Mariana’s Reviews > The Cruel Prince > Status Update

I hate how the author needs to remind us of how cruel Cardan is, so she has Jude be stupid as hell and accuse everyone who tries to hurt her of being pawns to Cardan, when they fucking tell her they are not. They can't lie.
This just makes the story feel so flat. No character is truly important because for Jude, the only other person with free will in this fucking book is Cardan. Always Cardan, Cardan, Cardan. Girl.

Jude's badass main character syndrome attacks again; she makes extremely dumb choices that do not make sense in the context of the book, and then at least she pays for them
I might actually like Cardan, but only because I dislike her so much
Also, I'm tired of this play-pretend where we have to hear Jude thinking Cardan did something wrong when it's very obvious he did not, because this is a clichê ass romance book

I wish the author would stop describing every single item of clothing like a Wattpad teenager

We get a (sexual) humiliation scene of the main character, where her love interest partakes and enjoys seeing her suffer, and then immediately, in the most rushed and sloppy way possible, we get a chapter where he's spanked, lol
The author is trying her best not to let us form too bad an opinion of him, so she immediately reveals his "sad back story"
I am disappointed; this cannot be the book everyone raves about.

Everything is painfully clichê, very uninspiring relationship-wise...

I really hate the relationship the twins have. It feels silly; I don't understand how Taryn, in this situation, would never feel like her sister thinks less of her...Jude treats Taryn as if she's completely incompetent, which she honestly seems to be, still.
Jude seems like an awful caricature of a "badass girl boss"... like, seriously, beating a guy that was trying to flirt with you, and it feels good? How original