Ayse answers “Why does everyone love Cardan and glorify...”

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Why does everyone love Cardan and glorify his (frankly abusive) relationship with Jude? There is definitely a difference between 'bad boys' and 'assholes', and Cardan falls into the latter for me. He's interesting, but why in the world would you have the hots for him?

Ayse These answers are sorta messed up, some of the things he did were inexcusable and the only reason I love and enjoy the books, and his character is bec…moreThese answers are sorta messed up, some of the things he did were inexcusable and the only reason I love and enjoy the books, and his character is because I had to pretend he didnt do them (I usually just pretend it was Valerian and Cardan was kinda absent or trying to stop him). Otherwise the story wouldn't be enjoyable for me anymore. I think its a definite flaw of writing that Cardan is a caricature bully during half of the cruel prince, then turns into an actual, real, flawed but quite charming character in the second half, and rest of the series. I think Holly Black is very talented, Wicked King is my favorite book ever, so its a shame how she wrote Cardans character so badly in the first half of the Cruel Prince book, but yea at the end of the day I just want to enjoy the book, so I use my imagination to delete the abusive behavior and make it that he was just mean, but didnt do all the really problematic things. (less)

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