Reading Journey

Title	The Wicked King
Author	Holly Black
Publisher	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Isbn	9780316310338
Percent	99.9%

Highlights

Date	Chapter	Percent	Color	Quote	Note
April 10, 2023 01:23	Chapter 30	88.5%	#FFE0EC	exile Jude Duarte to the mortal world. Until and unless she is pardoned by the crown, let her not step one foot in Faerie or forfeit her life.”	Oh I heard about this
April 10, 2023 01:20	Chapter 30	87.9%	#FFE0EC	He believed that he needed to convince Orlagh that he wasn’t feckless. Now I see he’s come up with a plan to do that. Just as he came up with a plan to throw off the yoke of my control.
April 10, 2023 01:11	Chapter 29	86.3%	#FFE0EC	“Cardan, son of Eldred, High King of Elfhame, I forsake any command over you. You are free of your vow of obedience, for now and for always.”
April 10, 2023 01:11	Chapter 29	86.3%	#FFE0EC	“I will lie down,” he says, letting me guide him toward his enormous bed. Once there, he does not let go of my hand. “If you lie with me.”	Why am I happy about this
April 10, 2023 01:10	Chapter 29	86.1%	#FFE0EC	“I, Jude Duarte, take Cardan, High King of Elfhame, to be my husband. Let us be wed until we don’t want to be and the crown has passed from our hands.” He kisses the scar of my palm.
April 10, 2023 01:09	Chapter 29	85.9%	#FFE0EC	“I, Cardan, son of Eldred, High King of Elfhame, take you, Jude Duarte, mortal ward of Madoc, to be my bride and my queen. Let us be wed until we wish for it to be otherwise and the crown has passed from our hands.”
April 10, 2023 01:08	Chapter 29	85.7%	#FFE0EC	“Yes,” I say, but my voice fails me. It comes out all breath. “Yes.”	Good I was gonna slap her if she said no
April 10, 2023 01:05	Chapter 29	85.3%	#FFE0EC	And were you queen, you wouldn’t need my obedience. You could issue all your own orders. And I would be free.”
April 10, 2023 01:05	Chapter 29	85.1%	#FFE0EC	“Marry me,” he says. “Become the Queen of Elfhame.”
April 10, 2023 01:04	Chapter 29	84.7%	#FFE0EC	Give me back my will. Give me back my freedom.”
April 10, 2023 00:56	Chapter 28	84.0%	#FFE0EC	And then you came in, just like she said you would. You said you had a plan….”	Taryn
April 10, 2023 00:54	Chapter 28	83.2%	#FFE0EC	“It was Madoc’s plan that we should strike during the coronation. It was his plan that once Dain was out of the way, Eldred would see clear to put the crown on my head. It was all his plan, but he stayed Grand General and I went to the Tower of Forgetting. And did he lift a finger to help me? He did not. He bent his head to my brother, whom he despises. And you’re just like him, willing to beg and grovel and lower yourself to anyone if it gets you power.”	Hmm maybe you should’ve listened to me
April 10, 2023 00:47	Chapter 28	83.1%	#FFE0EC	A sword is a weapon of war, a dagger is a weapon of murder.
April 10, 2023 00:33	Chapter 28	82.3%	#FFE0EC	All I can think about is that he poisoned Cardan, he tormented me, he pushed Orlagh to raid the land.
April 10, 2023 00:30	Chapter 28	81.4%	#FFE0EC	Because, for a moment, when I was at my worst, I felt powerful, and most of the time, I felt powerless, despite being a prince and the son of the High King of Faerie.”
April 10, 2023 00:28	Chapter 28	81.0%	#FFE0EC	“It’s funny, isn’t it, how I mocked you for your mortality when you’re certain to outlive me.”
April 10, 2023 00:27	Chapter 27	80.0%	#FFE0EC	He’s not drunk; he’s been poisoned.
April 10, 2023 00:27	Chapter 27	80.0%	#FFE0EC	Someone poisoned the High King, and he is going to laugh and dance himself to death in front of a Court that will veer between delight and disgust. They will think him ridiculous as his heart stops.	Madoc
April 10, 2023 00:23	Chapter 27	79.8%	#FFE0EC	“Yes, my sweet villain, my darling god. I will be as sober as a stone carving, just as soon as I can.” And with that, he kisses me on the mouth.	Maybe I’m just tired but I’m somewhat enjoying this
April 10, 2023 00:21	Chapter 27	79.7%	#FFE0EC	Get your puppet to abdicate the throne in favor of your brother or face the consequences. I won’t ask you again. It’s now or never.”	Is this his plan?
