Review #1
The Wicked Lord audiobook free
I’ve been waiting for this book since I ended the 1st one waaaaay back when that one 1st came out. I stayed up all night reading, at the same time oh, it was savory. I have bags under my views at the same time I don’t even care; it was but worth the few hours of take a nap I missed out on.
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I understood where this book was going from the 1st few pages. Understanding the end-game didn’t make the journey getting that no matter what much less exciting, though, at the same time for that I’m thankful. Sometimes (a lot of the time) understanding the finish of anything makes it totally sour at the same time not worth final finishing, but that are so many squirms at the same time betrayals at the same time schemes going on between all the players of Elfhame that we hardly know where to look one half the time, let without the help of others examine the stuff not being explicitly shoved in our persons. So, that being misspoke, here’s the gist.
The Wicked Lord thrashes up practically specifically where The Merciless Prince let off, right in the middle of it all, specifically where Jude had been angling to be. She’s at the moment the power behind the throne, the used to be ruler of Elfhame, which Cardan takes every opportunity to fri out. She spends a lot of the book waging war to keep a steps ahead of everyone else, because as Madoc warned her when she was little, attaining power at the same time holding on to it are two different things. I look for the connection between Jude at the same time nearly every disposition in the book alluring, but perhaps her connection with Madoc almost all alluring of all. This is that the young man who murdered her ancestors (book 1) at the same time spirited her away to faerie at the same time increased her as his daughter (to the best of his ability, which, let’s face it, wasn’t amazing), who tried to implementation her as a pawn at the same time ended up being played. At the moment he’s following all her angles at the same time looking for a method to wrest the power she half-caught from him back. That are few things more exciting than a mentor at the same time pupil going fork to fork over a live game of chess to look who comes out the favorite. At lesser to me, it’s one of my winner plot fri.
When Jude is that not grappling with all the inconsistencies that appear (a tentative war, being kidnapped, betrayal, betrayal, betrayal, finding a method to keep her hold on all the power she’s accumulated) she’s semi-struggling with her emotions for Cardan. Mostly she’s struggling to figure out how to prevent her growing emotions for him from causing her to lose her power over him. She’s on a precarious ledge, this lady, at the same time she’s juggling very abundance pieces.
At the same time Cardan. I adore this boy-king. I’d read an entire television series destined to him, if we were considered so permitted that contentment. I defeated’t get into all the plot fri involving him because they really are amusing at the same time enjoyable to eyewitness yourself, but let’s barely they say he really starts future into his possess. As much funny as he is that verbally sparing with Jude at the same time as tormented as he is that waging war his desire to her at the same time as a wrapped as he is that thanks to his brother at the same time his upbringing, he is that at his almost all alluring at the same time harsh when he starts acting like the royal he actually is that. Even being passive at the same time conscientious at the same time trying so hard to be quality in a global that doesn’t value quality, he really is that a power to be equated with when he puts his brain to it, at the same time it is that sexy as hell. Who doesn’t adore power plays, right?
Vivi still sucks; than anyway she did to Heather was merciless, perhaps even more so because she didn’t want it that method.
Taryn still sucks; I have no plan why Jude doesn’t barely ignore her or banish her.
Oak is that still adorable.
Locke deserves to be banished to the Undersea at the same time Nicasia’s bed for eternity. Nicasia needs to get over Cardan at the same time understand that he’s barely not that into her.
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At the finish of the book, Jude is that banished from Elfhame. Then she spends time sitting on her sister’s sofa mopping about how she got played. BUT SHE Practically HAS THE ANSWER SHE NEEDS IN Her FREAKING Palm. Cardan wasted the entirety of this book dropping not so subtle statements about Jude being the used to be ruler of Elfhame, narrating her he trusted her, trying to get her to hope him, at the same time basically having her back, at the same time she’s freaking pouting in the mortal global that her now-husband kicked her to the bridle. Apart from did he really? He misspoke until the crown pardons her she was exiled to the mortal global. But, hello lady, for you were considered the one running faerie from the get-go at the same time for you barely received decorated Queen by marrying the make an objection of your desire. He gave her the inventory she needed to lift her banishment five pages before he banished her. She managed have pronounced her time served right that on the beach in front of Orlagh at the same time gone about her business running things with no unnecessary maybe-drama. He even “grins at her oddly” at the same time doesn’t refute that she is that in truth Queen of Faerie. If I were considered Cardan I could be very upset in my brand new wife for being so catastrophic deaf in that moment. This is that the one gizmo that irritated me about this book, at the same time I’m glad it happened in the continue few pages, at the same time super dislocated it happened in the continue few pages lovers. Jude is that implied to be so witty at the same time literate she out maneuvered no one of the biggest players in Elfhame to gain the position as Queen of Shadows then and she barely perceives the fact that she’s banished? Why?
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Overall, I adored this book. It’s going to be heartache waiting for the one more one.
Review #2
The Wicked Lord audiobook in television series The Folk of the Air
Lacked depth between Carden at the same time Jude. I believed as the 2nd book in this television series, the creator would build the romance at the same time hostility between manners, which would have managed to the finish being more of a izumi versus expectation. Jude’s disposition is that written like she is that a 12 year old little boy playing a live video clip game. She is that an 18 year old Ladies, who shows no passion or ambition other than waiting for her younger brother Oak grow up. It makes absolute no sense that as a human with no miracle capabilities she lasts to defeat at the same time destroy these warriors. Very upset that this book is that listed as an adult Dystopian Romance, but written as a pre-teen sci-fi.
