How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

Holly Black

Book 3.5 of The Folk of the Air

A collection of interlinked short stories illustrated by Rovina Cai, told entirely from the perspective of Cardan Greenbriar, tracing his life from a neglected faerie child to the High King of Elfhame. The vignettes weave in and out of the main Folk of the Air trilogy's timeline, revisiting familiar moments through his eyes while also adding new scenes before and after the main series. A recurring fairy tale told to him by a troll serves as a thread connecting his growth and change across the stories.