Come join us to discuss The Cruel Prince by Holly Black.

It is encouraged but not required to purchase your copy from Fable Tree Bookshop.

This book club is for young adult romantasy books, but adults and young adults are welcome to join.

Young Adult books are geared toward ages 12-18, but some books can contain more adult content—I am reading these along with you, so PLEASE make sure you check reviews to be sure you’re comfortable with the material prior to reading.

Feel free to bring a snack/drink and/or a quiet craft to work on while we talk.

Here’s the synopsis:

Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.

And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.

Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.

To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences.

As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.