Black, Holly.
THE CRUEL PRINCE
Boston : Little, Brown, 2018
IL YA
ISBN 978-0-316-31027-7

(2 booktalks)

Booktalk #1

Jude and her sisters have lived a charmed life raised in the beautiful and dangerous High Court of Faerie...to which they were stolen away as children by their parents’ murderer. Brought up as members of his eminent household, they are educated alongside the Gentry’s children and treated as family – almost. Amid constant reminders that they, as humans, do not really belong, Jude wonders about her place in the world of the fair folk. With increasing frequency and viciousness, Jude is a target of the bullying young members of the High Court. To protect herself, she has to make choices about where her loyalties lie. As Jude digs deeper into long-buried secrets, a treacherous and possibly violent path toward her role in the future of Faerie is laid before her.
Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2018-2019

Booktalk #2

After her parents’ murder, Jude, a mortal,was taken away to live in the High Court of Faerie. Jude wants nothing more than to belong in the fey world, but doing so means defying a bloodthirsty prince. (Connecticut Nutmeg Award https://www.nutmegaward.org/)