Buzzfeed News published an in-depth writeup about the controversy, but some of the most prominent reasons for it were because people felt misled by the marketing and a lot of avid readers simply felt the book was poorly written and overhyped. Universal Pictures acquired the rights to The Cruel Prince, the first book in Holly Black's The Folk of the Air series, in 2017. The From Blood and Ash books have drawn many comparisons to A Court of Thorns and Roses in that both are adult fantasy series with a lot of "spicy content," which is just another term many readers use to indicate the level of sex scenes/smut content in any particular novel.
Author: Mads Lennon
Published at: 2025-07-15 21:30:00
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