written on 03/22/2019

I raced through this book.
It is relatively thin, and the story was very captivating.
However, I must say that I did not really have a character that I identified with. Aside from that, I thought the characters were all developed in a way that made it possible for me to distinguish between them based on the way they acted and talked.
This especially applied for Cardan and Madoc because they were the ones I found most intriguing. Both characters have motives that take a while to discover, and both are devious in away.
Cardan spoke to me because I liked the way his character took a 180° turn when it came to his development.
Taryn, on the other hand, was a character with a purpose I could not understand. She starkly contrasts Jude and even Vivienne, but she is a character who is heavily unlikeable, in my opinion.
I also thoroughly enjoyed Black's world-building, especially when it came to the way mortals interact with and react to things that are so peculiarly Fae. I vividly remember how important it was that Jude and Taryn wear their string of berries and carry their salt, and how vivid Jude felt the effects of the Fae Fruit, the Everapple for the first time.
Overall, I enjoyed the world-building a little more than the characters, but the overall balance of both throughout the book was very nice.