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* SuccessionCrisis: At the start of the book High King Eldred is planning to retire and leave the throne to one of his six children. Third child Dain is the favorite, but his two eldest children, Balekin and Elowyn also have significant influence in the court. At the coronation, Eldred anounces he chose Dain, [[spoiler:but before he can crown him, Balekin starts a coup supported by general Madoc. He kills Eldred, Dain and Elowyn. He then tries to make one of his younger sister crown him (because of RoyalBlood magic, one can only be crowned by a member of the family), but one of them kills herself and the other is killed by one of Dain's men. This leaves youngest child Cardan as the only option to crown Balekin. Balekin starts searching for him, but Jude finds him first. She has also discovered that her adoptive little brother Oak is actually Prince Dain's secret illegitimate son and that Madoc planned on betraying Balekin to install Oak as his puppet king. She makes Cardan swear to obey her for a year and a day and tells him she wants him to crown Oak. However, at the last second she has Oak crown Cardan instead, meaning she now has the new High King under her control.]]
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* SuccessionCrisis: At the start of the book High King Eldred is planning to retire and leave the throne to one of his six children. Third child Dain is the favorite, but his two eldest children, Balekin and Elowyn also have significant influence in the court. At the coronation, Eldred anounces he chose Dain, [[spoiler:but before he can crown him, Balekin starts a coup supported by general Madoc. He kills Eldred, Dain and Elowyn. He then tries to make one of his younger sister sisters crown him (because of RoyalBlood magic, one can only be crowned by a member of the family), but one of them kills herself and the other is killed by one of Dain's men. This leaves youngest child Cardan as the only option to crown Balekin. Balekin starts searching for him, but Jude finds him first. She has also discovered that her adoptive little brother Oak is actually Prince Dain's secret illegitimate son and that Madoc planned on betraying Balekin to install Oak as his puppet king. She makes Cardan swear to obey her for a year and a day and tells him she wants him to crown Oak. However, at the last second she has Oak crown Cardan instead, meaning she now has the new High King under her control.]]
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* SuccessionCrisis: Averted at first, since Eldred has the exceptional luck (for someone of the Folk) to have ''six'' possible heirs for the crown, with Dain being the favored one to become the next High King, [[spoiler: then played straight when Eldred, and four of the siblings are murdered at Dain's coronation party, leaving only Balekin and Cardan. Because of RoyalBlood magic, one can only be crowned by a member of the family, meaning that the party ends with barely the exact number of people needed to crown a new king.]]
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* SuccessionCrisis: Averted at first, since At the start of the book High King Eldred has is planning to retire and leave the exceptional luck (for someone throne to one of the Folk) to have ''six'' possible heirs for the crown, with his six children. Third child Dain being is the favored one to become the next High King, [[spoiler: then played straight when Eldred, and four of the siblings are murdered at Dain's coronation party, leaving only favorite, but his two eldest children, Balekin and Cardan. Because Elowyn also have significant influence in the court. At the coronation, Eldred anounces he chose Dain, [[spoiler:but before he can crown him, Balekin starts a coup supported by general Madoc. He kills Eldred, Dain and Elowyn. He then tries to make one of his younger sister crown him (because of RoyalBlood magic, one can only be crowned by a member of the family, meaning that family), but one of them kills herself and the party ends with barely other is killed by one of Dain's men. This leaves youngest child Cardan as the exact number of people needed only option to crown Balekin. Balekin starts searching for him, but Jude finds him first. She has also discovered that her adoptive little brother Oak is actually Prince Dain's secret illegitimate son and that Madoc planned on betraying Balekin to install Oak as his puppet king. She makes Cardan swear to obey her for a year and a day and tells him she wants him to crown Oak. However, at the last second she has Oak crown Cardan instead, meaning she now has the new king.High King under her control.]]
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* KillTheParentRaiseTheChild: The protagonist, Jude, and her sisters Taryn and Vivienne were raised by Madoc, their mother Eva's first husband and Vivienne's biological father. Madoc killed Eva and Justin (Jude and Taryn's biological father), brought all three girls home with him, and raised them with his wife Oriana. He sincerely loves Jude and Taryn and treats them like they are his own. Although the sisters eventually come to love him as well, they can never forget what he did.
