The Folk of The Air trilogy review

So I know that The Folk of the Air trilogy has been superrr hyped, and normally, when books are like that, I find that I end up not liking them as much as I expected. That was not the case for this series. I can't even find the right words to express my adoration for this world and it's characters. For this review, I'm not going to separate it by book, but rather just group all my thoughts together.

This is a spoiler free review, by the way. :)

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Background: The world of The Cruel Prince takes place in Elfhame, or Faerieland. One of our main characters, Jude, is a mortal girl in Faerie, where mortals are hated because they are weak. Jude was taken from the mortal land along with her twin sister, and fostered by the man who murdered her parents. Cardan is one of the princes of Faerie. Cardan and Jude hate each other immensely, but this is an enemies to lovers, so that's expected. This trilogy is Cardan and Jude's story, though I would say that it's arguably more Jude's than Cardan's.

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Jude is the best character I've ever come across. She's super intense and willing to fight hard for what she wants. She's always been the lowest of the low as a mortal in Faerie, and this has made her extremely power hungry. One of my favorite quotes from her is this: "If I cannot become better than them, I will become so much worse." That should give you an idea of who she is. She proves over and over again how clever and tricky she is, and she never backs down. She bests the Folk many, many times, and she is the complete opposite of weak. I love her.

Let's talk about the plot twists. The Cruel Prince has many, The Wicked King a few, and The Queen of Nothing maybe one or two. I am a HUGE sucker for plot twists, and whenever books have lots of them, they automatically go up in rating in my mind. The Cruel Prince's plot twists were VERY unexpected and they added so much to the book. The ending of The Wicked King had me reeling for like 20 minutes. PLEASE read this series.

Cardan and Jude are my OTP. I love them with my whole heart. The way their relationship develops is so intense, since they're both such broken characters, but everytime they touched, I literally squealed. They know they want each other, but they keep betraying eachother. But that's what makes a great enemies to lovers. The arc was done really well. In a lot of enemies to lovers that I've read, the couple is enemies for a while, then they switch to lovers and it's done. But in this trilogy, they keep alternating between enemies and lovers, which keeps the tension there. It's great. And it's not hot and cold either, You can see each of their respective barriers breaking down, and their relationship building up through all of this. One of my favorite Cardan quotes to Jude: “Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.” That should sum up their relationship quite well for you. But seriously though, I'm obsessed with them together.

Jude's character arc is awesome. Where she starts from to where she ends up is completely insane. I don't want to spoil anything so that's all I'm going to say.

A couple last things: The writing wasn't really my style, as it seemed a little too formal, but I kinda let it pass since I loved the storyline so much. The books were absolutely addicting, let me tell you. They're all pretty short, 300-350 pages at the most, which is what makes them addicting. Short and sweet. Reading this is like watching a movie in your head, and I'm not even exaggerating. When I stopped to take a break, I felt like I paused a movie.

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So, as you might have guessed from the lack of bad things I had to say about The Folk of the Air trilogy, my rating for this is a full 5/5 stars. It's not my absolute favorite, but it's close for sure. Anyway, I really hope my review convinced you to pick up this series because it's AMAZING and now I'm going to keep recommending it to everyone I see. That's all I have for you today, and PLEASE PLEASE go read this.