April 10, 2023 00:17	Chapter 27	79.1%	#FFE0EC	He’s obviously drunk. Very, very drunk.
April 09, 2023 13:54	Chapter 26	76.3%	#FFE0EC	Someone gives you a harsh look, murder. Someone disrespects you, murder. Someone ruins your laundry, murder.
April 08, 2023 13:37	Chapter 26	75.0%	#FFE0EC	But when you were gone—truly gone beneath the waves—I hated myself as I never have before.”
April 08, 2023 13:35	Chapter 26	74.4%	#FFE0EC	Because I am difficult to charm,” I sa
April 08, 2023 13:33	Chapter 26	73.4%	#FFE0EC	and he did try to kill me that one time.
April 08, 2023 12:18	Chapter 24	70.8%	#FFE0EC	If I killed him, we’d be at war.” “Then go to war.” With that, she sweeps from the room, leaving me sitting in Oriana’s parlor when the steaming tray of tea comes in.
April 08, 2023 12:14	Chapter 24	69.1%	#FFE0EC	“I will have her,” he says, sounding both possessive and contemptuous at once.
April 08, 2023 00:48	Chapter 23	67.6%	#FFE0EC	All I have to do is pretend.
April 08, 2023 00:45	Chapter 23	67.2%	#FFE0EC	“Would you go to him in his rooms and stab him again and again until his red blood ran out?”
April 08, 2023 00:43	Chapter 23	66.7%	#FFE0EC	Perhaps I cannot be glamoured, but that doesn’t mean I cannot be broken.
April 08, 2023 00:43	Chapter 23	66.5%	#FFE0EC	I have to allow them to slap me. I can’t cry.
April 08, 2023 00:41	Chapter 23	66.3%	#FFE0EC	Fed on cat milk and neglect.
April 08, 2023 00:41	Chapter 23	66.1%	#FFE0EC	Now I can’t do without the poison.
April 08, 2023 00:39	Chapter 22	65.3%	#FFE0EC	Cardan got a throne from this girl. Stop searching for what she has over him—and start looking for what he had over her.”
April 08, 2023 00:39	Chapter 22	65.2%	#FFE0EC	If they took Oak, they could foster him under the sea, they could marry him to Nicasia, they could have a Greenbriar line of their own, loyal to the Undersea. They would have options beyond Balekin for access to the throne, which cannot please him. A long game, but in Faerie, that’s a reasonable way to play.
April 08, 2023 00:38	Chapter 22	64.8%	#FFE0EC	“More than once? Does he love you?” I didn’t realize how much she’d hoped I was lying when I’d told her I kissed him. “More than once, but no. He doesn’t love me. Nothing like it.”
April 08, 2023 00:36	Chapter 22	64.2%	#FFE0EC	We are your friends,” Orlagh says, stroking my cheek with long nails. “You love us very much, but you must never tell anyone how much outside this room. You are loyal to us and would do absolutely anything for us. Isn’t that right, Jude	Interesting
April 08, 2023 00:35	Chapter 22	63.7%	#FFE0EC	I hope Cardan misses me.
April 08, 2023 00:31	Chapter 22	63.5%	#FFE0EC	Better it’s over fast, I tell myself. But it’s not fast enough.
April 08, 2023 00:30	Chapter 22	63.3%	#FFE0EC	Well, you’re ours now, mortal. Cardan will regret the day he put any trust in you.”
April 08, 2023 00:27	Chapter 21	62.3%	#FFE0EC	“I served Prince Dain,” the Ghost says. “Not you.”	Oh snap … who is Dain again?
April 07, 2023 23:57	Chapter 21	62.0%	#FFE0EC	Stole a prince of Faerie from right under my nose.
April 07, 2023 23:57	Chapter 21	61.6%	#FFE0EC	It was Locke with the riders, Locke and his friends on the night before he was to be married. A bachelor party of sorts. I guess he decided to pay me back for threatening him. That, or perhaps he knew he could never stay faithful and decided to go after me before I came back for him. I take one last look at them and realize I can do nothing now.
