#The prisoners throne spoilers

[janescrazy]

Cardan: I need to talk to you about something.

Oak: I get it. You hate me. You’re going to have me killed. You’re going to lock me up. Beat me. Yell at me. I understand. You thought I was trying to kill you and take the throne, and I should’ve came to you and talked to you. I am so sorry please don’t hate me.

Cardan: …I don’t know about any of that but ANYWAY what I DO KNOW is that i knew your tricks before Jude did. I am LITERALLY so smart. Big brain. so big i need a bigger crown. i have never been so smart. jude is never living this down. GET WRECKED

#the prisoners throne #tpt #the prisoners throne spoilers #cardan greenbriar #jude duarte #oak greenbriar #the cruel prince

[thejudeduarte]

Me every time Jude or cardan do anything in tpt:

#jurdan #tfota #the prisoners throne #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #jude x cardan #oak greenbriar #the stolen heir #oak x suren #oakwren #oak x wren #tpt #The prisoners throne spoilers #tsh #the folk of the air #folk of the air

[peletiersdixon]

Spoilers for The Prisoner’s Throne

Not Madoc giving me the most emotional responses in this book. 🥹

Listen, Madoc is the most complex, the most morally grey, the most treacherous, and yet, I adore him.

#the prisoners throne spoilers #the prisoners throne #lit #Holly black #tfota #madoc

[abruisedmuse]

This is their relationship now 😭

#listen. listennnn #i know this is foul but yall cant blame me #blame holly #tpt spoilers #the prisoners throne spoilers #the prisoners throne #taryn duarte #the ghost #jurdan #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #the roach #the bomb #the court of shadows #oak greenbriar #suren #wren #tfota #the wicked king #the cruel prince #the queen of nothing

[murasaki-cha]

Ok The Prisoner's Throne broke me, but you know what was the funniest part of the entire book?

Oak being the noisiest bitch in the entirety of Elfhame. That boy was always listening!

When he accidentally listened in to Jude and Cardan's private conversation in the prologue and in the end when Jude was with Cardan while he was recovering. LITERALLY EVERY TIME HYACINTHE AND TIERNAN WAS INTERACTING!!

No because he was INVESTED into Hyacinthe and Tiernan's relationship! Boy was carrying the entire fate of Elfhame and his relationship with Wren on his back for the whole book but damn him if he didn't give couple counseling to his otp any chance he would get! And he was always eavesdropping into their conversations!

Love that for him

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[somefandom]

#here i did it #i‘m just creating the content myself #tiernan x hyacinthe #hyacinthe #tiernan #tfota #the prisoners throne #the prisoners throne spoilers #the stolen heir #oak

[highladyofterrasen7]

Oak is so lucky jurdan decided not to bang.

#the prisoners throne #the prisoners throne spoilers #prisoners throne #the stolen heir #fota #tfota #oak greenbriar #cardan greenbriar #jude duarte #jurdan

[deathsweetblossoms]

The Prisoners Throne thoughts

Spoilers beneath cut! Heads up for a critical review but a positive Jurdan review 😂

Also did anyone catch the Roiben and Kaye mention? It was subtle but it was there..

I’m a little all over the place with my initial thoughts on the whole thing, but here are my main takeaways:

The pacing was weak, especially in the build up (or lack of build up) to Oak’s discovery of The Ghost being the main poisoner of his mother. In the span of two chapters, Oak goes from incandescent rage towards Ghost and his sisters/family, to then processing all of that because of the Ghost’s death?

My issue here is we never really saw Oak talking to his family despite his POV lamenting that they avoid uncomfortable topics. He’s right. They do. And so I would’ve liked for a genuine heart to heart.

On the topic of the Ghost’s death — what the fuck? Also incredibly weak. We didn’t spend enough time getting to know Garrett for that death to be impactful in any way (unless you are me and you’ve been crushing on the Ghost for years). The attitude around the entire thing was so blasé that I genuinely thought he was going to be brought back to life in a few pages.. I just don’t understand what Holly was trying to do here.

Overall this probably needed to be a trilogy so she could develop more of these ideas, because even the romance with Oak and Suren felt a little off kilter to me.

Otherwise, every Jurdan scene was incredible. Cardan, despite his few appearances, carried this whole book on his back for me. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE OAK. The tragedy of his upbringing, the way he was supposed to have a happy childhood but was turned into a monster by Madoc is so bittersweet.

I think the abdication of being heir was solved a little too easily? But it did leave the door open for some speculation about a Jurdan baby 👀

I was right about the political problem being about the Undersea and I’m really wondering if she’s going to write that from Jurdan POV or from Nicasia.. so that’s exciting!

I wish we had more *Elfhame* in this book. Where was the magic of TCP? I just felt something was lacking and I can’t put my finger on what.

Suren having a rebirth moment like Cardan only adds to my criticism that Oak/Suren has too many similarities to Jurdan that I wish had been avoided — BUT. I love the imagery of it and I’m happy our monster girl got the happy ending she deserves.

