E-Book Review of The Lost Sisters by Holly Black

The Lost Sisters by Holly Black
Expected publication: October 2nd 2018
 by NOVL
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The Lost Sisters

Summary

Sometimes the difference between a love story and a horror story is where the ending comes . . . 

While Jude fought for power in the Court of Elfhame against the cruel Prince Cardan, her sister Taryn began to fall in love with the trickster, Locke. 

Half-apology and half-explanation, it turns out that Taryn has some secrets of her own to reveal.

The Lost Sisters is a companion e-novella to the New York Times bestselling novel The Cruel Prince by master writer Holly Black.

Review

*I want to first thank TheNovl for kindly sending me an e-book copy of this novella for review.*

"Let's start with a love story. Or maybe it's another horror story. It seems like the difference is mostly in where the ending comes."

If you have read the Cruel Prince then you might just hate this character just like I did. Not until I read this, now I can support Taryn to some level. Now I can truly understand everything that went out with her. I can say you go girl! Fight for what you want. If you haven't read The Cruel Prince, Stop what your doing go buy it if you don't have it. Read it and then come back to read this review. Because it just might spoil you. Taryn is Jude's twin sister, and might just be the evil sister. As portrayed in The Cruel Prince. In  this novella, Taryn shares with us a beautiful letter to Jude, about how she fell in love with a faerie. How she tasted this forbidden fruit and couldn't stop after that. To be quiet frank I loved every part of it. I loved how it felt like fairy tale, told by a human (which she is) falling in love with someone that should be have been forbidden (which she does). As soon as you start the story you are fed lines to make you fall right into it. Taryn was tricked by a fox but what the fox doesn't know is that she has grabbed him by the tail.

"The wicked are slain, with swords no less. Vengeance is had. Boldness is rewarded."

During the entirety of The Cruel Prince we see Taryn as a weak by stander, who is taking the hit for her sister Jude. Jude is rebellious and hates how her and her sister are being treated for being human. She tends to stand up for both of them which always leads to more trouble. But what Jude doesn't know is that Taryn has her own way of fighting for what she wants. Taryn tells her side of the story this time, and we see from her eyes what Jude never seemed to see. Taryn too suffered as much as Jude from the hands of the magical folk. Now she's finally doing something about, just not in the way Jude would do it. When Taryn gets a letter from Locke everything from then on changed for her and her relationship with Jude. 

"Fairy tales of full of girls who wait, who endure, who suffer."

I loved every part of Taryn's story and it makes me want to read The Wicked King even more. I want to see how much farther Taryn would go just to get what she wants.  By the way this felt nothing like a novella. I felt like I was dragged back into the world of A Folk of the Air. Like I never left. I am always amazed how beautiful Holly Black's writing. 

"I heard a singer begin a  tune i hadn't heard before, a song of heartbreak. Of a girl who walked the earth by starlight. Who's aspect was mortal but with beauty divine. her cruelty had pierced his heart."

5★★★★★