Fierce and observant Jude is utterly unaware of the currents that swirl around her. Black’s latest looks at nature and nurture and spins a tale of court intrigue, bloodshed, and a truly messed-up relationship that might be the saving of Jude and the titular prince, who, like Jude, has been shaped by the cruelties of others. Brought up among the Gentry, Jude has never felt at ease, but after a decade, Faerie has become her home despite the constant peril. Human Jude (whose brown hair curls and whose skin color is never described) both hates and loves Madoc, whose murderous nature is true to his Faerie self and who in his way loves her.
Jude-broken, rebuilt, fueled by anger and a sense of powerlessness-has never recovered from watching her adoptive Faerie father murder her parents. The cast, unsurprisingly, is an all-white one.Īn intriguing exploration of the intersection of politics, religion, and customs of the period-historical fiction at its best.īlack is back with another dark tale of Faerie, this one set in Faerie and launching a new trilogy. Her most prized possession is a copy of Newton’s Principia she’s been taught to speak the King’s English rather than with the broad Scottish accent of her family and she has the freedom to choose her life’s path during a time when women had very few choices. Third-person narration alternates between Jenna and Alex, but it’s Jenna’s freethinking that will pull readers in. Jenna and Alex inevitably meet and fall in love, but if Alex discovers Jenna’s secret, her life, and those of her family, will be forfeit. His father, the Duke of Keswick, has hired the masons to build a garrison to imprison and execute Jacobites-but Jenna’s family has other plans for the structure: to aid the rebellion. Alex, Lord Pembroke, has a duty to support George I’s government as inheritor of his father’s seat in the House of Lords.
Jenna’s family, Scottish stonemasons, are Jacobites secretly working to return James to the throne in accordance with the divine right of kings. James Stuart lives in exile, and George of the German House of Hannover is about to ascend the throne. It’s 1714 Great Britain, and a rebellion is brewing.
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