--- product_id: 198070135 title: "The Queen of Nothing" price: "150 Lei" currency: RON in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ro/products/198070135-the-queen-of-nothing store_origin: RO region: Romania --- # The Queen of Nothing **Price:** 150 Lei **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Queen of Nothing - **How much does it cost?** 150 Lei with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ro](https://www.desertcart.ro/products/198070135-the-queen-of-nothing) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A powerful curse forces the exiled Queen of Faerie to choose between ambition and humanity in this highly anticipated and jaw-dropping finale to The Folk of the Air trilogy from a #1 New York Times bestselling author. He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power. Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan's betrayal. She bides her time determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Opportunity arrives in the form of her twin sister, Taryn, whose life is in peril. Jude must risk venturing back into the treacherous Faerie Court, and confront her lingering feelings for Cardan, if she wishes to save her sister. But Elfhame is not as she left it. War is brewing. As Jude slips deep within enemy lines she becomes ensnared in the conflict's bloody politics. And, when a dormant yet powerful curse is unleashed, panic spreads throughout the land, forcing her to choose between her ambition and her humanity . . . Review: Drop everything on your TBR and read this trilogy! - "Plunge a heated sword into oil and any small flaw will turn into a crack. But quenched in blood as you were, none of you broke. You were only hardened." Jude has always claimed throughout the series—through words and actions—that she belongs in Faerie despite being mortal. I think nobody understood just how true that is until The Queen of Nothing. The story opens with Jude still reeling from the pain and betrayal in The Wicked King. She's downtrodden, doesn't know what to do with herself, and wiles away her time taking side jobs from the local fae. It broke my heart with just how unhappy she was. Then Taryn comes to ask for a favor—opening the opportunity to temporarily switch places with her sister. Once Jude gets to Faerie, her inner match lights into a bonfire. "You’ve got to stop acting as though Court politics is some kind of extreme sport and stop chasing the adrenaline high." I can’t believe it’s over. This series, this world, these characters...I do not have the words to express how much happiness they've given me. "Even though I am the queen in exile, I am still the queen. And that means Madoc isn’t just trying to take Cardan’s throne. He’s trying to take mine." Black explores the depth and complexity of relationships and I think that's what truly hooked me throughout the series, but especially in this one. The relationship with Jude and Madoc has always been a complex one: How do you love a father who became your father by killing your own? A father that loves you so very much, but loves power more? Their dynamic, and the war between them, was really what carried the novel—it broke me—and it was something I didn't even know I wanted. "I know I will never do this again. I will never have him behave like this with me again. But for one final night, he’s the father I remember best, the one in whose shadow I have—for better or worse—become what I am." AND "Good-bye, then, daughter," Madoc says. "You would have made a good redcap." Tell me your heart is not breaking! Tell me that is not so tragically beautiful that you don't know whether to cuddle them because they so obviously love each other or beat them over the head because they're obviously breaking each other's hearts! THE FEELS! "To you, I offer honey wine and the hospitality of my table. But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen’s hospitality instead. The hospitality of knives." Jude may be the queen of my heart. She never backs down and never gives up. I want to be her when I grow up. "By you, I am forever undone." Cardan's growth has been my world. From petulant child, to uncertain spy, to gloriously dark and confident king...we now we get to see him be the king of his people’s dreams, but also the king of his own. I don't think there will ever be another character I love so much as him. Black has made me feel altogether way too much from delighting in some of his more cruel moments to swooning in his heartfelt ones. "We have lived in our armor for so long, you and I. And now I am not sure if either of us knows how to remove it." "Is this another riddle?" I ask. "And if I answer it, will you go back to kissing me?" "If that’s what you want." AND "Mortals are fragile," I say. "Not you," he says in a way that sounds a little like a lament. "You never break." Which is ridiculous, as hurt as I am. I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness. Still, I like hearing it. I like everything he’s saying all too well. Tell me you are not swooning! Tell me you would not want your dark king to tell you such sweet nothings! But don't worry, he's not all sugar. He still has his spice: "Oh, I don’t know," I say. "Maybe he’d like to hear me scream." "I would," Cardan says, standing. "And perhaps one day I will." Vivi: holy wow that standoff with her father was a long time coming. And when she told him to bring his whole damn army? Oh snap, girl. Oooooooh, snap! I squealed. Loudly. Grima Mog: introduced when Jude fights her in the beginning of the novel, she becomes