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* SympatheticVillainDespicableVillain: The series features a BigBadDuumvirate between TheEvilPrince Balekin Greenbriar and ColonelKilgore General Madoc. [[spoiler:Balekin is a slimy, smug piece of crap who slaughters his own family with glee and would gladly sacrifice his own people if it meant he could get the crown. In contrast, while Madoc enjoys war and conflict, he sincerely cares about the land of Elfhame, loves his children, and even takes his defeat very well.]]
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In June 2022 Holly Black announced a new duology staring [[HiddenBackUpPrince Oak]] and [[CreepyChild Queen Suren]] of the Court of Teeth. The first book, ''The Stolen Heir,'' is set to be released January 3rd, 2023.
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In June 2022 Holly Black announced [[Literature/TheStolenHeirDuology a new duology duology]] staring [[HiddenBackUpPrince Oak]] and [[CreepyChild Queen Suren]] of the Court of Teeth. The first book, ''The Stolen Heir,'' is set to be was released January 3rd, 2023.
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* INeverGotAnyLetters: In the second book, Cardan assumes that since Jude hasn't responded to any of his letters [[spoiler: rescinding her banishment and begging her to return to Elfhame]], Jude must be fed up with his nonsense and has moved on in the mortal world. In reality, [[spoiler: Cardan's mother]] has been intercepting them.
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* MuggleInMageCustody: The faerie Madoc takes the two human girls Jude and Taryn whom he orphaned and raises them as his own (together with his wife Oriana).
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** Heather seems enchanted to learn that "elves" and magic are real, but she loses her shine to them right quick when a random faerie at a party [[BalefulPolymorph almost turns her into a cat]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution admiring his cat ears]].
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** Heather seems enchanted to learn that "elves" and magic are real, but she loses her shine to them right quick when a random faerie at a party [[BalefulPolymorph [[ForcedTransformation almost turns her into a cat]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution admiring his cat ears]].
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* LogicalWeakness: Faeries cannot lie, and most never have a real conversation with people who can. As a result, they just don't know what to do with BlatantLies. A ''completely'' untrue statement (for instance, Taryn saying "I'm Jude") will fool a faerie more easily than a skillful half-truth.
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* RescueRomance: Inferred and possibly one-sided, but in ''Queen of Nothing'', Jude takes notice several times that [[spoiler: Larkin Gorm Garrett, AKA the Ghost]] is looking longingly at Taryn throughout the book after she [[spoiler: helps him hide from Madoc and stops him from killing Cardan. It's implied the two got to know each other when Ghost was working for Locke, though whether anything comes from it is left open]].
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** Bomb is in love with Roach, partly because he saved her from the Court of Teeth when she was held prisoner.
** Inferred and possibly one-sided, but in ''Queen of Nothing'', Jude takes notice several times that [[spoiler: Larkin Gorm Garrett, AKA the Ghost]] is looking longingly at Taryn throughout the book after she [[spoiler: helps him hide from Madoc and stops him from killing Cardan. It's implied the two got to know each other when Ghost was working forLocke, Locke,]] though whether anything comes from it is [[AndTheAdventureContinues left open]].
** Bomb is in love with Roach, partly because he saved her from the Court of Teeth when she was held prisoner.
** Inferred and possibly one-sided, but in ''Queen of Nothing'', Jude takes notice several times that [[spoiler: Larkin Gorm Garrett, AKA the Ghost]] is looking longingly at Taryn throughout the book after she [[spoiler: helps him hide from Madoc and stops him from killing Cardan. It's implied the two got to know each other when Ghost was working for
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* IKnowYourTrueName: One of the few things the Folk can't handle, as someone knowing their true name renders them completely obedient to any orders issued with the name. Jude notes that she's heard of faeries who've cut off their own ears in order to get out of being controlled with their names, and cut out the tongues of anyone who knows the names to prevent it from being used.
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* RescueRomance: Inferred and possibly one-sided, but in ''Queen of Nothing'', Jude takes notice several times that [[spoiler: Larkin Gorm Garrett, AKA the Ghost]] is looking longingly at Taryn throughout the book after she [[spoiler: helps him hide from Madoc and stops him from killing Cardan. It's implied the two got to know each other when Ghost was working for Locke, though whether anything comes from it is left open]].
