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The Folk of the Air is a YA fantasy trilogy by Holly Black and set in the same universe as Modern Faerie Tales. The books in the trilogy are The Cruel Prince, The Wicked King, and The Queen of Nothing.Jude and her twin Taryn are ordinary human girls whose life is forever altered when their parents are murdered by their mother's first husband. The faerie who killed their parents in order to have revenge and reclaim his heir, their older sister, takes responsibility for the children he orphaned, taking Jude and her sister back with him to Elfhame.Growing up a human in the world of faeries, Jude has lived her life as an underdog who keeps her head down to avoid it being chopped off, and is sick of living in fear. In particular, she is sick of being the punching bag of the local bully, Prince Cardan, the cruel youngest son of the soon-to-abdicate king, who singles out her in particular when looking for someone to put down.She aims to turn her life around by securing whatever power she can, and in doing so throws herself into the heart of a battle for control over the future of the crown.In November 2020, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories, a Cardan-centric novella was released. Part sequel, part prequel the novella centers around Cardan, exploring aspects of his past and bearing a small snipit of Cardan and Jude after The Queen of Nothing when Bryern summons Jude to the mortal realm for a job.In June 2022 Holly Black announced a new duology staring Oak and Queen Suren of the Court of Teeth. The first book, The Stolen Heir, was released January 3rd, 2023. | |
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Madness Mantra | |
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Madness Mantra: What Jude thinks she's found when she finds Cardan's diary with pages of just her name written over and over and over in all capital letters. It's seen again in the final letter of the Barnes and Noble edition of Queen of Nothing's exclusive "Cardan's Letters to Jude" where the pages are stained with ink from his frantic writing◊, giving it a desperate and unhinged look. | |
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Rescue Romance | |
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Rescue Romance: Bomb is in love with Roach, partly because he saved her from the Court of Teeth when she was held prisoner. Inferred and possibly one-sided, but in Queen of Nothing, Jude takes notice several times that Larkin Gorm Garrett, AKA the Ghost is looking longingly at Taryn throughout the book after she helps him hide from Madoc and stops him from killing Cardan. It's implied the two got to know each other when Ghost was working for Locke, though whether anything comes from it is left open. | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family Jude’s family consists of her identical twin who lets her be bullied and duped in a bid to marry into status, a fae half-sister who does not fully appreciate how much danger her sisters are in, an adoptive fae father who murdered her real parents and still raised her with enough care that she can’t help but acknowledge him as somewhat of a father figure, his second wife who makes no secret of disliking her, and a younger step brother who is secretly royalty and also the biological younger brother of the man Jude’s sister is about to marry. The royal family is a mess of siblings sabotaging one another for the throne, having affairs with their father’s consorts and then murdering the evidence, manipulating their father to try and make him abdicate faster, and beating on or otherwise completely ignoring Cardan because he’s the designated family punching bag. Without getting into any of Cardan’s issues. Bonus points for Cardan’s mom only ever noticing him to laugh when he misbehaves. | |
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Alcohol-Induced Idiocy | |
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Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: With his life in jeopardy and everyone searching for him in a bid to secure the next king’s favor, Cardan is casually wandering the palace with a wine glass that he’s too drunk to notice he’s holding sideways. | |
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Little Bit Beastly | |
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Little Bit Beastly: Each member of the royal family has some animal part somewhere on their body, which while normal in common faeries, is unusual for the Gentry (noble), they have it because as the house of Greenbriar they are all descendants of Mab, the first queen who unified the Seelie, Unseelie and Wild Fey under her rule; she had a horned consort, and it's because of their union that despite being Gentry they all have some animal part: Dain is mentioned to have hooves and the hind legs of a deer. Balekin has thorn-like spikes in each knuckle and along his arms. Cardan has a tail, that he keeps hidden most of the time. Oak has tiny horns, which was one of the hints of his heritage. | |
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Immortal Procreation Clause | |
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Immortal Procreation Clause: One of the reasons humans, while seen as lowly creatures by the Folk, are also a necessity is due to faeries' low birth rate. Humans serve not just as wives, but also as midwives and even wet nurses for the near-infertile faeries. It's to the point that most fairy households would be satisfied with having one child in their lifetime, and anything more is seen as lucky. | |
