The Cruel Prince

So, I did end up reading The Cruel Prince by Holly Black. And I just gotta ask: who was this book for? I know genres like "Young Adult" are pretty much fake and for marketing, but I don't think putting middle grade writing and a smattering of violence & making out and calling it YA should be a thing. The whiplash from contemporary banality to attempted murder and back was also jarring (kind of like the jumps in These Witches Don't Burn. Is this a thing?!)

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This book was not about fairies. This book was about people the author called "fairies."

No one needs to know that my hopes were dashed. No one needs to know I ever had any hope at all.