As seneschal to High King Cardan, Jude must fight to keep control of the Faerie throne while her younger brother, Oak, enjoys the childhood she never knew.
The Cruel Prince is about wanting power. The Wicked King is about the burden of keeping it, and that's the better idea in the pair. The Book Smugglers called it intricate and twisty, with power as the central theme, and that's a fair summary.
The cost is patience. The court talk takes its time before the betrayals start paying dividends, and then the book ends on cliffhangers that lead straight into The Queen of Nothing. Jude also gets outmaneuvered more than some readers like, and whether that's a flaw or the realistic strain of the job is a live argument. The romance is the other one. Some find the leads electric, others can't forget how book one began. Pick this up if court intrigue is your thing, not school-style cruelty.
The twists are sharp, the power games knotty, and the second half is where the book bites. Readers split on whether it tops The Cruel Prince, and on whether Jude's slide from canny operator to frequently outmaneuvered heroine is realistic or frustrating. It won the 2019 Goodreads Choice Award for Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction, a reader-voted prize.
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Caitlin has a youthful, bubbly quality to her voice. High energy and full of character.
Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Caitlin moved to New York City to pursue her theatrical training at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She has a BFA in Drama and studied musical theatre at CAP21.
Caitlin has been working in voice over since 2009. She got started in VO while living in Tokyo, Japan. Caitlin is currently in her 6th season touring Japan with Disney's World of English and World Family Club as a performer.
Caitlin has had the distinguished honor to premier new work from Alan Menken and Sir Tim Rice through their charitable efforts for the Shine On! Foundation in Japan.
As an audiobook narrator, Caitlin has won Earphones from Audiofile Magazine and a 2018 Audie Award nomination for her work on New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson. Caitlin has worked with Hachette Audio, Audible Studios, MacMillan Audio, Brilliance Audio, Harper Audio, Penguin Random House Audio, Dreamscape Audio, and Tantor Audio. She has accent proficiency in Standard American, American (Southern, NY), British RP, British (London, Bristol), Irish, French, and Russian. Caitlin is conversational in Japanese and has studied Spanish and French.
Caitlin can be heard on ads for McDonald's, Lion, Seiyu Department Stores (owned by WalMart), Bennesse, NHK and Asahi Productions Heroes: Legends of the Battle Discs as "Mascot." Caitlin was the principle voice of "Sho-kun" in NHK's Kiso Eigo 1 in 2012. She has worked extensively in animation for children and children's education working in 2011 on the National English program for grades 4 & 5 for the Japanese Government and the Minister of Education. Caitlin currently voices for TIME Magazine, TIME for Kids, and smashd.co, and Forbes.com.
Caitlin works from her home studio in Tokyo, Japan.
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