Description

There are many points of view of a story; the only one we know about is the one we see or heard. Sometimes it goes in favor and other times it goes against it. What if the thing we are seeing is against us but in someone else’s point of view that thing is in our favor? People often have the tendency to misjudge a situation or often people overthink things. But it is only later that they realize that things were not against them, they just were seeing things from a whole different perspective.

About the Book 

The Queen of Nothing is the third book written in The Folk of the Air series. It continues the story of High King Cardan of Elfhame and his exiled Queen Jude. Though the book may be the last part of the series, it definitely is one of the most remarkable works of the author.Jude was exiled from the Elfhame and no one knows who she really is. She left all hopes to go back to her king until one day her twin showed up and declared that she murdered her husband Locke and asked her sister Jude to help her. This is the only way Jude can see through to back to Elfhame to ask the King about the betrayal. But things are not the same as what she thought and left with. Her father Madoc was planning to battle against the King for the throne.

Blurb 

After Cardan vows Jude to be his queen and exiles her for his brother’s murder, she started living with Vivienne and Oak in mortal land. She felt betrayed and thought Cardan made a fool out of her but there was a trick in between his orders that she never got understood until Cardan himself told her himself when she appeared in the court as Taryn. Madoc’s soldier came to rescue Taryn and get her far away from the court where Madoc and his allies camped. Jude as Taryn saw this situation as an opportunity to know the strategies of Madoc. But Madoc caught her. Trying to escape and fighting for her life from Madoc, Jude got deadly injured. Before she got the last strike of Madoc’s sword her sisters came with a woman soldier named Grima Mog and rescued her. She was not in the state to get back to the palace so her sister stitched her but something happened at the time that made Grima Mog kneel on one knee. After that Jude’s accidental appearance in the palace daunt all the folks and they try to capture her as a prisoner but High King Cardan stopped them and announced the true identity of her. And leave them shocked and horrified.

Themes 

• Power– the book shows how power can actually be something which is often desired by everyone. Indeed it has its own advantages.
• Magic– being a book of fantasy genre, magic is portrayed in a different and unique way.
• Trust- the whole plot was based upon trust. We often hold grudges against people but at the same time due to our past we know that we can trust them when time comes in the matter of certain things.
• Believe– this is most crucial for survival. Belief that things will be better in future, belief that we are loved and most importantly believe in ourselves.
• Hope– it is something which gives us a purpose for living.
• Love– the whole story of Jude and Cardan is no less than a love story. The way they turn from enemies to lovers will definitely give you a fresh take on what love actually is.

Characters 

• Jude Duarte: The High Queen of Elfhame who was exiled from her own land by the High King. She felt betrayed by Cardan but her fascination towards him made her feel empty and lonely. She got the honor and power of the Queen yet there’s nothing she can do to go back to faerie land.
• Cardan Greenbriar: The High King of Elfhame who never gave a thought to becoming a king, was ruling over the land without the help of his seneschal. He’s born to a king but he’s desperately waiting for her queen’s return to him, to stand by his side.
• Grima Mog: A female faerie who was the formal redcap general of the Court of Teeth. Now she is the general of the High Court of Elfhame.
• Taryn Duarte: The twin sister and the murderer of her own husband Locke.
• Vivienne: An immortal sister of Jude, now helping her to take care of Oak in the mortal world.
• Madoc: The general of the High King now is planning to become the King himself and rule over the Faerie. He stands against the King and Jude.
• Oriana: Wife of Madoc and loved Oak as his own mother.
• Heather: She is the girlfriend of Vivienne who is a mortal and helping Vivienne and Oak to get settled in the mortal world.
• Nicasia: She is the princess of the undersea who is now the ambassador of the sea.
• The Roach: Loyal accommodation of both Jude and King Cardan. Helping them to keep everything in their accordance. A spy of the court of shadows who is a thief, he’s able to steal anyone or anything.
• The Bomb: Now a close friend of Jude’s and a spy of the court of the shadows is in charge of explosive things and poisons.
• The Ghost: A spy from the court of shadows who betrayed Jude. Now is the captive of Madoc.

Best Lines 

• I start to speak, but he stops me with a gesture. “And you.” He looks at me, his lips curving in something that’s not quite a smile; it’s more and less than that. “I knew little else, but I always knew you.” And when he kisses me, I feel as though I can finally breathe again.
• Tell me what I must slay, what I must steal, tell me the riddle I must solve or the hag I must trick. Only tell me the way, and I will do it, no matter the danger, no matter the hardship, and no matter the cost.
• And yet my heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the undersea.
• It was yours before I could ever admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.

About the Author 

Holly Black, an American writer and editor is famously known for her beautiful writing style of her fantasy novels. Through her novels, she did an amazing job of expressing to the readers a new world that we couldn’t even imagine. After the huge success of the first two books of the folk of the air series, Holly Black is known as the queen of faerie and rules over the reader’s hearts as the books are amazing and imaginative to read. Readers are solely hypnotized by the way she writes every plot twist in the story and gives the characters different kinds of personalities.

Conclusion 

This series is wholly an amazing package for fantasy readers. One dives into a whole new world and lives an imaginative life. As it is the last part of this series readers are thrilled with the ending and how some of the plots came to a wonderful turn. The story of Jude and Cardan was unforgettable, leaving their reader’s hearts warm with the happy ending.