a favorite of mine halfway through. I love how Jude accidentally picks up such powerful and amazing strays! And when she's promoted to war general? Ahhhh, yisss. "Tell me what I must slay, what I must steal, tell me the riddle I must solve or the hag I must trick. Only tell me the way, and I will do it, no matter the danger, no matter the hardship, no matter the cost." Nicasia: okay, wow. Really didn't see this redemption arc coming but was it a good one. Oak: So help me Black, you better give me a good spin off with him. SO HELP ME. This has been the series of my heart. The true magic with books is the way the written word can make you feel and Black is a master at her craft. Words cannot express just how much. I am not ready to say goodbye, but it was the perfect ending. "To family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming great schemes. I can toast to that." Everyone needs to drop everything on their TBR and read this trilogy. Review: A conclusion that leaves me with mixed feelings but still content somehow. - PART I: REVIEW 3.75 Stars "Greetings, Your Majesty, you betraying toad." - Jude I don't know how to even ATTEMPT to write a spoiler-free review for this book but I tried. I don't want to say too much but I also want to tell you every little thing I'm thinking right now after finishing TQoN. Did I like it? Hell yeah, I did. Overall it was great. But 3.75 stars mean that there are still some things I'm not completely satisfied with. Just going to throw a few things out there. ➤ Anticlimactic. And therefore a little disappointing. My expectations were probably too high. In comparison to TCP and TWK, you won't feel such a wide range of emotions anymore. Issues from the previous two books aren't real issues anymore. There were things that got solved too easily and quickly in my opinion and others that took too long. Many answers were also RIGHT THERE for us to grab and when they got resolved all I could think was "Wait, that's it? That easy?" ➤ Enjoyable. The pacing was a thousand times better than in book two. I was immediately sucked into the story and I liked Jude quite a lot in this last installment. Cardan didn't have as many scenes as I would have liked but oddly enough I didn't mind. THAT MUCH. The few that he had were awesome, and I gobbled up everything I could whenever he made an appearance. Cardan puts up a hand. "No, no, enough. It's all too tedious to explain. I declare this meeting at an end." His fingers make a flicking gesture towards the door. "Leave us. I tire of the lot of you." I have a long way to go before I can manage that level of shameless arrogance. ➤ You know how I felt after reading this book? Completely SPENT. So much has happened; you THINK you KNOW in which direction the events are taking you and then you realize you had absolutely no idea. My disappointment with certain things? It was nowhere to be found anymore after finishing. This long, long journey Holly Black took us on just made me feel entirely drained. I can't decide if everything that happened was genius or just plain messy. I know my review sounds very negative but keep in mind that I DID enjoy it. I think I'm even experiencing a book hangover. After finishing, I felt lost somehow. All I've done the first half an hour or so was to mindlessly scroll through social media while contemplating life at the same time haha. It was weird, lol but I was certain, I LIKED THE BOOK. PART II: BOOK TALK, BEST TO BE READ AFTER FINISHING THE BOOK (SPOILER!) * * * — Locke's death. ANTICLIMACTIC. I remember writing a friend, with whom I did a buddy read, that this could be a trick. That Locke's just playing one of his games again and wants to push Jude's story for his own entertainment. Sounds plausible, right? Well, turns out TARYN got the privilege of killing that annoying pest AND WE READERS WEREN'T EVEN THERE TO WITNESS IT AND BATHE IN ITS GLORY. Totally unsatisfying and LAME. It feels a little like we were robbed. — Taryn, another pesky thing/issue that got resolved too quickly. She stirred up so much trouble in TCP and TWK and now what? Everything's fine again? She did nothing to repentant for the things she did in the past. She's pregnant, gets Locke's estate and lives happily ever after? Possibly even with the Ghost? W T H? She was punished for absolutely NOTHING. How can that be? There are soo many bloodthirsty readers out there who wanted retribution. Some suffering, torture. Death? Guess we don't get anything. To be fair, I'm exaggerating right now. I'm not feeling as strongly about this anymore as I did in the beginning, because over the course of this book all my negative feelings towards Jude's enemies just vanished. Locke's and Taryn's bad deeds just faded into the background. All in all, this specific problem left me with very mixed feelings. Though I definitely didn't like it while reading, it feels like in the end, all these things didn't matter anymore. — Madoc. What the heck was that? I was so not impressed with his capitulation and his punishment. — The solutions were all written right there! 