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“ No, Charlie wanted to insist. People only love you if you make it worth their while. No one loves you once they see your weaknesses. No one loved your flaws. No one loves your ugly, broken parts. No one loves you and expects nothing more than your love in return.”

Thief of Night (The Charlatan Duology #2) by Holly Black

October 19, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

Charlie Hall, glue trap for disaster, crooked from the day she was born, who’d never met a bad decision she wasn’t willing to double down on, may have finally met her match. After the events of the previous book, Charlie actually thought she’d won. She had managed to defeat Lionel Salt, and rescue her lover―the powerful shadow, Vince―back from under the noses of the powerful Cabal leaders, instead of Vince going to his cousin and Salt’s granddaughter, Adaline. Agreeing to become the Hierophant and risking […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Charlatan duology, Holly Black, Massachusetts, shadows

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:136 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Charlatan duology, Holly Black, Massachusetts, shadows ·
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What if we skipped the shadow daddy trope and just went with the shadow

Thief of Night by Holly Black

October 2, 2025 by Jen K Leave a Comment

It’s been over 3 years since the first novel in this duology came out so common sense would imply that I would have reread Book of Night before jumping into this but no, of course not. I vaguely remembered some of the bigger points and twists (although I also slightly blended one idea with a concept from a different book) but Black did a good job of mixing in enough reminders and context throughout the novel to guide the reader without just giving a plot […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Charlatan duology, Holly Black

Jen K's CBR17 Review No:90 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Charlatan duology, Holly Black ·
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To family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming great schemes. I can toast to that.”

The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

May 7, 2025 by bjornsnipe 2 Comments

I love when a trilogy is a banger from start to finish. Exiled at the end of the last book, Jude is out for either self-pitying or revenge, mostly self-pitying. Running errands for a local Fae in Maine, riding a dinky bike squatting in the spare room of her older half-sister’s ex-girlfriend’s apartment is not the way she thought her reign would go. I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness. Of course that changes when Taryn shows up because […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Fae court intrigue, Holly Black

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:46 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Fae court intrigue, Holly Black ·
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“Once upon a time, there was a human girl stolen away by faeries, and because of that, she swore to destroy them.”

The Wicked King by Holly Black

May 1, 2025 by bjornsnipe 4 Comments

And the hits keep coming and they don’t stop coming. Jude has succeeded in her plans; her brother Oak, heir to the throne of Faerie is safe; Cardan sits on the throne in his stead, with Jude as the power behind the throne. If only Cardan wasn’t trying to thwart her at every turn, enemies weren’t behind every corner, someone close to her wasn’t planning to betray her, and Jude hadn’t accidentally caught the feels for Cardan. As the promised year of Cardan’s semi-obedience to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, enemies to lovers, Fae court intrigue, Holly Black, Urban Fantasy

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:38 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, enemies to lovers, Fae court intrigue, Holly Black, Urban Fantasy ·
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“Nice things don’t happen in storybooks or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.”

The Cruel Prince: The Folk of the Air Book One by Holly Black

April 22, 2025 by bjornsnipe 1 Comment

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.” There are books I read and hate, books I read and like, books I read and enjoy, and books that I read and become so obsessed with they take up far too much space in my head; this is one that fits in the last category. Jude Duarte lived in the mortal world (probably somewhere in the New Jersey/New York area as that seems to be where Holly Black bases most of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Fae court intrigue, Holly Black, morally grey heroes

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:32 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Fae court intrigue, Holly Black, morally grey heroes ·
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“We are messes and we are messed up and I don’t want to go through this world without the one person I can’t hide from and who can’t hide from me.”

The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black

May 2, 2024 by Malin Leave a Comment

CBR16 Sweet Books: Excited (this is one of my most anticipated releases in the first half of the year) This book really doesn’t stand alone. It is the second half of a duology that started with The Stolen Heir, which came out last year. If you haven’t read that one, it’s probably best to skip this review and return once you’ve caught up. Prince Oak, heir to the throne of Elfhame, finds himself a prisoner in the dungeons of Queen Suren (or Wren, as he […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: CBR16, CBR16SweetBooks, curse, Excited, faeries, Holly Black, intrigue, LGBTQIA, magic, Malin, mystery, paranormal fantasy, Romance, Stolen Heir duology, The Prisoner's Throne

Malin's CBR16 Review No:20 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: CBR16, CBR16SweetBooks, curse, Excited, faeries, Holly Black, intrigue, LGBTQIA, magic, Malin, mystery, paranormal fantasy, Romance, Stolen Heir duology, The Prisoner's Throne ·
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