The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black (Overview, Book Review + Summary) – *SPOILERS* Folk of the Air

I'm so excited to be back and talking about the #1 New York Times bestselling YA fantasy book, The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black. This is the sequel to last year's The Stolen Heir, and unlike the first book which followed Wren, The Prisoner's Throne centers on Oak. This video contains SPOILERS.

Are you a fan of Holly Black's Folk of the Air books, or her world of Faerie? We're getting an Undersea duology or trilogy, right?!

CHAPTERS:
0:00 Welcome & The Prisoner's Throne overview (SPOILERS)
0:47 Prisoner's Throne Prologue / Oak's backstory & his secrets
2:03 Wren's imprisonment of Oak & the torture chamber
4:15 The complicated dynamic between Oak & Wren
4:58 Oak & Wren's engagement & the journey back to Elfhame
6:40 The not-so happy family reunion between Jude and Cardan and Oak
6:57 Wren still sees herself as an unlovable monster
7:20 Oak's parallel journey as a gancanagh (love talker, creature of seduction)
7:53 Themes in The Prisoner's Throne
8:26 The secret surrounding the death of Oak's biological mother, Liriope
9:19 Excerpt reading 1 ("family of deceivers")
9:34 Excerpt reading 2 (Oak doubts the authenticity of everyone's love for him)
9:55 Excerpt reading 3 (Oak tries to put himself in Wren's shoes)
10:19 Excerpt reading 4 / my favorite Prisoner's Throne quote ("monsters together")
11:03 How Holly Black writes romance
11:31 Bogdana's leverage over Wren & Wren's death
12:43 Wren's rebirth
13:09 Other things I loved about The Prisoner's Throne
14:40 What was Valerian's dying curse on Jude in The Cruel Prince??
15:16 What I rated The Prisoner's Throne
16:09 Wrap up / Thank you for watching!!


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