1. The cliffhanger from TWK. I felt a little dumb after getting the explanation because it was so easy 🤦‍♀‍ but then knowing THAT (how easy the answers could be) made the solution to Cardan's problem very obvious. Spill blood=kill Cardan, but that didn't mean that my heart didn't stop there for a few seconds when Jude really did take his head off lol. — Why did it take so long for Jude and Cardan to be reunited? I'm so sad. They spend so much time apart and when they finally DID meet again, it wasn't enough. I wanted moore! If Holly Black gave them a little bit more time together, where the focus was only on them, I would have been satisfied with my next point. — I'm not very happy with the turn of events near the end. It was unexpected, you know? I anticipated war or a fight between Madoc and Cardan/Jude. And what did I get? Cardan became a serpent and the whole plot suddenly centered around saving Cardan, and Jude's love for him. The word "desperate" is not a 100% fit but Jude was all about "I can't live without Cardan" and "the only way to have him by my side is to bind him to me, the rest (i.e. Madoc and his army) doesn't matter". After not getting any couple-time for what feels like ages, this sudden turn was... weird. It felt like Holly Black tried to squeeze everything (i.e. romance+enemy issue) into the last few chapters to then, conveniently, tie everything up in a nice little package. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,381 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3 in Teen & Young Adult Fairy Tales & Folklore #3 in Teen & Young Adult Fiction on Bullying (Books) #6 in Teen & Young Adult Sword & Sorcery Fantasy | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 60,187 Reviews | ## Images ![The Queen of Nothing - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91lnRGu3qrL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Drop everything on your TBR and read this trilogy! *by M***) on November 20, 2019* "Plunge a heated sword into oil and any small flaw will turn into a crack. But quenched in blood as you were, none of you broke. You were only hardened." Jude has always claimed throughout the series—through words and actions—that she belongs in Faerie despite being mortal. I think nobody understood just how true that is until The Queen of Nothing. The story opens with Jude still reeling from the pain and betrayal in The Wicked King. She's downtrodden, doesn't know what to do with herself, and wiles away her time taking side jobs from the local fae. It broke my heart with just how unhappy she was. Then Taryn comes to ask for a favor—opening the opportunity to temporarily switch places with her sister. Once Jude gets to Faerie, her inner match lights into a bonfire. "You’ve got to stop acting as though Court politics is some kind of extreme sport and stop chasing the adrenaline high." I can’t believe it’s over. This series, this world, these characters...I do not have the words to express how much happiness they've given me. "Even though I am the queen in exile, I am still the queen. And that means Madoc isn’t just trying to take Cardan’s throne. He’s trying to take mine." Black explores the depth and complexity of relationships and I think that's what truly hooked me throughout the series, but especially in this one. The relationship with Jude and Madoc has always been a complex one: How do you love a father who became your father by killing your own? A father that loves you so very much, but loves power more? Their dynamic, and the war between them, was really what carried the novel—it broke me—and it was something I didn't even know I wanted. "I know I will never do this again. I will never have him behave like this with me again. But for one final night, he’s the father I remember best, the one in whose shadow I have—for better or worse—become what I am." AND "Good-bye, then, daughter," Madoc says. "You would have made a good redcap." Tell me your heart is not breaking! Tell me that is not so tragically beautiful that you don't know whether to cuddle them because they so obviously love each other or beat them over the head because they're obviously breaking each other's hearts! THE FEELS! "To you, I offer honey wine and the hospitality of my table. But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen’s hospitality instead. The hospitality of knives." Jude may be the queen of my heart. She never backs down and never gives up. I want to be her when I grow up. "By you, I am forever undone." Cardan's growth has been my world. From petulant child, to uncertain spy, to gloriously dark and confident king...we now we get to see him be the king of his people’s dreams, but also the king of his own. I don't think there will ever be another character I love so much as him. Black has made me feel altogether way too much from delighting in some of his more cruel moments to swooning in his heartfelt ones. "We have lived in our armor for so long, you and I. And now I am not sure if either of us knows how to remove it." "Is this another riddle?" I ask. "And if I answer it, will you go back to kissing me?" "If that’s what you want." AND "Mortals are fragile," I say. "Not you," he says in a way that sounds a little like a lament. "You never break." Which is ridiculous, as hurt as I am. I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness. Still, I like hearing it. I like everything he’s saying all too well. Tell me you are not swooning! Tell me you would not want your dark king to tell you such sweet nothings! But don't worry, he's not all sugar. He still has his spice: "Oh, I don’t know," I say. "Maybe he’d like to hear me scream." "I would," Cardan says, standing. "And perhaps one day I will." Vivi: holy wow that standoff with her father was a long time coming. And when she told him to bring his whole damn army? Oh snap, girl. Oooooooh, snap! I squealed. Loudly. Grima Mog: introduced when Jude fights her in the beginning of the novel, she becomes a favorite of mine halfway through. I love how Jude accidentally picks up