Suzannah Rowntree's Reviews > The Prisoner’s Throne

While this felt a little messier and less polished than the original trilogy, it was also my precise brand of madly entertaining court intrigue. All the setup of the first book pays off, and more in a supremely catatstrophic 10-car pileup. Oak, who has been crafting himself personas to please and entice and subvert everyone around him all his life, finds himself in a rapidly shrinking world where he has to juggle multiple roles and plots at once, remain alive, save all the different people he loves through sneakery and deception while convincing them all that he can be trusted, and all this despite the fact that they're all planning to kill each other. While getting poisoned and spiralling into paranoia and going a little batty with true love. Is Oak going to learn the power of speaking truth in love, or will he inevitably be crushed beneath his own multitude of deceptions?

I've loved everything I've read from Holly Black but this book in particular? An Absolute Blast and a Hoot From Beginning To End.