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Green-Eyed Monster | |
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Green-Eyed Monster: One of Cardan’s reasons for hating Jude is that her family is kind to her. In How the King of Elfhame learned to hate Stories, it's revealed that Cardan and company started picking on Jude and Taryn specifically because of Locke dumping Nicasia for one of them (though she doesn't know which). Nicasia asks for Cardan's help in making the twins' lives miserable out of envy, and he agrees because he also feels envious at the thought that Jude might be the one Locke is interested in. Jude in general feels this way about fairies, longing to be like them: immortal and beautiful. Taryn feels this way about Jude, when Locke seems to be taken by her defiance of Cardan. Nicasia is so upset that Cardan has moved on from her that in The Wicked King, she tries to assassinate one of his assorted lovers at an orgy. | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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Alpha Bitch: Nicasia is the girl bully in Cardan's group who delights in tearing people apart verbally (while Valerian and Cardan do it physically). Her mother is the bloodthirsty queen of the ocean, and it's revealed in How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories that Nicasia hates everything and everyone on land, and so desires to gain power and crush everyone beneath her heel. Even cuckolding Cardan and breaking his heart was a way of gaining power over him, though she comes to regret it later and wants him back. | |
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Identical Twin Mistake | |
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Identical Twin Mistake: The faeries are not good in general at telling Jude and Taryn apart. Jude is mistaken for Taryn even when acting in distinctly un-Taryn-like ways. Taryn starts taking advantage of this and the fact that faeries don't automatically suspect outright lies in order to walk around claiming to be Jude. Interestingly, despite having raised them, even Madoc took longer than it should have to figure it out. However, Cardan picked it up right away. | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Most of The Fair Folk who act nice are actually this. Also Taryn to an extent; she acts like The Dutiful Daughter to Oriana and Madoc and a Proper Lady to most fey, but her many betrayals of Jude's trust reveals that she can be as scheming and backstabbing as the rest of them. | |
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Offing the Offspring | |
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Offing the Offspring: Attempted by Dain on account of an omen that he won’t be king if his child lives. | |
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Small Name, Big Ego | |
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Small Name, Big Ego: Locke considers himself a grand creator of stories, but he's really just a creep who likes scandal. Even his time as Master of Revels in The Wicked King mostly involves being a thorn in Cardan and Jude's side. Even when he's killed, the inquisition into his murder is pretty half-hearted. | |
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Fantastic Drug | |
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Fantastic Drug: The Faerie Fruit works like this for mortals, when they eat it they become very complacent and it's easy to make them do anything for another taste of it. | |
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Succession Crisis | |
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Succession Crisis: Averted at first, since Eldred has the exceptional luck (for someone of the Folk) to have six possible heirs for the crown, with Dain being the favored one to become the next High King, then played straight when Eldred, and four of the siblings are murdered at Dain's coronation party, leaving only Balekin and Cardan. Because of Royal Blood magic, one can only be crowned by a member of the family, meaning that the party ends with barely the exact number of people needed to crown a new king. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: Cardan proves to be far more book-smart and politically savvy than Jude gave him credit for. She also learns near the end of the series that he secretly liked mortals and frequently helped glamoured human servants escape before Jude even learned he liked her. | |
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | |
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Dain is told that if his child lives, he will never be king. Attempting to murder his unborn child by poisoning the mother succeeds in killing only the mother. The child ends up in the hands of Madoc who, having his hands on a secret member of the royal family and aware of Dain’s depravity, decides to shift loyalties, resulting in Dain’s murder just as he was about to be king. Jude’s mother is told that her child would alter the fate of the faerie world. Thinking it to be about Vivienne, she fakes her death and flees back to the mortal world. It’s suggested that the prophecy was actually about Jude, who was only born because her mother ran away from Madoc and remarried a human. | |
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Proper Lady | |
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Proper Lady: Orianna (the Duarte sisters' stepmom) is this through and through. Taryn also grows into this after marrying Locke. | |
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Muggle in Mage Custody | |
