The Queen Of Nothing - Blog Posts
Do you think Cardan stole Jude's ring because he had already planned to marry her or he stole the ring cause he liked it and then thought "I will marry Jude... oh look, I can give her her ring"?
I finished The Queen of Nothing and now Idk what to do with myself. I need more jurdan
I can't stand how amazing The Queen of Nothing is!!
I need a whole new series just about Cardan's and Jude's relationship. They are just perfect!
“It’s okay to want something that’s going to hurt”
— Holly Black (The Queen of Nothing)
I think the full gravity of qon's climax just hit me again. Jude, who schemed so much to keep Cardan under her control in the previous books, didn't choose to do that again when she got the chance to. She had the chance to get alot of power, control over cardan and others, the chance to rule undisputed, to never be afraid again. But she didn't choose it. She chose Cardan instead. Chose him over herself too (she mentions she isn't sure if she'll be able to bear the pain of losing him). She let go of all that she wanted before because she didn't want to give Cardan a life of misery, of being trapped. She set him free, only to find him again.
SHE CHOSE CARDAN AND HIS LOVE OVER EVERY-FUCKING-THING ELSE—
brb while I weep again.
Can we get a “Court Of Frost And Starlight” moment with Jude and Cardan, Holly?... or ummm
I just finished The Queen Of Nothing..
I already miss them so much.
It was a wonderful series that I read faster then I have any story in a long time. I read Cruel Prince immediately and waited for Queen Of Nothing to come out so I could read Wicked King and Queen of Nothing back to back.
Jude was a charcter unlike any other that I have read before. Her and Cardan’s relationship make me laugh, smile, and cry many times.
Reading those books kinda felt like going on a rollercoaster ride. So many ups and downs, schemes, and betrayals. I don’t know if I will enjoy a book as much ever agian.
Props to Holly Black for writing a great series and one that I will reread many times over. I know I will miss these charcters deeply.
I read tfota at like 14/15, i am now 18 and you don't understand the grip it put on me forever
Cardan Greenbriar is such a T*ryn hater and he's so real for that
you do realize that jude and cardan saw each other since they were kids right???????????? like, the general's mortal daughter, it was surely a constant topic among the high fae and besides, they probably studied together when they were younger than in tcp. THAT MAKES ME WANT TO SCREAM
Reread this for the 373373736464 time
despite of everything i love madoc. i know he was awful and backstabbed jude after he helped build herself up, but he just loves her so much it hurts me. that scene where he is like "i am your father" and jude replies "you're my father's murderer" and the man just murmurs that "he could be both"..... HURTS??????? He always claimed her as HIS 😭 AND after reading the stolen heir it breaks me a little more.
Madoc always loved Jude the most. He was so proud of her, even if he wanted what she had. Perhaps he was FIRST person to ever see her true potential, and i just know that even when they were enemies, he was proud. (Dont touch me i love their father x daughter tragical story)
When Cardan punched Locke by the stairs it altered my brain chemistry in the best way
Cardan Greenbriar is actually too clever and he deserves credit for it
T*ryn Duarte is the worst fictional sister to ever exist like omg how can you be so stupid and unbearable
how am I gonna fall in love when no one will ever tell me they're forever undone by me and that i'm their sweet villain and darling god and their sickness and their sweet nemesis and the object of an obsession that disgusts them enough to think about the way i walk or the callouses of my fingers or the curls of my hair or an absent bite of my lip and-
do you think daily about the fact that Cardan thought Jude was ignoring his letters or are you normal?
pov : the slow corruption of slowly becoming apart of the cruel prince fandom *cough* cult *cough*
did a Jude cosplay 👍🏻
Cardan: Let's play Kiss, Marry and Kill!
Jude: I already did.
Cardan: What?
Jude: With you.
Cardan: ........ OHH!
Not a day goes by when I am not obsessing over Cardan's tail.
continuing from this post, i think i’ve figured out why i ship talisto and i blame it all on holly black: jude duarte and cardan greenbriar are talia and mephisto coded.
lemme try to explain the dynamics.
Jude & Talia
What’s there to say? They’re both badass strategists and natural-born leaders. They will make themselves heard and will not take nor tolerate bullshit. They are both clever with their plans and also don’t trust easily. Their guards are up constantly and they don’t tell their allies/friends everything (ie Jude’s coup and the whole Princess Brenda thing). They have also adapted to the rapid and traumatic changes in their lives — Jude with the murder of her parents and Talia with the fall of Xeris — and of course the adapting to a new world.
Sure, Jude takes things to an extreme by pursuing murder on occasion, but you can’t tell me that Talia wouldn’t do the same in her shoes (albeit with some hesitancy, but none the less will do so as a last resort). These two girls are a force to be reckoned with, and do all the research necessary to make sure they know all the facts and know all the plays to win.
Cardan & Mephisto
I don’t need to explain this. It’s so obvious that Holly went so far as to basically make Mephisto Cardan’s faceclaim.
Cardan and Mephisto are both younger siblings, so they are familiar with the shadow of their older — and better, in the eyes of their father figures or something — siblings. They also both have no shame in being the villain of their stories while also being sorta carefree and charismatic I MEAN LOOK AT THEM!! But they also, deep in the core of their soul, have goodness and love inside, and a strong urge to protect and sacrifice everything for those closest to them (Jude and Praxina respectively). They grow over the duration of their screentime/booktime into lovable and openly more caring characters.
Seriously guys the parallels between them are right fucking there.
Jurdan & Talisto
What else can I say? Enemies-to-lovers is the superior trope and if the Jurdan dynamic — while slightly questionable bc ✨bully romance✨ and just general canonical confusion — doesn’t give you tingles, imagine the applied to Talisto’s already current dynamic. I can already see Talia’s fuming face ready to absolutely destroy Mephisto and his obnoxious, degrading laughter as he walks away in Faerieland during their lessons. I can also see how the turns have tabled with Talia holding a knife to Mephisto’s neck and Talia’s grinning face as she pulls of the greatest coup in history…
I guess what I’m saying is that I would not be opposed to a Talisto Cruel Prince AU because it just makes sense.
Someone please tell me why whenever I imagine Cardan Greenbriar, all I can see is Mephisto from LoliRock.
Remember when Cardan said "Jude jude jude jude jude jude jude jude..." and achieved poetic cinema?
“Everyone finds different lessons in stories, I suppose, but here’s one: Having a heart is terrible, but you need one anyway. It doesn’t matter if the boy with the heart of stone was the villain. It doesn’t matter if he got what he deserved. No one’s heart has to remain stone.”
~Holly Black, Hthkoelths
“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
~Cardan Greenbriar, The Queen of Nothing
I stare at her. “And you’re giving me this warning out of the kindness of your heart?”
She smiles. “I am giving you this warning because it doesn’t matter. You’re already doomed, Queen of Elfhame. You already love him. You already loved him when you questioned me about him instead of your own mother. And you will still love him, mortal girl, long after his feelings evaporate like morning dew.”
~ The Queen of Nothing, Holly Black.
“Jude, you can’t really think I don’t know it’s you. I knew you from the moment you walked into the brugh.”
~ The Queen of Nothing
“He finds her fascinating. He’s always found her fascinating, but he is not foolish enough to tell her that. Especially not in this moment, when he is afraid of her.”
#OutofContextPrisonersThrone Via TheNovl