saya ☽ the moody reader's Reviews > The Cruel Prince

i feel like i’m the only one who’s going to rate this brutally low… because guess what? this was absolute rubbish to me. here i am practically seething at every annoying buffoon in this book. this was actually an anticipated read but how did it transform into hot sewage?
excuse me while i channel all my
disappointment into this unapologetic
review.

SPOILERS FROM THIS POINT
don’t say i didn’t warn ya

this was my first physical purchase of the year
and i’m already regretting it
the only thing that it will be used for, is display purposes.
the cruel book

i’m going to start with the first jackass
aka
Jude the Honorary Jackass
Jude the inept Jackass has only a few things that she’s able to excel at: whining, complaining, being a nuisance, and making the most idiotic decisions ever. pathetic if you ask me..i genuinely wish i was a time traveller, so i’d be able to save myself the grief of suffering through Jude.

and yep, if you’re someone allergic to morons. you’ll loathe most of the characters, actually it’s indifference at this point. which is much worse, if you ask me.

what’s the point of reading a book and rooting for absolutely no one?

let’s start with how Jude feels affection for the man who killed her parents
-revolting i know-
wait don’t worry, she has boundaries! shocking, right? that means she doesn’t love him tooo much.
just enough to ignore the blaring obvious elephant in the room.
butchering her parents? that’s alright to Jude.
do you see my dilemma?
reading this far was a punishment in itself.


Jude is repetitive af.
she thinks it’s a necessity to remind me
that she still loves Madoc
a billion times during the story
let’s not forget her protecting her snake of a twin sister.
BTW HER TWIN DESPISES JUDE
and what makes me even more irritated
is that Jude thinks her sister is helpless
and that she has to protect her
you little twat, you need to protect yourself from Taryn
she doesn’t like you, hoe!
you don’t need magic to develop some semblance of common sense.

ugh
i didn’t understand the whole
Jude and what’s his name?
Cardigan?
Cardyn?
whatever
bum ass bully, vanishes for a good portion of the book.
then reappears near the end, and we’re supposed to care …. why?
it was just awkward, there was no buildup.

he has an important role during the end
and apparently, he’s not an asshole because that’s just the way he is!
he’s that way due to “circumstances”
*gags*
the hate was mutual
Jude had an opportunity
to finally get the revenge she’s always wanted, but she has a change of heart
just because his brother roughed him up
and he’s got daddy issues
plus he had his reasons for the awfully cruel way he treated her
that must make him a good fae
because all good fae try to drown you
demean you, humiliate you,
and see you only as dirt.
cardigan sweater
yeah he’s a good ol’ guy

here’s a tidbit
Caridgan said he hates thinking about Jude
cause she’s oh so “dreamy”
what does she do?
well
after he relays that to her
she must be delusional
because why would it be a good idea to smooch the bane of your existence
ummmm
whaaaaaat the hell
there is no tension or slow burn between these two troglodytes.
whut
i’m confused
Jude the very weak power obsessed imbecile
here is your arch nemesis!
he says he hates you
thinks about you constantly
you hate him too, ok!
the most reasonable thing to do
is to smooch his stank acidic unwashed wine fuelled repugnant vile mouth???
just because he’s fae doesn’t mean his mouth pH doesn’t get all nasty after all that liquor
the sweater guy hasn’t even brushed
ew, then again
don’t you hate him?

jude you’re literally an annoying little shit
all you talk about is power this power that
you’re clearly gonna holla
at satan and sell your soul
for some power

and Taryn?
absolute worst twin
should have absorbed her in the womb
tsk tsk
let’s her man cheat with Jude
“to prove their love ofccc”
oh also judy, dw you can meet him when he proposes to Taryn. LOL!
ain’t no point of putting that salt in your fae food Taryn, you’re gonna catch these salty hands thot

taryn you little pest, how could you sabotage your own twin
who is always sticking up for your
sorry excuse of an existence ????

Jude is a donkey and Taryn is a pest.
both are resilient, in their own sick ways.

inhale
exhale


stockholm syndrome should be the twins new name
stockholm for Jude
and syndrome for Taryn
cause that’s what these two
are deluded with
and when i think of syndrome for Taryn
it’s actually quite fitting

ok ok
back to Haddock
i mean Madoc, Mad Ox?
this bastard “is what he is”
it’s in him to go kill his ex-wife’s husband
in front of a child
then after she gets horrified that he would do such a thing
she obviously tries to run away, which is laughable attempt
then homeboy over here gets really mad
no pun intended Mad-Ox.
since he’s a green tinged beast with no qualms or morals
he goes on to kill his ex-wife in front of the said child again
aka child Jude.
then tells Vivi
his biological daughter
that she and her half sisters are coming with him
to the land of fae
yeah so that’s how they end up in the land of fae
and Madoxxy raises them to be one mixed blended happy family and they live happily ever after. NOT.

yeah right...

Madonna is a weirdo
the killer and part time father is someone who preaches about honour
while betraying kings and obsessing over war
he dips his cap in the blood of his enemies
how frightening, said no one ever
Madude loves his cap so much
he probably sleeps with it on some nights
it’s his emotional support blankey
totally normal
since he “is what he is”
and
that would be a walking contradiction
he trains the twins
doesn’t really force Vivi to do anything
has his fake wife and other kid
tries to get said 7 year old crowned as king
the kid that’s not his
nor his current wife’s
now please tell me
how these big and bad scary fae
are going to accept some little twerp
who hasn’t even reached the age of maturity
as their High King????????
stupidity is quite prevalent around these folks
just cause he has some royal blood doesn’t mean that these dark power ranger bunny fae folk are going to submit to a child
who apparently looks like he should be in a lucky charms
commercial

i can go on and on about all the things wrong with this book
buts it’s 2018
and now it’s time for me to mention all the elements i enjoyed about this book…

please stay tuned to a gr near you
because there is nothing good about this
i can’t even think of one part i genuinely semi-liked?

this book is one of the worst fae books
i have ever read
it just reminds me of a really bad fae based reality show
just with some budget bloodshed and zero tension.

sigh
it’s disappointing to say the least
and in this case
there’s nothing wrong with me
it’s the book’s fault

i feel wronged

i literally was waiting for this book since early last year


rip to my wasted time 🥀