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Muggle in Mage Custody: The faerie Madoc takes the two human girls Jude and Taryn whom he orphaned and raises them as his own (together with his wife Oriana). | |
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Then Let Me Be Evil | |
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Then Let Me Be Evil: The reason why Cardan got his reputation. When he was a child, his brother Dain dared him to shoot a walnut off a glamoured mortal's head. Instinct told Cardan to stay his hand because he felt it wasn't sporting and something was off that day. Dain then shot Cardan's arrow and told it as if Cardan had been the one to shoot the mortal. From that day on, with his mother getting punished in his stead and being given to an abusive brother, Cardan decided to be the monster that everyone thought he was. Jude also decides this after Dain approaches her to be his spy. Trying to be the good, meek, fearful little mortal everyone wanted her to be never got Cardan or his Gang of Bullies to leave her alone, and appealing to her father's sense of honor to become a Knight of Elfhame didn't get her the title, so she decides that she might as well become a ruthless spy and assassin to seize power by force if she can't gain love or respect from the fey willingly. | |
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No Such Thing as Alien Pop Culture | |
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No Such Thing as Alien Pop Culture: The first chapter consists of one line explaining that Faerie has no fish sticks, ketchup or television. | |
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Big Brother Bully | |
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Big Brother Bully: It was Dain who barred Cardan from living in the palace, and the only sibling willing to take him in, Balekin, enjoys beating and belittling him. | |
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Loving Bully | |
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Loving Bully: Unlike most examples, this is fully played for drama and Jude is in utter disbelief when Cardan admits his attraction to her. | |
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Mind Game Ship | |
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Mind Game Ship: Locke’s favorite kind. Subverted for Jude and Cardan in the second book. She's convinced they're in this as she slowly admits she likes him and keeps trying to stay one step ahead of his games lest he mess with or betray her. It isn't until the third book that she learns Cardan often went along with her whims because he wanted her to trust him, because he sincerely liked her. | |
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Polar Opposite Twins: While not exact opposites, there are notable differences in Taryn and Jude's personalities. Taryn relies more on her appeal to get ahead while avoiding confrontations, while Jude prefers picking fights and seizing power for herself in order to get ahead with minimal reliance on others. Taryn also acts more selfishly while Jude, though not selfless, is more likely to act with the well-being of others in mind. | |
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Wrong Guy First | |
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Wrong Guy First: Locke is played up as the member of Cardan’s posse with less stomach for cruelty who takes a shine to Jude and gets her to drop her guard. Too bad he’s really into scandal and seduced her just to form a rift between her and Taryn. | |
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Et Tu, Brute? | |
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Et Tu, Brute?: There are a lot, considering this is a book series about the fair folk, it's to be expected though: In The Cruel Prince: The most shocking one: Madoc betrays both High King Eldred and Prince Dain, for the possibility of either having a bloodthirsty king who would bring more wars, or putting his own child as a child king he could easily influence as a regent for the sake of the exact same outcome. Taryn towards Jude Because she knew that Locke was dating both her and her sister and not only did nothing about it, but agreed to be complicit for the sake of marrying Locke when he finally aknowlodged her as being capable of being like one of the Folk. Jude herself does this to Cardan, she convinced him of swearing an oath of obedience to her for a whole year in exchange of promising him that if he helped her have Oak crowned he would be able to walk away from Court, she instead had Oak crowning him so he would basically be a puppet king for her. In The Wicked King: The Ghost pulls this on Jude, by aiding the minions of Queen Orlagh to abduct her which eventually lead to her being made prisoner and tortured, his reasoning? Because he served Prince Dain, not her. This time Madoc and Taryn do this to Jude, after Madoc discovers that Jude has Cardan bound by an oath, he convinced Taryn to go an pose as her to him to command him, so he can take control of a good chunk of his army and presumably take over Elfhame. Cardan towards Jude, he convinced her to release him from his oath and then to marry her to strengthen the crown, only to humiliate her in front of his entire court by exiling her of Faerie while she screams that she is the Queen of Faerie and he simply ignores her. Granted Jude killed Balekin even after he asked him not to, and he was practically surrendering, but he basically had her dumped back in the mortal world by herself and it's mentioned she had to walk a long way under the rain before she found Vivi. | |
