I wish I could share my copy with everyone! It sucks that it’s not something you can pick up from the library.
But really you’re not missing anything if you can’t read it, nothing new happens. It’s just Taryn’s point of view of some of the events of TCP, which is interesting to read, but not crucial. (If you wanted me to share some details and quotes, feel free to PM me!)
“Let’s start with a love story. Or maybe it’s another horror story. It seems like the difference is mostly in where the ending comes.”
— The Lost Sisters, Holly Black
The Lost Sisters has a sneak peek of The Wicked King… I promised myself no spoilers, but I’m not entirely sure I can keep from reading it
Preorders opened today for the Barnes and Noble Exclusive Edition of The Wicked King! Preorder it here!! (It has an Exclusive Deleted Scene, not a short story like last time)
hey nonnie I got your other ask but I wanted to answer this anyway, haha. I didn’t find it rude at all, so don’t worry!
Jurdan is almost entirely based on headcanon. By the end of The Cruel Prince, we’ve seen them set up a bit (and had some amazing scenes filled to the brim with sexual tension), but there’s still a lot more that needs to happen between them before I’d be comfortable with them being canon. Luckily for myself and other Jurdan shippers, there are still two more books planned. Plenty of time for them to work through all their shit! But for now, we like to think about what they could be and headcanon cute scenes and angst, basically whatever you do with a ship that isn’t entirely canon yet.
The way I look at it, and how I said it to some of the ladies in the book club the other day, is that Jurdan right now is basically pre-ACOMAF Feysand. I wasn’t in the fandom until after ACOWAR so I don’t know for sure, but I’m willing to bet that a lot of people didn’t understand the shipping of Feysand at the end of ACOTAR. They probably felt a lot like you do about Jurdan, which is completely understandable and valid! I’m just waiting on my Jurdan ACOMAF with hopes that they will work through everything set up in TCP.
So basically: we don’t ship Jurdan for what they necessarily are right now, but for what they could be with some development!
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