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* NotSoDifferent: Everyone considers Jude and Taryn PolarOppositeTwins, given Jude's conniving ruthlessness and Taryn being a ProperLady. However, Jude learns the hard way in ''The Cruel Prince'' and ''The Wicked King'' that her sister can be as conniving and backstabbing as her. In ''The Queen of Nothing,'' [[spoiler:Jude and Madoc are ''impressed'' to learn Taryn killed her husband Locke, since they thought only Jude capable of doing something like that. They also laugh that Locke's fatal mistake was assuming his wife was less like her sister than he thought.]]
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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: Everyone considers Jude and Taryn PolarOppositeTwins, given Jude's conniving ruthlessness and Taryn being a ProperLady. However, Jude learns the hard way in ''The Cruel Prince'' and ''The Wicked King'' that her sister can be as conniving and backstabbing as her. In ''The Queen of Nothing,'' [[spoiler:Jude and Madoc are ''impressed'' to learn Taryn killed her husband Locke, since they thought only Jude capable of doing something like that. They also laugh that Locke's fatal mistake was assuming his wife was less like her sister than he thought.]]
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* CainAndAbel: Zig-zagged with Jude and Taryn. Despite Jude being more hotblooded, temperamental, and overtly ruthless to get what she wants, she crosses the line at deceiving or hurting her family and tends to think how her actions will affect innocents. Meanwhile, Taryn is much more nice and ladylike, but she deceives and backstabs her sister on multiple occasions, once to secure her marriage with Locke [[spoiler:and then to willingly becomes Madoc's pawn in posing as Jude to get Cardon to give control of half the army to him]].
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* TheDutifulDaughter: Taryn is on much better terms with Oriana and Madoc than either Jude or Vivienne because she's willing to be polite, obedient, and deferential, while her sisters are not. [[spoiler:She also willingly betrays Jude and deceives High King Cardan to help Madoc steal half the king's army from under his nose]].
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* TheDutifulDaughter: Taryn is on much better terms with Oriana and Madoc than either Jude or Vivienne because she's willing to be polite, obedient, and deferential, deferential to them, while her sisters are not. [[spoiler:She also willingly betrays Jude and deceives High King Cardan to help Madoc steal half the king's army from under his nose]].
* HiddenDepths: Cardan proves to be far more book-smart and politically savvy than Jude gave him credit for. [[spoiler:She also learns near the end of the series that he secretly liked mortals and frequently helped {{glamour}}ed human servants escape before Jude even learned he liked her.]]
* LadykillerInLove: Downplayed. Cardan has had many lovers and orgies before, but he falls for the comparatively chaste Jude. [[spoiler:And happily commits to her at the end of the series.]]
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* LoveMartyr: Taryn becomes this for Locke. In the first book, [[spoiler:she lets him date Jude and her at the same time without complaint to "prove" she's good enough to marry him. After they're wed, she puts up with his cheating, wild revelries, and neglect, while still playing the part of the doting wife and homemaker. It isn't until she becomes pregnant and confronts him about it that she realizes how useless he is.]]
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* LoveMartyr: Taryn becomes this for Locke. In the first book, [[spoiler:she lets him date Jude her and her sister at the same time without complaint to "prove" that she's good enough to marry him. After they're wed, she puts up with his cheating, wild revelries, and neglect, while still playing the part of the doting wife and homemaker. It isn't until she becomes pregnant and confronts him about it that she realizes how useless he is.]]
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* MindGameShip: Locke’s favorite kind.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Locke tells Jude that her family would be surprised to learn murder can't solve all their problems. Jude agrees that she would indeed find that surprising.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Locke tells Jude that her family would be surprised to learn murder can't solve all their problems. Jude agrees that she would indeed find that surprising.
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** Locke’s favorite kind.
** Subverted for Jude and Cardan in the second book. She's convinced they're in this as she slowly admits she likes him and keeps trying to stay one step ahead of his games lest he mess with or betray her. It isn't until the third book that she learns [[spoiler:Cardan often went along with her whims because he wanted her to trust him, because he sincerely liked her]].
*MurderIsTheBestSolution: MurderIsTheBestSolution:
** Locke tells Jude that her family would be surprised to learn murder can't solve all their problems. Jude agrees that she would indeed find that surprising.
** Locke’s favorite kind.
** Subverted for Jude and Cardan in the second book. She's convinced they're in this as she slowly admits she likes him and keeps trying to stay one step ahead of his games lest he mess with or betray her. It isn't until the third book that she learns [[spoiler:Cardan often went along with her whims because he wanted her to trust him, because he sincerely liked her]].
