Holly Black’s THE CRUEL PRINCE beautifully blends fantasy and realism
Jude Duarte is a mortal living in Elfhame, a world where all of the inhabitants are beautiful, immortal faeries, and this one is important: not human. Did I mention they were beautiful? In The Cruel Prince by Holly Black, Jude is taken away to Elfhame by Madoc, her sister’s father, after witnessing him murder her parents when she was seven.