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Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain | |
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Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain: The series features a Big Bad Duumvirate between The Evil Prince Balekin Greenbriar and Colonel Kilgore General Madoc. Balekin is a slimy, smug piece of crap who slaughters his own family with glee and would gladly sacrifice his own people if it meant he could get the crown. In contrast, while Madoc enjoys war and conflict, he sincerely cares about the land of Elfhame, loves his children, and even takes his defeat very well. | |
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At Least I Admit It | |
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At Least I Admit It: Jude learns near the end of The Cruel Prince that Dain is just as bad as Balekin and both are worse than Cardan. Despite Cardan being singled out as the worst of Eldred's children, he's proven to be more ethical than his brothers behind closed doors, and is only viewed as the worst because he didn't bother to hide his vices like them. (And acted out to get attention.) Jude calls Taryn out on this near the end of the first book and the start of the third. While Taryn acts like a The Dutiful Daughter and a Proper Lady, she can be just as scheming and backstabbing as Jude, if not more-so since family isn't off limits to her the way it is for Jude. Jude points out both times that at least she owns her treachery and ambition. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
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Fantastic Racism: Faeries have little respect for humans. | |
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Glamour | |
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Glamour: Yet another staple given that it's a series about The Fair Folk, the ability allows faeries to mind-control humans, or cast illusions for them, but special mentions goes to the fact that Elfhame does have certain regulations to deal with mortals, and while there are humans who are glamoured into being treated as slaves while thinking they're somewhere else; most are treated better and usually in a one-time and being paid very generously for their services, they're just glamoured to not know who or where they were working with. | |
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Royal Blood | |
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Royal Blood: It's mentioned early on that the Blood Crown of the High King is enchanted so that a new king can only be crowned by a someone from the Greenbriar line, who are descended from Queen Mab who unified Elfhame under her rule. This becomes relevant in The Cruel Prince after the entirety of the royal family is murdered minus Balekin and Cardan, meaning that the former needs the latter to become king, and becomes the most searched person after the bloodbath that was the coronation party, and then we find out about Oak | |
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Lima Syndrome | |
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Lima Syndrome: Madoc grew to love Jude and Taryn as his own daughters, despite murdering their parents and dragging them to Faerie against their will due to his own sense of honor and responsibility. Orianna remarks at one point that he is completely "besotted" with them. | |
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Hidden Backup Prince | |
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The most shocking one: Madoc betrays both High King Eldred and Prince Dain, for the possibility of either having a bloodthirsty king who would bring more wars, or putting his own child as a child king he could easily influence as a regent for the sake of the exact same outcome. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: Taryn is wrong to betray Jude as many times as she does, though at the end of The Cruel Prince she rightly points out that Jude chose to keep antagonizing Cardan and his Gang of Bullies no matter how many times Taryn begged her not to, even after Cardan started targeting Taryn just for being Jude's sister, as Jude didn't seem to care at the time that her continued defiance would hurt her sister too. | |
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And the Adventure Continues | |
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Inferred and possibly one-sided, but in Queen of Nothing, Jude takes notice several times that Larkin Gorm Garrett, AKA the Ghost is looking longingly at Taryn throughout the book after she helps him hide from Madoc and stops him from killing Cardan. It's implied the two got to know each other when Ghost was working for Locke, though whether anything comes from it is left open. | |
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Rebel Prince | |
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Rebel Prince: By the end of the series, Oak completely rejects his role in Jude's plan as prince and future king, prefering instead of grow up in the mortal realm. | |
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Massive Numbered Siblings | |
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Massive Numbered Siblings: Cardan is the youngest of six. This is very unusual for fairies and is seen as a ‘vulgar fortune.’ | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension | |
| The Folk of the Air / int_75d6bf40 | comment |
Belligerent Sexual Tension: Between Jude and Cardan, to the point that it's hard to tell at times if they're using 'hate' as a synonym for 'love'. | |