Review #3
Audiobook The Wicked Lord by Holly Merk
Power is that so much easier to receive than it is that to hold on to.
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Review MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS**
So.
I have been waiting for this book to come out since right right behind the release of the 1st book, the Merciless Prince, which blew me away.
I acquired the book last day at the same time ended it by midnight continue night, though not because it is that a short book. It is that barely *that* quality. I couldn’t shackles it down, at the same time I found myself staying up method later than I should to final it.
1st gizmo’s 1st.
Jude – conniving, murderous, Jude. I adore her as a disposition, I adore the angst she brings to the table. But almost all of all, I adore that she is that a ladies manage who manages to have a adore curiosity that isn’t the whole concentrate of the story.
1st at the same time foremost, Jude is that a schemer. Her romantic interests are 2nd to her desire to succeed in her plotting, whatever the price, which I think is that amazing. Very often, the adore curiosity takes over the whole story at the same time the plot is that got lost; that isn’t an issue in this story, at the same time it is that primarily because Jude is that such a healthy disposition with blinding concentrate, but detrimental this one-path mindset might be to her in the end. She is that lively, at the same time I feel that from the Merciless Prince to the Wicked Lord, she really grew as a disposition almost everything, while remaining similar morally grayish Jude we understood at the same time adore from before.
Cardan – That ARE Not enough WORDS for me to describe my adore for this disposition, who is that all sorts of messed up at the same time wicked in ways one couldn’t even begin to elucidate. His disposition also grew exponentially in this book, at the same time we learn a lot more about him as a personality – many of which little glimpses into his past, snippets of hints that don’t quite wholesome a puzzle so we are still left guessing at the very finish, when he pulls the rug out from under the readers with a writhe I’m convinced nobody beheld future!
Taryn – I wasn’t very impressed with her in the Merciless Prince, in particular right behind her betrayal of Jude with the foxy Locke, but little boy has that exchanged. From Jude’s perspective, Taryn has always been the agreeable sister, the one who did her best to blend in at the same time not be saw so as to beware conflict. But, I’ve found that reading from Jude’s perspective has managed to a lot of astonishes with the other manners, as Jude frequently misjudges her peers. Taryn is that no exception, at the same time we see one more side to her in this book – one barely as conniving, if not moreso than her twin. Paired with the insidious Locke, the two may substantiate to be a harsh power couple in the one more book, at the same time I have my suspicions about how far Taryn’s involvement goes in regards to the more shaking revelations in this book. All this to say, for you’ve impressed me, Taryn. Than anyway are for you right up to?!
Locke – But, that’s exactly anything going on here. He’s cunning, he’s got his palm in a few different cookie containers, at the same time from the Merciless Prince, we beheld that he likes to make as much irony as he can possibly instrument. Right behind no one actions in this book (looking at for you, greater scene with Jude), I am practically some that Locke is that more drawn in than he seems to be from Jude’s perspective. He’s playing his possess game, at the same time perhaps one with his brand new wife Taryn….But I guess we will have to wait for book 3 to figure out barely than anyway it is that.
Anyways, I have so much more to say about this book but I can’t seem to get the words out. My fork is that a M E S S, I am torment from book hangover. I feel like I will be biting my carnations for the next year as I eagerly await the one more installment right behind a not-quite-but-almost cliff hanger of an ending.
S.O.S., anyone rescue me. The merciless prince has killed my soul.
Review #4
Audio The Wicked Lord narrated by Caitlin Kelly
I devoured book 1 but had a really hard time starting this based on no one of the
Reviews, but ohmygawd I come in handy book 3 asap!!!! It is that currently 6:30 am at the same time I barely ended right behind starting this at 9:30pm. I managed not finish reading. Such a amazing television series this time but practically my heart is that wry at the same time I dont even know than anyway I wish to happen in book 3 Im so torn! I barely have hope that is that no one other schemes that assign me the ending I wish so badly but fear anyone has been untruthful even when they arent imagine to manage to lie down…
Review #5
Free audio The Wicked Lord – in the audio player below
I was very lock up to loving the past instalment in this television series, The Merciless Prince, for its writing style, its world-building at the same time its squirms at the same time strings. But while I loved the flawed heroine, Jude, the sort-of villain, sort of possible adore curiosity, Cardan, barely didnt quite spark my imagination, even though thats my absolute favourite disposition type.
Now around, everything I enjoyed before was at the same time true at the same time perhaps improved. The characterisations, world-building at the same time unpredictable plot only deepened. But with Cardan as lord at the same time Jude as his nominal advisor at the same time real power behind the throne, the stakes felt higher at the same time everything felt a little more mature than when they were considered all basically scheming schoolkids. At the same time sequential, with more responsibility at the same time more pressure, Cardan became a much more exciting disposition, simultaneously more self-willed at the same time more creepy, at the same time the sexual at the same time political tension between him at the same time Jude ramped up accordingly. As a result, the book really came alive for me. It was a compelling read throughout, though I particularly appreciated the two squirms in quick string at the very finish.