such powerful and amazing strays! And when she's promoted to war general? Ahhhh, yisss. "Tell me what I must slay, what I must steal, tell me the riddle I must solve or the hag I must trick. Only tell me the way, and I will do it, no matter the danger, no matter the hardship, no matter the cost." Nicasia: okay, wow. Really didn't see this redemption arc coming but was it a good one. Oak: So help me Black, you better give me a good spin off with him. SO HELP ME. This has been the series of my heart. The true magic with books is the way the written word can make you feel and Black is a master at her craft. Words cannot express just how much. I am not ready to say goodbye, but it was the perfect ending. "To family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming great schemes. I can toast to that." Everyone needs to drop everything on their TBR and read this trilogy. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A conclusion that leaves me with mixed feelings but still content somehow. *by N***L on November 19, 2019* PART I: REVIEW 3.75 Stars "Greetings, Your Majesty, you betraying toad." - Jude I don't know how to even ATTEMPT to write a spoiler-free review for this book but I tried. I don't want to say too much but I also want to tell you every little thing I'm thinking right now after finishing TQoN. Did I like it? Hell yeah, I did. Overall it was great. But 3.75 stars mean that there are still some things I'm not completely satisfied with. Just going to throw a few things out there. ➤ Anticlimactic. And therefore a little disappointing. My expectations were probably too high. In comparison to TCP and TWK, you won't feel such a wide range of emotions anymore. Issues from the previous two books aren't real issues anymore. There were things that got solved too easily and quickly in my opinion and others that took too long. Many answers were also RIGHT THERE for us to grab and when they got resolved all I could think was "Wait, that's it? That easy?" ➤ Enjoyable. The pacing was a thousand times better than in book two. I was immediately sucked into the story and I liked Jude quite a lot in this last installment. Cardan didn't have as many scenes as I would have liked but oddly enough I didn't mind. THAT MUCH. The few that he had were awesome, and I gobbled up everything I could whenever he made an appearance. Cardan puts up a hand. "No, no, enough. It's all too tedious to explain. I declare this meeting at an end." His fingers make a flicking gesture towards the door. "Leave us. I tire of the lot of you." I have a long way to go before I can manage that level of shameless arrogance. ➤ You know how I felt after reading this book? Completely SPENT. So much has happened; you THINK you KNOW in which direction the events are taking you and then you realize you had absolutely no idea. My disappointment with certain things? It was nowhere to be found anymore after finishing. This long, long journey Holly Black took us on just made me feel entirely drained. I can't decide if everything that happened was genius or just plain messy. I know my review sounds very negative but keep in mind that I DID enjoy it. I think I'm even experiencing a book hangover. After finishing, I felt lost somehow. All I've done the first half an hour or so was to mindlessly scroll through social media while contemplating life at the same time haha. It was weird, lol but I was certain, I LIKED THE BOOK. PART II: BOOK TALK, BEST TO BE READ AFTER FINISHING THE BOOK (SPOILER!) * * * — Locke's death. ANTICLIMACTIC. I remember writing a friend, with whom I did a buddy read, that this could be a trick. That Locke's just playing one of his games again and wants to push Jude's story for his own entertainment. Sounds plausible, right? Well, turns out TARYN got the privilege of killing that annoying pest AND WE READERS WEREN'T EVEN THERE TO WITNESS IT AND BATHE IN ITS GLORY. Totally unsatisfying and LAME. It feels a little like we were robbed. — Taryn, another pesky thing/issue that got resolved too quickly. She stirred up so much trouble in TCP and TWK and now what? Everything's fine again? She did nothing to repentant for the things she did in the past. She's pregnant, gets Locke's estate and lives happily ever after? Possibly even with the Ghost? W T H? She was punished for absolutely NOTHING. How can that be? There are soo many bloodthirsty readers out there who wanted retribution. Some suffering, torture. Death? Guess we don't get anything. To be fair, I'm exaggerating right now. I'm not feeling as strongly about this anymore as I did in the beginning, because over the course of this book all my negative feelings towards Jude's enemies just vanished. Locke's and Taryn's bad deeds just faded into the background. All in all, this specific problem left me with very mixed feelings. Though I definitely didn't like it while reading, it feels like in the end, all these things didn't matter anymore. — Madoc. What the heck was that? I was so not impressed with his capitulation and his punishment. — The solutions were all written right there! 