👑 Messy high school drama and a complicated home life set in a dark faerie world will keep you turning the page--and literally gasping out loud in moments you don't see coming. 👑

Jude was seven when she, her twin sister and their big sister were stolen from the human world and forced to live in a dangerous faerie one. Fast-forward a decade, and every possible tension is amplified. Jude wants to not only fit in, but do so by earning a place of honor as a human among faeries on her own merit. The problem? Her expanded family, her peers and pretty much everyone else around her is plotting something, keeping secrets or actively making her life miserable (including fellow classmate/cruelest son of the retiring king) She has to find a way to be even more strategic than those around her if she can get what she wants.

I read this book in one day. Action, surprises, emotion, choices--it all kept me guessing and moving forward until the very end. Holly Black is about to get blamed for a lot of people disappearing from this world to dive into hers (sorry about that deadline, boss!). Wow. This was some damn fine writing. Highly recommend to lovers of fantasy, and those who are just stepping their toe into the genre.