After reading 'The Folk of the Air' trilogy, I had high expectations for this book but this book did not live up to them, and that is why I gave this book 3.25 stars. I had heard mixed reviews on this book but I decided to give it a go, the only reason this book got the rating I gave it was because of the Jude and Cardan mentions. I am gonna read the next book in the series but I am gonna go into with low exceptions as I don't think it'll be much better than this book.

Quotes:
- “She's going to want to wear your skull for a hat," Oak warns. There is an uncomfortable shifting among the ex-falcons. Perhaps they are recalling their own choice to denounce her, their own punishment. "And Cardan is going to laugh and laugh when she does.”
- “My sister thinks that she’s the only one who can take poison, but I am poison,' he whispers, eyes half-closed, talking to himself. 'Poison in my blood. I poison everything I touch.”
- “The Folk adore Cardan, and they’re terrified of my sister, two excellent things. I hope they rule Elfhame for a years and then pass it down to one of a dozen offspring. No need for me to be involved.”
- “That's what I've been for years. An unsister. An undaughter. An unperson. A girl with a hole for a life. How appropriate to have my tongue cut out, when silence has been my refuge and my cage.”
- “Fear is not love, but it can appear much the same.”
- “But I can't pretend that I don't like the sound of him screaming my name.”
- “Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame. Son of the traitorous Grand General and brother to the mortal High Queen. Oak, to whom I was once promised in marriage. Who had once been my friend, although he doesn’t seem to remember it.”

Tropes:
- Forbidden Love
- Enemies to Lovers (?)
- Forced Proximity