And throughout the volume are stories of Cardan’s encounters with a troll named Aslog, who tells him the story of a wicked boy with a heart of stone – a story with a moral that changes each time it’s told. While events of the previous books are alluded to, Cardan’s stories do not retread those events. From this jumping off point, the stories begin with Cardan’s childhood as an unloved younger son, through his relationship with Nicasia, and coming full circle to the end of the frame narrative. An illustrated addition to the New York Times bestselling Folk of Air trilogy, that started with The Cruel Prince, from award-winning author Holly Black. Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Pages: 173 Release Date: November 24, 2020. The collection begins with a frame story set in the mortal world, with Jude and Cardan visiting Jude’s siblings to deal with an unidentified problem. The cover for How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories, illustrated by Rovina Cai. This slim volume is a collection of short stories from the third-person limited perspective of the Wicked King himself – Cardan – but Black does not simply give us another angle on the story she has already told. Further, it does not take the path that some franchises have of flipping the perspective on an already-familiar story. Which makes sense as this slim volume doesn’t fit neatly into the series as a continuation of the story. How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories is the latest installment in Holly Black’s Folk of the Air series, and Goodreads lists it as #3.5 in the series.
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