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What Does She See in Him? | |
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What Does She See in Him?: After Locke reveals his true nature to Jude, she and Madoc both wonder why Taryn still likes him, since he's proven to be nothing but a selfish cad who uses and discards people for his own amusement. | |
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Raised by Rival | |
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Raised by Rival: The protagonist, Jude, and her sisters Taryn and Vivienne, are raised by the man who killed their mother and father (or stepfather, in Vivienne's case). | |
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Shared Universe | |
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Shared Universe: Takes place in the same world as Modern Faerie Tales. | |
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Logical Weakness | |
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Logical Weakness: Faeries cannot lie, and most never have a real conversation with people who can. As a result, they just don't know what to do with Blatant Lies. A completely untrue statement (for instance, Taryn saying "I'm Jude") will fool a faerie more easily than a skillful half-truth. | |
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Interspecies Romance | |
| The Folk of the Air / int_8485d41a | comment |
Interspecies Romance: Jude and Cardan Locke and Jude/Taryn Vivi and Heather Madoc and Jude's mother, although it fell apart before the story began. | |
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The Fair Folk | |
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The Fair Folk: The book series. | |
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Self-Poisoning Gambit | |
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Self-Poisoning Gambit: Jude pretends to poison herself in a bid to ‘confirm’ that Balekin’s antidote is the real deal, tricking him into giving her a dose that she then spits into a vial for Cardan. | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
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Didn't Think This Through: The supplemental material reveals that after banishing Jude, Carden missed her. He wrote letters inviting her back to Faerie. Besides the fact that it took him a few letters to realize that he didn't revoke the banishment, he doesn't have her address or a means of reaching Vivienne's place. In the main book series, Jude tells Carden she never got his letters, for those reasons. On top of that, in the main series it becomes clear that, while he may have pardoned her in the letters to get her to come home, he didn't tell anyone else that she was pardoned; when she's discovered in the royal palace attempting to prevent Carden's assassination, the guards there are ready to kill her on sight. | |
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Glamour Failure | |
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Glamour Failure: As part of her pledging her service to Prince Dain, Jude asks protection from being controlled by any glamour, which he concedes, with the sole exception of him. This gift last even beyond Dain's death. | |
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Karmic Death | |
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Karmic Death: After Locke used, neglected, and played mind games with Taryn for so long, she finally snapped and stabbed him in the throat, so he would finally be quiet. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: In a fit of spite and wounded pride, Madoc killed his wife and her new husband in front of their daughter and his stepkids before essentially kidnapping the little ones and adopting them all. Vivienne, his only full-blooded daughter, said nuts to that and ran back to the mortal world as soon as she was old enough. The trilogy ends with Jude sentencing him to live in the mortal realm for the rest of his days; Vivienne and Oak are willing to tolerate him at least. | |
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Heel Realization | |
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Heel Realization: Cardan doesn't react well in Queen of Nothing when he and Jude reunite after she nearly dies saving him from an assassin. Jude calls him out for the exile and thinking they were cool. He honestly told her that he used Exact Words to exile her and then revoke the banishment at the same time, but no one picked up on it, including Jude. Cardan hadn't realized that he hurt Jude's feelings, her pride, and her trust in him all at once. He said he wasn't sure she was capable of being broken. To top it all off, when attempting to send letters of reconciliation, he took a while to revoke the banishment and didn't know how mortal mail worked. Needless to say, Cardan is disappointed and kicking himself when Jude says of course she didn't trust him because you can't trust the Folk. | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
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"Not So Different" Remark: Everyone considers Jude and Taryn Polar Opposite Twins, given Jude's conniving ruthlessness and Taryn being a Proper Lady. However, Jude learns the hard way in The Cruel Prince and The Wicked King that her sister can be as conniving and backstabbing as her. In The Queen of Nothing, Jude and Madoc are impressed to learn Taryn killed her husband Locke, since they thought only Jude capable of doing something like that. They also laugh that Locke's fatal mistake was assuming his wife was less like her sister than he thought. | |