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** Locke tells Jude that her family would be surprised to learn murder can't solve all their problems. Jude agrees that she would indeed find that surprising.
* NotSoDifferent: Everyone considers Jude and Taryn PolarOppositeTwins, given Jude's conniving ruthlessness and Taryn being a ProperLady. However, Jude learns the hard way in ''The Cruel Prince'' and ''The Wicked King'' that her sister can be as conniving and backstabbing as her. In ''The Queen of Nothing,'' [[spoiler:Jude and Madoc are ''impressed'' to learn Taryn killed her husband Locke, since they thought only Jude capable of doing something like that. They also laugh that Locke's fatal mistake was assuming his wife was less like her sister than he thought.]]
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* SelectiveObliviousness: Jude suspects Vivienne is in denial about how hard Jude and Taryn had it as mortal girls raised in the Faerie world, since she refuses to take the danger that her mortal girlfriend Heather would be in seriously until it's too late.
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* SelectiveObliviousness: Jude suspects Vivienne is in denial about how hard her human sisters Jude and Taryn had it as mortal girls raised in the Faerie world, since she refuses to take Jude's warnings about the danger that her mortal girlfriend Heather would be in seriously until it's too late.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Locke considers himself a grand creator of stories, but he's really just a creep who likes scandal. Even his time as Master of Revels in ''The Wicked King'' mostly involves being a thorn in Cardan and Jude's side. [[spoiler:Even when he's killed, the inquisition into his murder is pretty half-hearted.]]
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** Jude also decides this after Dain approaches her to be his spy. Having tried to be the good, meek, fearful little mortal everyone expects never got Cardan or his GangOfBullies to leave her alone, and appealing to her father's sense of honor to become a Knight of Elfhame, she decides that she might as well become a ruthless spy and assassin to seize power by force if she can't gain love or respect from others willingly.
* TooMuchAlike: Jude often mentally notes that she and Madoc might get on better if he didn't raise her to be as ruthless, ambitious, and stubborn as he is. She notes that he'd never be okay with conceding in his quest for power to concede to her wishes or demands... nor she to his.
* TooMuchAlike: Jude often mentally notes that she and Madoc might get on better if he didn't raise her to be as ruthless, ambitious, and stubborn as he is. She notes that he'd never be okay with conceding in his quest for power to concede to her wishes or demands... nor she to his.
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** Jude also decides this after Dain approaches her to be his spy. Having tried Trying to be the good, meek, fearful little mortal everyone expects wanted her to be never got Cardan or his GangOfBullies to leave her alone, and appealing to her father's sense of honor to become a Knight of Elfhame, Elfhame didn't get her the title, so she decides that she might as well become a ruthless spy and assassin to seize power by force if she can't gain love or respect from others the fey willingly.
* TooMuchAlike: Judeoften mentally notes suspects that she and her foster father Madoc might would get on along better if he didn't raise her to be as ruthless, ambitious, and stubborn as he is. She notes that he'd knows he'll never be okay with conceding in his quest for power to concede to her wishes or demands...demands in his quest for power... nor she to his.
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* InsecureLoveInterest: Both the Bomb and the Roach are in love with each other, but believe they're not good enough for the other. Roach because (as a goblin) he's not handsome enough for the beautiful Bomb, and Bomb believes she'll never be able to repay him for rescuing and rehabilitating her from the torture and brainwashing she went through in the Court of Teeth.
* KarmicDeath: After Locke used, neglected, and played mind games with Taryn for so long, [[spoiler:she finally snapped and stabbed him in the throat, so he would finally be quiet.]]
* LoveMartyr: Taryn becomes this for Locke. In the first book, [[spoiler:she lets him date Jude and her at the same time without complaint to "prove" she's good enough to marry him. After they're wed, she puts up with his cheating, wild revelries, and neglect, while still playing the part of the doting wife and homemaker. It isn't until she becomes pregnant and confronts him about it that she realizes how useless he is.]]
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** Jude also decides this after Dain approaches her to be his spy. Having tried to be the good, meek, fearful little mortal that everyone expects her to be never got Cardan or his GangOfBullies to leave her alone, and appealing to her father's sense of honor to become a Knight of Elfhame, she decides that she might as well become a ruthless spy and assassin to seize power by force if she can't gain love or respect from others willingly.
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: After Locke reveals his true nature to Jude, she and Madoc both wonder why Taryn still likes him, since he's proven to be nothing but a selfish cad who uses and discards people for his own amusement.