April 06, 2023 16:00	Chapter 20	54.8%	#FFE0EC	No, there is no mistake. They have come to kill me.	Of course
April 06, 2023 15:59	Chapter 20	54.6%	#FFE0EC	Three chances to catch the Undersea in an attempt to harm Oak. Three chances to make them regret trying.
April 05, 2023 16:13	Chapter 19	52.0%	#FFE0EC	“I did it for the same reason that you did. To get it out of my system.”	Raise your hand if you’re uncomfortable!
April 05, 2023 16:12	Chapter 19	51.8%	#FFE0EC	All it took was some kindness and a few kisses.”	Do elf STDs exist?
April 05, 2023 15:18	Chapter 18	51.2%	#FFE0EC	“I will take a single tear,”	Oh yeah cause that’s useful Nice job genius
April 05, 2023 15:17	Chapter 18	50.8%	#FFE0EC	“Tell me about your sister. Is this a love match?” “It must be,” I say, thinking that over. “Since there’s no practical value in it.”
April 05, 2023 15:17	Chapter 18	50.8%	#FFE0EC	“Perhaps a necklace of tears to weep so that she won’t have to? A pin of teeth to bite annoying husbands? No
April 05, 2023 11:13	Chapter 18	50.1%	#FFE0EC	She loves him, and she betrayed him with Locke and is terrified he will never love her again.
April 05, 2023 11:13	Chapter 18	50.1%	#FFE0EC	I am an idiot.
April 05, 2023 10:50	Chapter 17	47.3%	#FFE0EC	Politics are boring.”	I agree
April 05, 2023 00:08	Chapter 16	44.3%	#FFE0EC	Once you’re wed, if you want to take other lovers, she better be with you when you do it and she better be into it. If it’s not fun for everyone, it’s not happening.”
April 05, 2023 00:06	Chapter 16	43.7%	#FFE0EC	Humiliating the High King is a bad idea. Humiliating me is a terrible idea. Running around on my sister is just dumb. Maybe you thought I was too busy to take my revenge? Well, Locke, I want you to understand that for you, I will make time.”	At least Jude is a somewhat tolerable protagonist
April 05, 2023 00:04	Chapter 15	42.9%	#FFE0EC	that I like him better than I’ve ever liked anyone and that of all the things he’s ever done to me, making me like him so much is by far the worst.	Why is toxicity attractive now? Why is this the romance people like? Why is the current standard for romance the most toxic crap ever? I get enemies to lovers is sometimes good but this … this is weird
April 05, 2023 00:02	Chapter 15	42.6%	#FFE0EC	“That you hate me,” he says, his voice hoarse. “Tell me that you hate me.” “I hate you,” I say, the words coming out like a caress. I say it again, over and over. A litany. An enchantment. A ward against what I really feel. “I hate you. I hate you. I hate you.” He kisses me harder.	internal screams of confusion
April 05, 2023 00:02	Chapter 15	42.4%	#FFE0EC	Should I touch her like this?”	CREEP CREEP CREEP
April 04, 2023 23:57	Chapter 15	41.4%	#FFE0EC	And put your seneschal on a leash.	Ah yes I love feminism in the form of intentional animal imagery of women
April 04, 2023 22:01	Chapter 15	41.2%	#FFE0EC	“He likes you this way, I think,” Cardan says. “Flush-cheeked and furious.” “I don’t care what he likes,” I spit out. “You seem to not care quite a lot.”	This banter sucks
April 04, 2023 22:00	Chapter 15	41.1%	#FFE0EC	“You can fight anything. Winning, though, that’s something else again. Isn’t that right, Jude?”	Stop trying to be feminist
April 04, 2023 13:07	Chapter 14	39.0%	#FFE0EC	weaned on cat milk and cruelty,	Ah yes relatable characters I, too, was weaned on cat milk and cruelty
April 04, 2023 13:07	Chapter 14	38.8%	#FFE0EC	“He survived on cat milk?”	…why is this a thing?
April 04, 2023 12:26	Chapter 13	37.5%	#FFE0EC	That’s Cardan’s mother.”
April 04, 2023 12:24	Chapter 13	36.9%	#FFE0EC	With Taryn’s wedding so close	We still don’t know who she’s marrying
April 04, 2023 10:57	Chapter 13	36.5%	#FFE0EC	We would be legends,” she tells him. “Legends need not concern themselves with something as small as happiness.”