A lot of these Cardan moments had me going absolutely insane — him protecting Jude? Him playing with Leander? Oak pointing out that Cardan is brave and picked up a sword to fight in the end as well? Omg!!

How do I feel? Weird. I’m NGL, I feel kind of strange about this book. Perhaps I need to reread the duology or the entire series.

Some other odd things I noticed:

Lady Asha is still alive and kicking it at court? Lol.

Oak thought Taryn was the kind hearted sister who wanted a gentler world

The amount of dead deer imagery (the deer heart in the Citadel, the dead deer on Madoc’s clothes) that made Oak feel ill at ease was equal parts cute and sad LOL. My sweet hoof boy 🥹

The removal of Valerian’s curse and the confirmation that there was, in fact, a curse. What does this mean for Jude going forward?

#the prisoners throne #jurdan #the folk of the air #tfota #oak greenbriar #the prisoners throne spoilers

[mistylakeee]

Also MINOR SPOILERS can we talk about how Wren devoured with the whole “Jude you have a geas and a curse on you lolz what if I remove them.” Jude must’ve been shitting her pants. Can you imagine if Wren just removed Dain’s geas? Jude going back to being able to be glamoured? Her biggest fear ever? INSANE. The absolute power move that would be for Wren. I wouldn’t even know who to root for. And the fact Cardan didn’t even know about the geas or the curse? TEA. Don’t even get me started on the implications of Valerian’s half curse that I’ve literally thought about since reading the first book. IM EATING THIS BOOK UP AMD IM NOT EVEN DONE

#the prisoners throne spoilers #the prisoners throne #wren #oak greenbriar #tfota #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #oak x wren #support wren’s wrongs #jk wren can do nothing wrong #neither can Jude

[crazysublimenightmare]

"Stabbity stab, knife wife"

#the cruel prince #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #the stolen heir #the prisoners throne #the prisoners throne spoilers

[janescrazy]

*jude , oak, and wren trying to have a discussion*

cardan: JUDE ??? jude ??? a CURSE?? WIFE?? HELLO?? can we talk about this CURSE you have that you didn’t tell me ??

#tpt #the prisoners throne spoilers #the prisoners throne #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #oak greenbriar #wren

[thejudeduarte]

"We do not love because people deserve it-nor would I want to be loved because I was the most deserving of some list of candidates. I want to be loved for my worst self as well as my best. I want to be forgiven my flaws."

-Tiernan, The Prisoners Throne

#I loved that okay!!??😭🫶 #tiernan #hyacinthe #tiernan x hyacinthe #couldn't have said it any better myself #tfota #the prisoners throne #The prisoners throne spoilers #tpt #oak x suren #queen suren #oak x wren #oak and suren #oak greenbriar #oakwren #oak and wren #wren #suren #oaksuren #the stolen heir #tsh #sorry I couldn't put a spoiler warning 😞

[valiant-trashmouth]

Oak and hyacinth thinking riding a fucking kelpie through the ocean and expecting it to not drown them was a good idea and then immediately almost dying has me so dead

Hyacinth fucking half drowning “oAk tHiS WaS a BaD iDeA”

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[abruisedmuse]

Holly Black never fails to be like, "here's the main love interest. He's a faerie prince and an idiot."

#oak greenbriar #cardan greenbriar #the folk of the air #the prisoners throne spoilers #the prisoners throne #jurdan #jude duarte #suren #holly black #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing

[murasaki-cha]

The Prisoner's Throne spoilers!!

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As Oak watches, Jude emerges from a carriage. Ten years into her reign, she doesn’t bother waiting for a knight or page to hand her down as would be proper, but simply jumps out. She hasn’t bothered with a gown today, either, but wears a pair of high boots, tight-fitting trousers, and a vestlike doublet over a shirt poufy enough that it may have been borrowed from Cardan. The only sign that she is the High Queen is the crown on her head—or perhaps the way the crowd quiets upon her arrival.

Cardan emerges from the carriage next, wearing all the finery she eschewed. He is in a black doublet as ink dark as his hair with lines of scarlet thorns along the sleeves and across the chest. As if the suggestion of prickliness isn’t enough, his boots come to stiletto points. The smirk on his face manages to convey royal grandeur and boredom all at once.

MOTHER AND FATHER ARE HERE!!!!!! Simple casual wife and her dramatic extra husband my beloved💕

I'm not focusing much on jurdan as this is Oak and Wren's story but I am crying at every mention and appearance of them because I'm a simple girl and I love jurdan too much

#also cheers to the fact that jude still takes Cardan's shirts 🥂 #jurdan #jude x cardan #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #high queen of elfhame #high king of elfhame #oak greenbriar #the prisoner's throne #the prisoners throne spoilers #the prisoners throne #tpt #the stolen heir #tsh #holly black #tfota #the folk of the air #bookblr

[somefandom]

#here i did it #the prisoners throne spoilers #the prisoners throne #tiernan x hyacinthe #tiernan #hyacinthe #tfota #the stolen heir #oak greenbriar #oak