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A Goodreads user asked this question about How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5):
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?
Sian I find Jude's behaviour equal (and in some cases, worse) as Cardan's, as she happily murders people and feels nothing. This is a love story of two vil…moreI find Jude's behaviour equal (and in some cases, worse) as Cardan's, as she happily murders people and feels nothing. This is a love story of two villains- a monster girl and wicked boy, respectively.

Holly Black has been very clever about making the narrator's flaws in the series become almost invisible to the reader- even when Jude herself says them to us: “If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”(less)
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