#CARDAN GREENBRIAR

[dvartesgfs]

girls don't want flowers they just want the cruel prince books to be re written in cardan's pov

[jkriordanverse]

literally Helnik & Jurdan:

[xcruelprincessx]

Locke being obsessed with wanting to be the main character in his stories and ending up being murdered off screen would never not be funny to me 🤣. I just know how much he would hate that his murder wasn't even important enough to make it to the books!

[viivdle]

cardan sleeping soundly because his wife did come back and she saved him and he knows she will keep him safe and he'll keep her safe and they love each other through the mortal lands and to the grounds of the undersea

[myhyperfixationisbooks]

Madoc: I raised four perfectly sane children

Jude: You have four other children we don’t know about?!

[chaiichait]

It's funny how everyone's life in elfhame kinda sucks

[sarahreesbrennan]

Also also: is there any way, or will there be any way, for readers without whichever special edition (?) it’s in to read “Letters to My Lady from the Abyss…”? Reading your Reddit AMA in a desire to know more about this wonderful book and the idea of a tiny bit extra has me 👀

Thank you for wishing to know more! FairyLoot special edition is the special edition with bonus content. I will explain more. FairyLoot is a wonderful UK-based group who make fancy special editions for their monthly boxes. People sign up for FairyLoot and get books picked for them. You can get Young Adult, Adult Fantasy, or Romantasy, or a combination thereof - Long Live Evil was the August Adult Fantasy pick - and you can buy other special editions from their website. So the FairyLoot folks are Tastemakers as well as makers of beautiful objects. (ISN’T IT BEAUTIFUL? Pictures stolen. Interior art by Bon Orthwick who got Marius’s hair PERFECT.)

But you can’t buy the monthly boxes, unless they have extras! If they do have extra Evils to buy, I will put up a link.

There are many boxes now, but FairyLoot and Illumicrate are the two biggest and have made a lot more people embrace reading and see books as a special treat. Waterstones and Barnes & Noble have started making special editions of books because of them. A while back I knew none of this, because I was staying away from publishing, working with IP books (very different branch of publishing) and training for a different job. But then I did a catch-up call with my frien. She talked about FairyLoot. I did not understand her and thought maybe the deadlines had got on top of her and she believed fairies had looted her manuscript.

Holly: So these FairyLoot editions have (She holds up a copy of… I think… the Coldest Girl In Coldtown?) been amazing for UK sales.

Sarah: Sorry but why are these books so beautiful?

Holly: Because I just explained to you why, girl. Sarah: Can I have this.

Holly: No they’re limited!

So then I knew FairyLoot was a Giant Deal and they were offered Long Live Evil but I was sure they wouldn’t pick me.

My lovely editor Jenni: great news, the FairyLoot people picked you! Sarah: are you. are you quite sure.

Jenni: … yes? Could you write them some bonus content? Sarah: YES! A thing I can do for them? Oh yes! Here’s three things I can do. Tell them they can pick which one they would like!

I wrote a letter for them as well, to be bound in with the book. But the bonus content is an extra adventure or point of view you didn’t get to see in the main book. FairyLoot picks what they think their readers might like most.

I really like epistolary novels, where the action is told though letters, such as Jane Austen’s Lady Susan and Amal El Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s This Is How You Lose The Time War. So I thought it would be fun to do a story through letters!

Obviously I then had a moment of dark self-doubt.

Sarah: O my god why did they pick this nobody’s going to like him what shall I do! Holly: When I was writing Cardan’s letters you said ‘epistolary is so fun, you said, this is a piece of cake, you said, get in loser we’re writing romantically sinister letters, you said…’

Sarah: my Vision is a romantic The Screwtape Letters. Holly: … oh dear. Okay. Get in loser we’re writing romantically sinister letters.

And so with a lil help from my kind frien, I wrote Letters to My Lady From the Abyss, which is an epistolary short story with a POV we don’t get in book 1 and an adventure we don’t get to see. But I did write it, as you see, for FairyLoot so it belongs to them and it’s up to them. I think I might get it back in a year and then I’ll put it up on my website. I will let you know!

I am so sorry for this very long explanation, I just wanted to let you know what was up.

