A review by twirl
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black

2.0

As expected, this book is not anything like its full versions. Similar to book 1.5, it is from a different perspective with the goal of filling in some of the story gaps and providing insight onto the characters actions and backstory. Some of the insight on scenes we read about earlier in the series was interesting, but the rest felt like fluff background as well as a small story on an event that happened after book 3. I don’t love “and then” storytelling (which, as I said in my review of book 1.5, these .5 books tend to have) but being that this is the final book of the series, I was hoping it would have a more epilogue feel, with some insight on how life was going after the events of the 3rd book. And maybe more romance, rather than self pity.

But not a bad book, and a quick read.