃ๐™� ๐™ฃ๐™š๐™ฌ ๐™—๐™š๐™œ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™จ,โ€� ๐™จ๐™–๐™ฎ๐™จ ๐™‘๐™ž๐™ซ๐™ž.
๐˜พ๐™–๐™ง๐™™๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™จ๐™ข๐™ž๐™ก๐™š๐™จ, ๐™๐™ž๐™จ ๐™œ๐™–๐™ฏ๐™š ๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™ข๐™š. โ€œ๐˜ผ๐™ฃ๐™� ๐™จ๐™˜๐™๐™š๐™ข๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™œ๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™จ๐™˜๐™๐™š๐™ข๐™š๐™จ.โ€�
๐™๐™ค ๐™›๐™–๐™ข๐™ž๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™๐™–๐™š๐™ง๐™ž๐™š๐™ก๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ฅ๐™ž๐™ฏ๐™ฏ๐™– ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ž๐™š๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ฃ๐™š๐™ฌ ๐™—๐™š๐™œ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™จ๐™˜๐™๐™š๐™ข๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™œ๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™จ๐™˜๐™๐™š๐™ข๐™š๐™จ. ๐™„ ๐™˜๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™–๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ.

here lies Lyla, still recovering from this trilogy being over.

P.S. Iโ€™m gonna dance on lockes grave
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Reading Progress

January 3, 2023 – Shelved
January 5, 2023 – Started Reading
January 5, 2023 –
page 30
9.35%
January 5, 2023 –
page 167
52.02%
January 5, 2023 –
page 231
71.96%
January 5, 2023 – Finished Reading
February 27, 2024 – Shelved as: favorites
May 1, 2024 – Shelved as: fantasy

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Cali Howdy Lieluh, ๐Ÿค 

Your review was beautiful; nothing embarrassing about it. Thereโ€™s no need for explaining your reasons since they are self explanatory. Really looking forward to read this book!

The one and only,
Moncali


message 2: by Zoe (new) - rated it 4 stars

Zoe your reviews are so GOOD. LYLA HOW DO YOU DO IT? teach me your ways. this one was also my favorite!!


Lyla YEAAAA RIGHT ZOO ZOO I LOVE UR REVIEWS


justine โŠน เฃช ห– HUGS HUGS. this review is so adorable. itโ€™s so hard to say goodbye to this series ๐Ÿฅบ๐Ÿ’•


Lyla TY JUSTINE ๐Ÿฉต i canโ€™t believe that eventually the world of Elfame will come to an end, itโ€™s so sad โ˜น๏ธ


Lyla @Emily I HAVE OAKS BOOKS, I HAVENT READ THEM YET THOOO IM SO EXCITED.


skye (cardanโ€™s ver.) ๊ฉœ .แŸ [semi-hiatus] the angst ans then the fluff omg >>>> THIS REVIEW IS AMAZINF literally the best >>


Lyla TYSM SKYE (i love ur name.)


Bella off hiatus I love this review!


message 10: by Lyla (new) - rated it 5 stars

Lyla thank you Bella ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿซถ


Myles (semi hiatus) nice review!


kendyl สšโ™กโƒ›ษž eeee bestie your reviews are gorg and i love them


ฒิดวรฉณพพฑฑ๐ gorgeous review as always ๐Ÿ’ž๐Ÿ’ž๐Ÿ’ž


message 14: by Lyla (new) - rated it 5 stars

Lyla TY GUYS YOURE ALL SO KIND


lj โ™ก aaa lyla i love this review sm!!


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