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Ladykiller in Love | |
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Ladykiller in Love: Downplayed. Cardan has had many lovers and orgies before, but he falls for the comparatively chaste Jude. And happily commits to her at the end of the series. | |
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The Family That Slays Together | |
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The Family That Slays Together: Madoc’s take on things. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Oak has tiny horns, which was one of the hints of his heritage. | |
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Ambition Is Evil | |
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Ambition Is Evil: Most travesties committed by Madoc, Dain, Balekin, and Jude is due to their ambitious lust for power. Cardan, for all his faults, lacks this vice. | |
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Land of Faerie | |
| The Folk of the Air / int_9ee0d3eb | comment |
Land of Faerie: Unlike the author previous series, this one takes place almost exclusively on Faerie, specifically Elfhame. | |
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Insecure Love Interest | |
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Insecure Love Interest: Both the Bomb and the Roach are in love with each other, but believe they're not good enough for the other. Roach because (as a goblin) he's not handsome enough for the beautiful Bomb, and Bomb believes she'll never be able to repay him for rescuing and rehabilitating her from the torture and brainwashing she went through in the Court of Teeth. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Supplemental material in The Queen Of Nothing revealed that although Carden banished Jude when she took the Geas off him and left her to rot, he did send multiple letters that she never received in the mortal realm. Several of them have him admit that he misses her, and asks where she is. He even writes that he revokes the banishment if that's what it will take for her to return. While he can't write out a full apology, and their relationship is beyond apologies, he comes close to it. | |
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Poison and Cure Gambit | |
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Poison and Cure Gambit: Balekin’s scheme to get the crown back. | |
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Jerkass Realization | |
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Jerkass Realization: Queen of Nothing has Taryn suffering one for all her actions. She manipulated Jude, served as Madoc's pawn willingly, and was more than happy to throw her blood sisters under the bus to marry Locke. Taryn gets a big one when Jude agrees to pose as her for a glamour inquest, which ends in Madoc "rescuing" who he thinks is Taryn by kidnapping her and later stabbing Jude fatally. Taryn noticeably has a horrified expression as Jude struggles to walk while losing blood, and stitches her up without complaint. | |
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Stockholm Syndrome | |
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Stockholm Syndrome: Jude and Taryn have grown to love Madoc like a father while resenting him for killing their parents at the same time. | |
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Sibling Murder | |
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Sibling Murder: Balekin kills or orders the death of almost all of the royal family in the course of threatening them to crown him. leading to... | |
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Crossing the Burnt Bridge | |
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Crossing the Burnt Bridge: Thanks to the events of the books, Taryn and Jude are estranged. Book three starts with Taryn asking Jude for help. Jude at first understandably refuses, pointing out that even if she wants to help, she's got a little problem called exiled from Fairie. | |
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Too Much Alike | |
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Too Much Alike: Jude suspects that she and her foster father Madoc would get along better if he didn't raise her to be as ruthless, ambitious, and stubborn as he is. She knows he'll never concede to her wishes or demands in his quest for power... nor she to his. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: Jude's Acquired Poison Immunity pays off when she gets Madoc to choose between two drugged glasses of wine while she drinks the other. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
| The Folk of the Air / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
This is also remarked by Cardan in The Wicked King in regards to Jude and the Court of Shadows: | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
| The Folk of the Air / int_b06bbf4b | comment |
Be Careful What You Wish For: Sophie, a glamoured human servant in Balekin's castle that Jude rescues, bitterly remarks that she used to wish that magic, faeries, and Tinker Bell were real, but now she can't live with knowing they are. Heather seems enchanted to learn that "elves" and magic are real, but she loses her shine to them right quick when a random faerie at a party almost turns her into a cat for admiring his cat ears. | |
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Wicked Stepmother | |
| The Folk of the Air / int_b070362d | comment |
