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EXCUSE ME WAS NOBODY GOING TO TELL ME CASS CLARE SAID HOLLY SAID CARDAN IS "DESPERATE FOR AN HEIR" LIKE RUE WHEN WAS THIS

this might be unpopular but i genuinely think a lot of the hate for taryn is rooted in misogyny. people are able to understand that jude and madoc have a complicated relationship even though he very nearly killed her, they love jude and cardan even though most of the first book was him just humiliating and looking down on her, but when it comes to taryn suddenly she’s a horrible unforgivable person because she just wants to belong and not be treated as a less than for being human?

Do you ever think about the insane ego boost Cardan must have gotten when he managed to bag Jude? The baddest baddie in all the kingdom, who could outsmart, outfight and outmaneuver everyone who stood in her way and she wanted him, King Eldred's most useless son?

Cardan in the books was never informed of Balekin's form of torture or any of the torture Jude went through. I like to think that maybe he would be less resentful of Balekin's death at her hand if he knew that he forced her to kiss him while she was pretending to be glamoured.

So what I'm hearing is we get The last King of Fairy, A Conspiracy of Charming Monsters and The broken Cage- all in the same damn month??

sometimes i wish the cruel prince would be adapted into visual media but then i remember they'd cast some pale tall skinny girl as jude, some macho tiktok pretty dude as cardan and butcher vivi's character until she's either good in a one dimensional way (e.g: charlie in twighlight) or a bitch (and they'd make her straight for the fun of it [or mean lesbian trope 😰])