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** Jude calls Taryn out on this near the end of the first book and the start of the third. While Taryn acts like a TheDutifulDaughter and a ProperLady, she can be just as scheming and backstabbing as Jude. Jude points out both times that at least she owns her treachery and ambition.
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** Jude calls Taryn out on this near the end of the first book and the start of the third. While Taryn acts like a TheDutifulDaughter and a ProperLady, she can be just as scheming and backstabbing as Jude, if not more-so since family isn't off limits to her the way it is for Jude. Jude points out both times that at least she owns her treachery and ambition.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
** Sophie, a glamoured human servant in Balekin's castle that Jude rescues, bitterly remarks that she used to wish that magic, faeries, and Tinker Bell were real, but now she can't live with knowing they are.
** Heather seems enchanted to learn that "elves" and magic are real, but she loses her shine to them right quick when a random faerie at a party [[BalefulPolymorph almost turns her into a cat]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution admiring his cat ears]].
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
** Sophie, a glamoured human servant in Balekin's castle that Jude rescues, bitterly remarks that she used to wish that magic, faeries, and Tinker Bell were real, but now she can't live with knowing they are.
** Heather seems enchanted to learn that "elves" and magic are real, but she loses her shine to them right quick when a random faerie at a party [[BalefulPolymorph almost turns her into a cat]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution admiring his cat ears]].
* CainAndAbel: Zig-zagged with Jude and Taryn. Despite Jude being more hotblooded, temperamental, and overtly ruthless to get what she wants, she crosses the line at deceiving or hurting her family and tends to think how her actions will affect innocents. Meanwhile, Taryn is much more nice and ladylike, but she deceives and backstabs her sister on multiple occasions, once to secure her marriage with Locke [[spoiler:and then to willingly becomes Madoc's pawn in posing as Jude to get Cardon to give control of half the army to him]].
* JerkassHasAPoint: Taryn is wrong to betray Jude as many times as she does, though at the end of ''The Cruel Prince'' she rightly points out that Jude chose to keep antagonizing Cardan and his GangOfBullies no matter how many times Taryn begged her not to, even after Cardan started targeting Taryn just for being Jude's sister, as Jude didn't seem to care at the time that her continued defiance would hurt her sister too.
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* LimaSyndrome: Madoc grows to love Jude and Taryn as his own daughters, despite murdering their parents and dragging them to Faerie against their will due to his own sense of honor and responsibility. Orianna remarks at one point that he is completely ''"besotted"'' with them.
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* LimaSyndrome: Madoc grows grew to love Jude and Taryn as his own daughters, despite murdering their parents and dragging them to Faerie against their will due to his own sense of honor and responsibility. Orianna remarks at one point that he is completely ''"besotted"'' with them.
* ProperLady: Orianna (the Duarte sisters' stepmom) is this through and through. Taryn also grows into this after marrying Locke.
* SelectiveObliviousness: Jude suspects Vivienne is in denial about how hard Jude and Taryn had it as mortal girls raised in the Faerie world, since she refuses to take the danger that her mortal girlfriend Heather would be in seriously until it's too late.
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* ThenLetMeBeEvil: The reason why Cardan got his reputation. When he was a child, his brother Dain dared him to shoot a walnut off a glamoured mortal's head. Instinct told Cardan to stay his hand because he felt it wasn't sporting and something was off that day. Dain then shot Cardan's arrow and told it as if Cardan had been the one to shoot the mortal. From that day on, with his mother getting punished in his stead and being given to an abusive brother, Cardan decided to be the monster that everyone thought he was.
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** The reason why Cardan got his reputation. When he was a child, his brother Dain dared him to shoot a walnut off a glamoured mortal's head. Instinct told Cardan to stay his hand because he felt it wasn't sporting and something was off that day. Dain then shot Cardan's arrow and told it as if Cardan had been the one to shoot the mortal. From that day on, with his mother getting punished in his stead and being given to an abusive brother, Cardan decided to be the monster that everyone thought he was.
** Jude also decides this after Dain approaches her to be his spy. Having tried to be the good, meek, fearful little mortal that everyone expects her to be never got Cardan or his GangOfBullies to leave her alone, and appealing to her father's sense of honor to become a Knight of Elfhame, she decides that she might as well become a ruthless spy and assassin to seize power by force if she can't gain love or respect from others willingly.
