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ARTIST: livish.art
WREN WITH WINGS!
In this house there is no erasure of Cardan’s curly hair, Cardan’s tail, or Oak’s horns and deer legs.
#it seems every single artist#chooses to forget cardan has curly hair.#Oak’s legs are DEER LEGS from#the knees down. he’s not half damn goat.#cardan#cardan greenbriar#high king cardan#oak#oak greenbriar#the folk of the air#the queen of nothing#the wicked king#the cruel prince#the stolen heir#holly black
I’ve seen some people complaining about how The Prisioner’s Throne doesn’t read like The Stolen Heir or The Folk of The Air counterparts but listen, it can’t and it’s not supposed to.
The Prisioner’s Throne is from Oak’s perspective and as we’ve found out, Oak isn’t a nice guy. He’s not the sweet adorable kid he was. Oak is manipulative, he can’t outright lie but with everything he does he might as well be. He is cold and calculating. If a Skittle is a soft candy with a hard shell, Oak is the opposite, only his demeanor and fake personality are soft. Inside he’s a hard person that is driven only by the thought that he has a debt to pay to his entire family.
People complain that even the sentence structure of the book is different, and yes it is as it should be. Oak doesn’t speak like the fae, doesn’t think like them. He was brought up between two worlds and his language and thoughts reflect it. His language is more coloquial, his sentences shorter and more direct.
Where as Wren’s book is all feeling, all emotions, Oak’s book is exactly the opposite because Wren is all instinct while Oak is all scheming. While Wren is the sweetest girl there is despite the torture she has endured, everyone sees her as a monster. Oak is the opposite, he is seen as sweet and aloof and it seems few can see the monster he really is.
With these things in mind of course the book is going to read different, of course the pacing is going to be different. It just seems to me like people came into this book expecting Oak’s mind to be all sentimental, perhaps Cardan 2.0 and didn’t like to be hit with the difference in persona.
Just thinking about how in The Prisioner’s Throne, Oriana tells young Oak that a consort is someone the King wants to take to bed for delight.
Then at the end of the book, Oak tells Wren that he would make an excellent consort.
Bish, he’s bragging about how good he’s in bed.
I mean, she knows since she got a taste in the garden. But the audacity. And it’s not like he can lie.
I can’t believe my beautiful baby Oak grew up to be a murderous slut with daddy issues.