Waiting On Wednesday: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

With the busyness of the holidays I haven't had a chance to finish The Great Pursuit yet and when I do I'll be jumping into Texas Gothic by Rosemary Clement-Moore my annual New Year's Eve read so instead of a "What I'm Reading" Wednesday post I'm ending out the last Wednesday of 2017 with a Waiting on Wednesday. 

January 2nd is going to be a busy day with not only the release of my YA Fantasy novel, CURSEBREAKER, but so many other wonderful books. This TBR book is the one I'm looking forward to the most of the January 2nd books (other than my own!)...

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Blurb:

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 years old 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.

In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering her own capacity for bloodshed. But as civil war 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.

Why I'm Waiting:

I was disappointed with ACOWAR earlier this year so I've been hungry for a good Faerie read for months and this book has appealed to me from the first moment I heard about it. This sounds more along the lines of a darker faerie world, though I do hope there is some romance. I haven't read anything by Holly Black before... wait - I think I have, there was a short story once in an anthology that I think went along with her "Coldest Girl In Coldtown" book and I really liked that, so now that I remember that I'm eager to read more by her. (Plus this Barnes and Noble exclusive edition is gorgeous and I can't wait to get my signed, personalized copy!)