* TooMuchAlike: Jude often mentally notes that she and Madoc might get on better if he didn't raise her to be as ruthless, ambitious, and stubborn as he is. She notes that he'd never be okay with conceding in his quest for power to concede to her wishes or demands... nor she to his.
* WickedStepmother: Averted; Oriana is Madoc's second wife and doesn't try to hide her distaste for his adopted mortal children, but she never antagonizes them either. She even acts somewhat friendly toward Taryn and tries to give Jude advice and guidance at times, even if the latter rarely heeds it.
** The reason why Cardan got his reputation. When he was a child, his brother Dain dared him to shoot a walnut off a glamoured mortal's head. Instinct told Cardan to stay his hand because he felt it wasn't sporting and something was off that day. Dain then shot Cardan's arrow and told it as if Cardan had been the one to shoot the mortal. From that day on, with his mother getting punished in his stead and being given to an abusive brother, Cardan decided to be the monster that everyone thought he was.
** Jude also decides this after Dain approaches her to be his spy. Having tried to be the good, meek, fearful little mortal that everyone expects her to be never got Cardan or his GangOfBullies to leave her alone, and appealing to her father's sense of honor to become a Knight of Elfhame, she decides that she might as well become a ruthless spy and assassin to seize power by force if she can't gain love or respect from others willingly.
* TooMuchAlike: Jude often mentally notes that she and Madoc might get on better if he didn't raise her to be as ruthless, ambitious, and stubborn as he is. She notes that he'd never be okay with conceding in his quest for power to concede to her wishes or demands... nor she to his.
* WickedStepmother: Averted; Oriana is Madoc's second wife and doesn't try to hide her distaste for his adopted mortal children, but she never antagonizes them either. She even acts somewhat friendly toward Taryn and tries to give Jude advice and guidance at times, even if the latter rarely heeds it.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Most travesties committed by Madoc, Dain, Balekin, and Jude is due to their ambitious lust for power. Cardan, for all his faults, lacks this vice.
* AtLeastIAdmitIt:
** Jude learns near the end of ''The Cruel Prince'' that Dain is just as bad as Balekin and both are worse than Cardan. Despite Cardan being singled out as the worst of Eldred's children, he's proven to be more ethical than his brothers behind closed doors, and is only viewed as the worst because he didn't bother to hide his vices like them. (And acted out to get attention.)
** Jude calls Taryn out on this near the end of the first book and the start of the third. While Taryn acts like a TheDutifulDaughter and a ProperLady, she can be just as scheming and backstabbing as Jude. Jude points out both times that at least she owns her treachery and ambition.
* AtLeastIAdmitIt:
** Jude learns near the end of ''The Cruel Prince'' that Dain is just as bad as Balekin and both are worse than Cardan. Despite Cardan being singled out as the worst of Eldred's children, he's proven to be more ethical than his brothers behind closed doors, and is only viewed as the worst because he didn't bother to hide his vices like them. (And acted out to get attention.)
** Jude calls Taryn out on this near the end of the first book and the start of the third. While Taryn acts like a TheDutifulDaughter and a ProperLady, she can be just as scheming and backstabbing as Jude. Jude points out both times that at least she owns her treachery and ambition.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Most of TheFairFolk who act nice are actually this. Also Taryn to an extent; she acts like TheDutifulDaughter to Oriana and Madoc and a ProperLady to most fey, but her many betrayals of Jude's trust reveals that she can be as scheming and backstabbing as the rest of them.
* TheDutifulDaughter: Taryn is on much better terms with Oriana and Madoc than either Jude or Vivienne because she's willing to be polite, obedient, and deferential, while her sisters are not. [[spoiler:She also willingly betrays Jude and deceives High King Cardan to help Madoc steal half the king's army from under his nose]].
* FromACertainPointOfView: TheFairFolk can't lie directly, so they use omissions and half-truths for all they're worth.
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** Jude and Taryn are better daughters and heirs to Madoc than Vivienne, despite being mortal and not his blood children as Vivi is.
** Of Madoc's four children, faerie-blooded Vivienne and Oak vastly prefer living in the mortal world, while the mortal-born Jude and Taryn prefer to remain in Faerie.
** Jude and Taryn are better daughters and heirs to Madoc than Vivienne, despite being mortal and not his blood children as Vivi is.