Wicked Stepmother: Averted; Oriana is Madoc's second wife and doesn't try to hide her distaste for his adopted mortal children, but she never antagonizes them either. She even acts somewhat friendly toward Taryn and tries to give Jude advice and guidance at times, even if the latter rarely heeds it. | |
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Selective Obliviousness | |
| The Folk of the Air / int_b0bce7aa | comment |
Selective Obliviousness: Vivienne is in denial about how hard her human sisters Jude and Taryn had it as mortal girls raised in the Faerie world, since she refuses to take Jude's warnings about the danger her mortal girlfriend Heather would be in seriously until it's too late. | |
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Royally Screwed Up | |
| The Folk of the Air / int_b8f395f | comment |
Royally Screwed Up: The Greenbriars are not exactly a healthy family. It could probably be argued that the reason for this was cultural due to the toxic and competitive environment of Elfhame, and the pressure and gossip of being in the spotlight. Of the members of the family we see: Eldred: While little is known about the patriarch’s personality, it doesn’t appear he was a good father to his children. Two of his sons plot to murder him and he neglects and later exiles his youngest son. Balekin Murders his entire family in a bid for power, roiling the kingdom. Additionally, interactions also show he was very insecure, and he took these insecurities out on his youngest brother. Dain: Had an affair with his father’s consort. Additionally, plotted and manipulated his way into being next in line for succession, including poisoning his own father in order to become king quicker. He also attempted to murder his unborn child. Cardan: An eighteen-year-old alcoholic who doesn’t try at anything because he’s afraid he’ll be picked on. His family members neglected him, framed him for murder, exiled him from his home, and physically abused him. Complicating matters, Cardan winds up as king, and has to figure how to sort through his traumas in order to be a competent ruler. He succeeds. | |
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Forced Transformation | |
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Heather seems enchanted to learn that "elves" and magic are real, but she loses her shine to them right quick when a random faerie at a party almost turns her into a cat for admiring his cat ears. | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
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Aerith and Bob: “Jude� "Taryn" and "Vivi" stick out amidst the fae names. | |
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Gang of Bullies | |
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Jude also decides this after Dain approaches her to be his spy. Trying to be the good, meek, fearful little mortal everyone wanted her to be never got Cardan or his Gang of Bullies to leave her alone, and appealing to her father's sense of honor to become a Knight of Elfhame didn't get her the title, so she decides that she might as well become a ruthless spy and assassin to seize power by force if she can't gain love or respect from the fey willingly. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: Jude and Taryn are better daughters and heirs to Madoc than Vivienne, despite being mortal and not his blood children as Vivi is. Of Madoc's four children, faerie-blooded Vivienne and Oak vastly prefer living in the mortal world, while the mortal-born Jude and Taryn prefer to remain in Faerie. | |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork | |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: This is pretty much the staple for Cardan and Jude teaming up in the aftermath of the failed coronation in the end of the first book; in the second one, this is played with since Jude doesn't want to trust Cardan or even think of him as capable of being a competent king, whereas it's heavily implied and later he admits as much that Cardan goes along with her whims because he wants her to trust him. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Without actually mentioning the title, Jude watches Yuri!!! on Ice at the end of The Wicked King. Again, without mentioning a title, in How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories Cardan watches Knives Out with Jude in the mortal realm. | |
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FromACertainPointOfView | |
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From a Certain Point of View: The Fair Folk can't lie directly, so they use omissions and half-truths for all they're worth. | |
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Decadent Court | |
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Decadent Court: The court consists of a bunch of beautiful Gentry faeries vying for power through murder. Additionally, the culture of the court has a very Might Makes Right attitude, and members who display any perceived ‘kindness’ are generally only serving their own ends. For example, Dain branded himself as good and honorable only to gain favor from his father. | |
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No Periods, Period | |
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No Periods, Period: Averted, one of the reasons Jude and Taryn go the mortal world is to buy tampons, since Jude suggests that because faerie females only get one cycle per year or so, they don't have anything of the like in Faerie, instead relying mostly on padding, Jude says that everything about it is embarrassing. | |
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I Know Your True Name | |