1. The cliffhanger from TWK. I felt a little dumb after getting the explanation because it was so easy 🤦‍♀‍ but then knowing THAT (how easy the answers could be) made the solution to Cardan's problem very obvious. Spill blood=kill Cardan, but that didn't mean that my heart didn't stop there for a few seconds when Jude really did take his head off lol. — Why did it take so long for Jude and Cardan to be reunited? I'm so sad. They spend so much time apart and when they finally DID meet again, it wasn't enough. I wanted moore! If Holly Black gave them a little bit more time together, where the focus was only on them, I would have been satisfied with my next point. — I'm not very happy with the turn of events near the end. It was unexpected, you know? I anticipated war or a fight between Madoc and Cardan/Jude. And what did I get? Cardan became a serpent and the whole plot suddenly centered around saving Cardan, and Jude's love for him. The word "desperate" is not a 100% fit but Jude was all about "I can't live without Cardan" and "the only way to have him by my side is to bind him to me, the rest (i.e. Madoc and his army) doesn't matter". After not getting any couple-time for what feels like ages, this sudden turn was... weird. It felt like Holly Black tried to squeeze everything (i.e. romance+enemy issue) into the last few chapters to then, conveniently, tie everything up in a nice little package. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fun and satisfying final installment with twists, romance, and female empowerment *by B***G on September 14, 2021* Ah, this book is everything! The perfect conclusion to this spellbinding adventure (though thankfully, there are several novellas I can also dive into afterward). And can we take a moment to appreciate that cover—swoooon! All the covers in this series are gorgeous but this one is my personal favorite; each element ties into the most important aspects of the plot and the color scheme is icily delicious. I’m so, so glad I picked up this series and whole-heartedly recommend it to lovers of dark fairytales and fantasy. We pick up with Jude, the Faerie Queen in exile, living in the mortal world with Vivi and Oak. Jude is miserable, doing odd jobs for other faeries in the neighborhood, until Taryn shows up asking Jude to take her place in the Elfhame court’s questioning of Locke’s murder. Why does she need Jude to pretend to be her? Oh, because Jude can honestly answer that she didn’t murder Locke, while Taryn cannot. Y’all! I have never liked Taryn more! In fact, I haven’t liked Taryn until this exact moment. Finally, she acknowledges Locke’s horrific treatment of her and his altogether unsuitability as anyone’s husband. Is murder an extreme reaction? Sure, but we know by now this is a dark fantasy and I fully support it. Sorry, not sorry. And so our exiled heroine returns to Faerieland and the final adventure takes off. The plot of the third installment is riveting and unpredictable with all of the fast-paced twists and turns we’ve come to expect. While the entire series is a true-to-form fairytale, this book more-so than its predecessors incorporates the most quintessential fairytale elements: prophetic riddles, ancient artifacts, curses (so. many. curses), people turned into animals (though no true love’s kiss will turn them back), and of course, balls. You name it, this story has it. And none of it feels out of place—it all adds to the story and develops the most luscious, magical atmosphere. The character development is once again the beating heart of the novel. After The Cruel Prince, I didn’t think it was possible for me to root as hard as I am for Jude and Cardan, yet all I want for them is a happy ending. Especially poor Cardan, who’s never really experienced love before. Any other Batman / Titans fans in the house? Cardan is really serving me Jason Todd vibes and I just want him to be okay. Of course, Cardan isn’t the only important man in Jude’s life. Madoc continues to wreak havoc—I mean, this guy just won’t quit. And to a degree, I get it. He’s a centuries-old war General and his teenage daughter is showing him up at every turn. His pride is certainly on the line. But also, he’s a selfish, raging jerk. What was the point of him spending years raising Jude and Taryn in Faerie, educating them, acting like their dad, if he was going to drop all parental feelings the moment they used what he taught them? I can’t say much more without getting into spoilers, but I’m very satisfied with the way things are left with Madoc at the end. Getting to see more of Heather and Vivi’s relationship is also fantastic. While they felt like side characters in the last book, their relationship is more front and center in this one and I finally understand why they want to be together. I also just love the bond between Jude and Heather as two mortals making their way through the perils of Faerie. On a similar note, it’s gratifying to see the three sisters finally come together and support one another. It demonstrates just how much each character has grown throughout the series. Ugh, there’s just too much I love about this book to name it all, but as far as introducing new characters in the twelfth hour goes, Grima Mog is a badass boss! Goes to show Madoc’s not the only baddie in town. Honestly, all the women stand out in this novel—even Oriana and Nicasia have their moments. This couldn’t be a more rewarding conclusion. I’m looking forward to reading How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories next because as much as I love Jude, I’m dying for a little more Cardan backstory. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, 3) - The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, 2) - The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, 1) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ro/products/198070135-the-queen-of-nothing](https://www.desertcart.ro/products/198070135-the-queen-of-nothing) --- *Product available on Desertcart Romania* *Store origin: RO* *Last updated: 2026-07-07*