April 04, 2023 00:30	Chapter 12	34.8%	#FFE0EC	Madoc looks shaken. “I didn’t know.” “You didn’t want to know,” I return.
April 04, 2023 00:27	Chapter 12	34.7%	#FFE0EC	Because the Jude I knew would cut out that boy’s heart for what he did to you tonight.”
April 04, 2023 00:06	Chapter 11	32.0%	#FFE0EC	That sounds like work.”
April 04, 2023 00:04	Chapter 11	31.3%	#FFE0EC	I hate you,” I whisper before he can speak. He tilts my face to his. “Say it again,” he says as the imps comb my hair and place the ugly, stinking crown on my head. His voice is low. The words are for me alone.	People think this is hot?
April 03, 2023 23:58	Chapter 11	30.9%	#FFE0EC	I have too often been troubled by dreams of Jude,” he says, voice carrying. “Her face features prominently in my most frequent nightmare.”
April 03, 2023 15:18	Chapter 11	30.3%	#FFE0EC	“Why, our Queen of Mirth is none other than Jude Duarte.”
April 03, 2023 13:07	Chapter 11	29.4%	#FFE0EC	“You ought not to be here tonight, little ant,” he says, letting go of me. “Go back to the palace.”
April 03, 2023 11:47	Chapter 9	26.6%	#FFE0EC	. I know you want to say you told me so, but I don’t care.”	Unless this is lockes plan
April 03, 2023 11:47	Chapter 9	26.6%	#FFE0EC	. “When I’m with him, I feel like the hero of a story. Of my story. It’s when he’s not there that things don’t feel right
April 03, 2023 11:47	Chapter 9	26.4%	#FFE0EC	“I don’t want Locke to be Master of Revels.” “You and me both.”
April 03, 2023 11:42	Chapter 8	24.1%	#FFE0EC	“I wish I could think of a place he’d be safer.”
April 03, 2023 10:56	Chapter 7	21.7%	#FFE0EC	“I’m still your father.” “You’re my father’s murderer,” I blurt out. “I can be both,” Madoc says, smiling, showing those teeth.
April 03, 2023 01:46	Chapter 5	18.5%	#FFE0EC	“Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”
April 03, 2023 01:46	Chapter 5	18.5%	#FFE0EC	. “If you’re the sickness, I suppose you can’t also be the cure.”
March 31, 2023 13:07	Chapter 4	14.5%	#FFE0EC	An apt metaphor for other things.	Faerie drugs
March 31, 2023 13:05	Chapter 4	13.7%	#FFE0EC	I stole the crown of Faerie, I want to tell her. The High King, Cardan, our old enemy, is mine to command
March 30, 2023 18:49	Chapter 3	10.9%	#FFE0EC	There are whispers Orlagh intends to break her treaty with the land and use the information Balekin is giving her to ruin Cardan.”
March 30, 2023 18:47	Chapter 3	10.2%	#FFE0EC	“Watching my back is the perfect opportunity to stick a knife in it,” I remind him.
March 30, 2023 11:00	Chapter 1	6.2%	#FFE0EC	’ had you accepted all I would bestow upon you, you would have found yourself under a geas, allowing you to marry only a weaver of the cloth in my hands. Myself—or my daughter.”
March 30, 2023 10:59	Chapter 1	6.0%	#FFE0EC	Though you are the High King, Mother Marrow will have your word.”
March 30, 2023 10:59	Chapter 1	6.0%	#FFE0EC	It amuses her to keep me out of trouble
March 30, 2023 10:57	Chapter 1	5.5%	#FFE0EC	rather than binding myself with my words.”	Don’t trust
March 29, 2023 16:06	Chapter 1	5.3%	#FFE0EC	Severin	Good name
March 29, 2023 16:01	Prologue	3.4%	#FFE0EC	What is sparring but a game of strategy, played at speed
March 29, 2023 16:01	Prologue	3.2%	#FFE0EC	Power is the ability to get what you want. Power is the ability to be the one making the decisions. And how do we get power?”

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March 29, 2023 15:09	Tagged	🧾	York County Libraries
March 29, 2023 15:09	Borrowed		York County Libraries