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I Know Your True Name: One of the few things the Folk can't handle, as someone knowing their true name renders them completely obedient to any orders issued with the name. Jude notes that she's heard of faeries who've cut off their own ears in order to get out of being controlled with their names, and cut out the tongues of anyone who knows the names to prevent it from being used. | |
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Killing in Self-Defense | |
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Killing in Self-Defense: After one too many attempts on her life, Jude fatally stabs Valerian. Balekin also forces her hand by challenging her to a duel with the intent of killing her. Since she had already tossed around the idea of assassinating him, Cardan is not convinced of the self-defense angle. | |
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Abdicate the Throne | |
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Abdicate the Throne: A major plot point is that the current High King is about to abdicate the throne (since faerie rulers don't die of old age) to his son, Prince Dain. It's later all but stated that Dain was poisoning his father so he would feel exhausted and rush his ascendance to the throne, among many other schemes. | |
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Acquired Poison Immunity | |
| The Folk of the Air / int_daba0e87 | comment |
Acquired Poison Immunity: Jude starts doing this at the suggestion of Prince Dain. It ends up saving her at a critical time. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: Taryn and Jude are aware that their respective love interests are not great romantic partners. This does not stop either of them. | |
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Tangled Family Tree | |
| The Folk of the Air / int_de15a322 | comment |
Tangled Family Tree: Not nearly as bad as it could have been, but Oak is Cardan's nephew and Jude's (adoptive) brother. Meaning that he is also Jude's nephew and Cardan's brother-in-law. If Jude and Cardan ever had a kid, Oak would be the child's uncle and cousin. What's more, he's Locke's biological half-brother, and Taryn's adopted brother. After Taryn marries Locke and becomes pregnant with his child, this makes Oak both the child's uncle from both parents. | |
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Cannot Tell a Lie | |
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Can Not Tell A Lie: Faeries are incapable of lying. The mere fact that Jude can lie makes her worthy of being a spy for Dain, since the skill is so rare in their world. | |
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Geas | |
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Geas: Dain puts one on Jude so that no fairy can Glamour her apart from him. | |
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I Never Got Any Letters | |
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I Never Got Any Letters: In the second book, Cardan assumes that since Jude hasn't responded to any of his letters rescinding her banishment and begging her to return to Elfhame, Jude must be fed up with his nonsense and has moved on in the mortal world. In reality, Cardan's mother has been intercepting them. | |
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Love Martyr | |
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Love Martyr: Taryn becomes this for Locke. In the first book, she lets him date her and her sister at the same time without complaint to "prove" that she's good enough to marry him. After they're wed, she puts up with his cheating, wild revelries, and neglect, playing the part of the doting wife and homemaker. It isn't until she becomes pregnant and confronts him about it that she realizes how useless he is. | |
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The Starscream | |
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The Starscream: Madoc helps Balekin kill Dain with the intention of getting Oak on the throne later on. | |
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Never Say "Die" | |
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Never Say "Die": Madoc tells Jude that abdicated fairy kings are off seeking the "Land Of Promise". Jude suspects that means dying but Madoc refuses to admit it. | |
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Murder Is the Best Solution | |
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Murder Is the Best Solution: Locke tells Jude that her family would be surprised to learn murder can't solve all their problems. Jude agrees that she would indeed find that surprising. This is also remarked by Cardan in The Wicked King in regards to Jude and the Court of Shadows: | |
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BigSisterInstinct | |
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Big Sister Instinct: Both Vivienne and Jude agree about one thing: Oak is off-limits from the Faerie politics. Vivienne also tried to bring her sisters with her in her first escape from Faerie; she only let them return to Madoc's household when they couldn't adjust to normal life. | |
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New Neo City | |
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New Neo City: There's a visitor from a fairy kingdom off the coast of America called New Avalon. | |
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Selkies and Wereseals | |
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Selkies and Wereseals: A few from Orlagh's kingdom appear wearing their skins like cloaks. | |
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