** Of Madoc's four children, faerie-blooded Vivienne and Oak vastly prefer living in the mortal world, while the mortal-born Jude and Taryn prefer to remain in Faerie.
* LimaSyndrome: Madoc grows to love Jude and Taryn as his own daughters, despite murdering their parents and dragging them to Faerie against their will due to his own sense of honor and responsibility. Orianna remarks at one point that he is completely ''"besotted"'' with them.
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* TangledFamilyTree: Not nearly as bad as it could have been, but [[spoiler: Oak is Cardan's nephew and Jude's (adoptive) brother. Meaning that he is also Jude's nephew and Cardan's brother-in-law. If Jude and Cardan ever had a kid, Oak would be the child's uncle and cousin.]]
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* TangledFamilyTree: Not nearly as bad as it could have been, but [[spoiler: Oak is Cardan's nephew and Jude's (adoptive) brother. Meaning that he is also Jude's nephew and Cardan's brother-in-law. If Jude and Cardan ever had a kid, Oak would be the child's uncle and cousin.]] What's more, he's [[spoiler:Locke's biological half-brother, and Taryn's adopted brother. After Taryn marries Locke and becomes pregnant with his child, this makes Oak both the child's uncle from both parents.]]
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* HornedHairdo: Jude's most prominent style is her hair styled into upturned horns, done by Tatterfell, her house servant.
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* JerkassRealization: ''Queen of Nothing'' has Taryn suffering one for all her actions. She manipulated Jude, served as Madoc's pawn willingly, and was more than happy to throw her blood sisters under the bus to [[spoiler:marry Locke. Taryn gets a big one when Jude agrees to pose as her for a glamour inquest, which ends in Madoc "rescuing" who he thinks is Taryn by kidnapping her and later stabbing Jude fatally. Taryn noticeably has a horrified expression as Jude struggles to walk while losing blood, and stitches her up without complaint]].
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* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Jude starts doing this at the suggestion of Prince Dain.
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* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Jude starts doing this at the suggestion of Prince Dain. It ends up saving her at a critical time.
* BigSisterInstinct: Both Vivienne and Jude agree about one thing: Oak is off-limits from the Faerie politics. Vivienne also tried to bring her sisters with her in her first escape from Faerie; she only let them return to Madoc's household when they couldn't adjust to normal life.
* HeelRealization: Cardan doesn't react well in ''Queen of Nothing'' when he and Jude reunite after she nearly dies saving him from an assassin. Jude calls him out for [[spoiler:the exile]] and thinking they were cool. [[spoiler:He honestly told her that he used ExactWords to exile her and then revoke the banishment at the same time, but ''no'' one picked up on it, including Jude. Cardan hadn't realized that he hurt Jude's feelings, her pride, and her trust in him all at once. He said he wasn't sure she was ''capable'' of being broken. To top it all off, when attempting to send letters of reconciliation, he took a while to revoke the banishment and didn't know how mortal mail worked. Needless to say, Cardan is disappointed and kicking himself when Jude says of course she didn't trust him because you can't trust the Folk]].
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* LandOfFaerie: Unlike the author previous series, this one takes place almost excluively on Faerie, specifically Elfhame.
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* LandOfFaerie: Unlike the author previous series, this one takes place almost excluively exclusively on Faerie, specifically Elfhame.Elfhame.
* LaserGuidedKarma: In a fit of spite and wounded pride, Madoc killed his wife and her new husband in front of their daughter and his stepkids before essentially kidnapping the little ones and adopting them all. Vivienne, his only full-blooded daughter, said nuts to that and ran back to the mortal world as soon as she was old enough. [[spoiler:The trilogy ends with Jude sentencing him to live in the mortal realm for the rest of his days; Vivienne and Oak are willing to tolerate him at least.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: In a fit of spite and wounded pride, Madoc killed his wife and her new husband in front of their daughter and his stepkids before essentially kidnapping the little ones and adopting them all. Vivienne, his only full-blooded daughter, said nuts to that and ran back to the mortal world as soon as she was old enough. [[spoiler:The trilogy ends with Jude sentencing him to live in the mortal realm for the rest of his days; Vivienne and Oak are willing to tolerate him at least.]]
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* WrongGuyFirst: Locke is played up as the member of Cardan’s posse with less stomach for cruelty who takes a shine to Jude and gets her to drop her guard. Too bad he’s really into scandal and seduced her just to form a rift between her and Taryn.
