The Queen of Nothing by Holly BlackMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black is my last and final book of the Folk of the Air series, and also my last book for a while, since I pre-ordered How the King of Elfhame Learned How to Hate Stories. I’m going to be sad to miss these characters I’ve grown to love and hate, and admire, and wanted to throw into bloody faerie hell if I get the chance (or Jude does) one day. But for now, let’s hop into the book review of Queen of Nothing.
So it starts off with Jude and her exile and how she was spending it. She spent it taking care of her brother Oak and her sister Vivi, while also taking job for the faerie-for example, fighting Grima Mog on the roof and threatening to burn her red cap off. But during that fight with Grima Mog, she learns that Cardan, her husband, High King of Elfhame, bastard I want to yeet off a mountain and never see ever again, might be looking for a new seneschal. That surprised her, and once she won the fight against Grima Mog, she goes home and….
...and Taryn, her twin sister is there.
Taryn, who married Locke and then turned around and killed him. I was gonna do it, yeet him off some cliff and leave him there to die, but Taryn comes to Jude, asking her to go back to Elfhame because she’s going to be on trial for Locke’s murder, and she needed her to go back. Also Taryn’s pregnant with Locke’s baby, so that’s a shocker too. Then another shocker (I swear, I’m going to get more shocked to the point that I’m gonna have a heart attack-not really, though) Heather, Vivi’s ex-girlfriend, comes back to their lives after she got traumatized by the faerie the first time she was there, and also Vivi pretty much glamourizing her.
Jude decides to help Taryn, and she goes back into the faerie world, going to the court pretending to be her sister, only for Cardan to notice her (ah duh) and escort her to the back...when all hell broke loose. Jude went with some of Madoc’s men to go to his camp, findig out that Madoc wants to start a war and going right in and challenging Cardan to a duel for the crown (crown hungry, as my mama would say).
Jude tries to figure out how to escape while trying to pretend that she’s her sister, but then she was found out by Oriana, who knew that she wasn’t Taryn, and she helped her escape, but then Cardan and the Bomb came, and Cardan made a promise to take away her exile and to come back to the castle. She agreed, and they go back-but not before Madoc and her got into a fight and he wounded her, and Grima Mog, Taryn, and Vivi showed up, stopping him from killing her.
So they take Jude back to the castle where she’s healed and she is now reconized as Queen of Elfhame, and the people didn’t like it. They wanted her to rebuke her title, but she didn’t want to, especially when Madoc came to Hollow Hall and pretty much demanded a parley from Cardan, but Cardan had a mean girl moment when he snapped the crown in two...and turned into a huge serpent.
And now I know why there’s a bloody snake on the cover on the book.
Cardan turned into a serpent and everyone either screamed or ran away, leaving Jude to take care of the court while trying to figure out how to get Cardan back from being a snake. But at the same time she took care of some little things for herself, like getting a new knight, making Grima Mog her Grand General, and having her family there while she was making terrible decisions. But then when Madoc and the Court of Teeth came into court to make another deal with her-make Madoc the ruler behind Jude (like that was going to happen), and to bind the snake with the golden binder, making Cardan bound to her.
Though she didn’t like the idea (I sure as hell didn’t), she agreed to it, and they went to the battlefield, where the serpent was waiting on them. Jude had the binder with her, in her hands, but as she walked forward, she realized that she didn’t need it (I mean, she was in really beautiful armor) and just told him that she loved him...before cutting the head off.
All hell broke loose in the background, but then Madoc came to her, turned her around, and said “I will bend my head to you, and only you.” to her ear when Cardan appeared out of the dead serpent and said that the king is back, stopping everyone from fighting. They come back to the castle and have a feast, where everyone is pardoned, including the dismemberment of the Court of Teeth and Madoc living the rest of his days in the mortal realm, and Oriana going with him. Heather and Vivi are starting over, and Taryn has been pardoned for the murder of Locke and have been given his home and lands.
At the end, they went to the mortal realm, and Cardan went, and they had pizza of every topping you can think of thanks to Oak, and at the end, since I have the exclusive edition, he basically wrote letters to Jude that she never gotten thanks to Lady Asha, and they were so funny that I had to laugh at some of them, though the last one made me crackle when he wrote her name a hundred times, then PLEASE JUDE at the end.
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