THE WICKED KING by Holly Black #2 The Folk of the Air 3 Stars Verdict: An okay middle book. Me and 'middle books' of trilogies have beef. It's been a long time since I've really enjoyed one, and I'm starting to think it's me. Why do they always spend the first two thirds of the book in story limbo? Why do they refuse to end in a satisfying manner and instead throw you over a cliff and expect you to hang on for the next hundred thousand words to be published? Why does nothing good ever happen to the protagonist? Wicked King is marginally better than the other middle books I've read recently. Still, it reads like A Guide to a Miserable Existence , by Jude Duarte, who wanders around for months on end before stuff finally starts to happen. Just when you're really interested, the book ends within the slice of a guillotine as it cuts off the last section, leaving you wondering what was that noise all about. It's not a bad book. The main ch...