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* ThenLetMeBeEvil: The reason why Cardan got his reputation. When he was a child, his brother Dain dared him to shoot a walnut off a glamoured mortal's head. Instinct told Cardan to stay his hand because he felt it wasn't sporting and something was off that day. Dain then shot Cardan's arrow and told it as if Cardan had been the one to shoot the mortal. From that day on, with his mother getting punished in his stead and being given to an abusive brother, Cardan decided to be the monster that everyone thought he was.
* WrongGuyFirst: Locke is played up as the member of Cardan’s posse with less stomach for cruelty who takes a shine to Jude and gets her to drop her guard. Too bad he’s really into scandal and seduced her just to form a rift between her andTaryn.Taryn.
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* WrongGuyFirst: Locke is played up as the member of Cardan’s posse with less stomach for cruelty who takes a shine to Jude and gets her to drop her guard. Too bad he’s really into scandal and seduced her just to form a rift between her and
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: The supplemental material reveals that [[spoiler:after banishing Jude, Carden missed her. He wrote letters inviting her back to Faerie. Besides the fact that it took him a few letters to realize that he didn't revoke the banishment, he doesn't have her address or a means of reaching Vivienne's place. In the main book series, Jude tells Carden she never got his letters, for those reasons]].
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: The supplemental material reveals that [[spoiler:after banishing Jude, Carden missed her. He wrote letters inviting her back to Faerie. Besides the fact that it took him a few letters to realize that he didn't revoke the banishment, he doesn't have her address or a means of reaching Vivienne's place. In the main book series, Jude tells Carden she never got his letters, for those reasons]].reasons. On top of that, in the main series it becomes clear that, while he may have pardoned her in the letters to get her to come home, he didn't tell anyone ''else'' that she was pardoned; when she's discovered in the royal palace attempting to prevent Carden's assassination, the guards there are ready to kill her on sight]].
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: The supplemental material reveals that [[spoiler:after banishing Jude, Carden missed her. He wrote letters inviting her back to Faerie. Besides the fact that it took him a few letters to realize that he didn't revoke the banishment, he doesn't have her address or a means of reaching Vivienne's place. In the main book series, Jude tells Carden she never got his letters, for those reasons]].
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* CrossingTheBurntBridge: Thanks to the events of the books, Taryn and Jude are estranged. Book three starts with Taryn asking Jude for help. Jude at first understandably refuses, pointing out that [[spoiler:even if she wants to help, she's got a little problem called exiled from Fairie]].
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*** Jude herself does this [[spoiler: to Cardan, she convinced him of swearing an oath of obedience to her for a whole year in exchange of promising him that if he helped her have Oak crowned he would be able to walk away from Court, she instead had Oak crowing him so he would basically be a puppet king for her.]]
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*** Jude herself does this [[spoiler: to Cardan, she convinced him of swearing an oath of obedience to her for a whole year in exchange of promising him that if he helped her have Oak crowned he would be able to walk away from Court, she instead had Oak crowing crowning him so he would basically be a puppet king for her.]]
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*** The Ghost pulls this on [[spoiler: Jude, by aiding the minions of Queen Orlagh to abduct her which eventually lead to her to be made prisoner and tortured, his reasoning? Because he served Prince Dain, not her.]]
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*** The Ghost pulls this on [[spoiler: Jude, by aiding the minions of Queen Orlagh to abduct her which eventually lead to her to be being made prisoner and tortured, his reasoning? Because he served Prince Dain, not her.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Supplemental material in ''The Queen Of Nothing'' revealed that although [[spoiler:Carden banished Jude when she took the {{Geas}} off him and left her to rot, he did send multiple letters that she never received in the mortal realm. Several of them have him admit that he misses her, and asks where she is. He even writes that he revokes the banishment if that's what it will take for her to return. While he can't write out a full apology, and their relationship is beyond apologies, he comes close to it]].
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* MadnessMantra: What Jude thinks she's found when she [[spoiler: finds Cardan's diary with pages of just her name written over and over and over in all capital letters.]] It's seen again in the final letter of the Barnes and Noble edition of ''Queen of Nothing'''s exclusive "[[https://bookishowlette.wordpress.com/2020/03/06/cardans-letters-to-jude/ Cardan's Letters to Jude]]" where [[https://bookishowlette.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/g.jpg the pages are stained with ink from his frantic writing]], giving it a desperate and unhinged look.