Should you read it, I hope you enjoy. And I will write more bonus content, I promise!

Also speaking of FairyLoot, they’re doing a readalong of Long Live Evil right now if anyone might like to chat about the book. Here’s a link to people talking about chapters 1-7 - they will do a different chunk every day! I like that people are choosing favourite characters, so far the Cobra, Key and Emer have the votes!

[ira-in-ink]

[🌹]: many people have convinced themselves that jude would be the dom in the relationship. she is, and would be in their normal day to day life, but in the bedroom? i don't think so. it is said multiple times that jude isn't as experienced as cardan when it comes to s e x. and it's also like she's kind of shy about the whole thing, and gets embarrassed when she feels like cardan knows that she doesn't know what she's doing. whereas cardan, he's way more experienced and would know how to get a reaction out of jude and stuff like that. so, i think it's safe to say that he would be the dom. and i guess jude would let him. just to save her the trouble of getting nervous or embarrassed. either that, or they take turns. and i have evidence of this, when they were making out in that secret room behind the throne in the wicked king, cardan was leading. but, in the queen of nothing, during their first time, jude was leading. so, it could be that they take turns as well.

[ezziefae]

Just finished reading Holly Black's part of "Faeries Never Lie" and it was so gooooood. The events are after TQON. It had a heart wrenching part, and damnnn holly gave us ANGSTTT! The story really made me adore Vivi and Heather even more. And it was so cool to see what Heather's life is like outside of faerie. We definitely see another side of Vivi that we don't see in the books. I'm obsessed with them and I need more. I honestly wouldn't mind if Holly wrote an entire book starring them. And it was cool to see Jude and Cardan mentioned! I'm gonna finish reading the rest of the stories from the rest of the authors! I definitely recommend getting the book!

I bought the physical copy at B&N at the day of release!

[slarxsa]

Tfota PowerPoint night?

Cardan: My Childhood traumas! (chronological order)

Jude: some very complicated fae politics (aimed) (at Cardan and Oak)

Madoc: The Art Of Death (tw: emotional)

Wren: Ranking my outfits

Oak: Jurdan baby name suggestions! (pls have a child pls pls) ( I don't want to be king)

Vivi & Heather: smth normal (couple goals)

Taryn: top 10 times I was a good twin sister

Lilliver: B O O M (explodes)

Van: TUTORIAL: ring stealing rizz (actually works)

The Ghost: My Life As A Tree

[xcruelprincessx]

I really hope we get to see Cardan and Jude having kinds in the next book of the series. Now that Oak is no longer a factor that stops them. I want to see Cardan with his own child so much 😭 I just know he would be the best dad ever

[viivdle]

cardan greenbriar. no further explanation.

[balladofareader]

Imagine hating me and I'm just here obsessing over fictional characters not giving a damn about real life

[booklover1115]

Jude is smart, but she couldn’t guess that Cardan was in love with her. AND IT WAS THAT OBVIOUS

Jude: why did he write my name over and over on a piece of paper?? He hates me so much…

Cardan: JUDE JUDE JUDE JUDE JUDE I LOVE YOU JUDE I CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT YOU

Jude: I cannot read him.

[clairevberry]

obsessed with jude and cardan post queen of nothing. like neither really knows how to love in a healthy way but they’re both trying so hard. neither is totally convinced the other isn’t going to stab them in the back, isn’t going to leave them. in another world they would have had time to grow that trust but everything happened so quickly and now they’re married. they’re also rulers but they’re also just teenagers. they sit on thrones but on weekends they eat junk food at vivi’s apartment and take oak to the arcade and do things any mortal teenagers would do. maybe they feel safest (at least cardan does) in that apartment but they could never leave faerie. at the end of the day they love their power too much. it’s just nice to pretend for a while. over time it gets better, the trust and domesticity. they grow into their roles, but at the start they’re just deeply hurt teenagers trying to make it work.

[lovelyy-and-lost]

I had this English assignment where I had to pick a book character and describe how they conform or follow social norms :))) When I tell you I wrote a paragraph on Jude Duarte in Elfhame. The yap I yapped. Best writing job I've ever done, I swear. AND I TOLD MY FRIENDS BUT THEY ROLLED THEIR EYES