Fierce and observant Jude is utterly unaware of the currents that swirl around her. Black’s latest looks at nature and nurture and spins a tale of court intrigue, bloodshed, and a truly messed-up relationship that might be the saving of Jude and the titular prince, who, like Jude, has been shaped by the cruelties of others. Brought up among the Gentry, Jude has never felt at ease, but after a decade, Faerie has become her home despite the constant peril. Human Jude (whose brown hair curls and whose skin color is never described) both hates and loves Madoc, whose murderous nature is true to his Faerie self and who in his way loves her. Jude-broken, rebuilt, fueled by anger and a sense of powerlessness-has never recovered from watching her adoptive Faerie father murder her parents. You may be ready to put a stake in vampire lit, but read this first: It’s dark and dangerous, bloody and brilliant.īlack is back with another dark tale of Faerie, this one set in Faerie and launching a new trilogy. Perhaps most unexpectedly, there is no happy ending, just a thread of hope in humanity. There’s dry humor and even a relationship (to call it a romance would be too easy this is something entirely more complex). What follows is a journey that takes her into Coldtown and out of the grief that has plagued her for years, with plenty of sharply observed characters and situations that feel absurdly, horribly believable. When nihilistic Tana, whose emptiness seems to stem from events surrounding her mother’s infection with vampirism, wakes up in a blood bath to find her ex-boyfriend infected and a terrifying but gorgeous vampire chained beside him, she is determined to make things right. Outside, people avoid going out after dark, watch endless feeds from Coldtown parties and idolize vampire hunters.
As much as possible, they are contained in walled Coldtowns, along with humans who idolize them-or were trapped when the walls went up. Ten years ago, a vampire “started romanticizing himself” and went on a rampage, turning people until new vampires were everywhere. This eagerly anticipated novel (based on Black’s short story of the same name) bears little relation to the sparkle-infused vampire tales of the last decade.
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