If you're looking for more books like The Cruel Prince, here are some recommendations!
-The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert: This dark fantasy novel follows seventeen-year-old Alice, who discovers that her mother's fairy tale past may be connected to a string of disappearances in the present.
-The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill: In this Newbery Medal winning book, an orphaned girl is raised by a witch and must come to terms with her own magical powers.
-A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Mass: When Feyre kills a faerie, she's dragged to their world where she must fight for her life against the cruel High Lord.
-Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo: Orphan Alina Starkov discovers that she has the power to summon light, which could help save her war-torn country. But doing so puts her in the middle of a dangerous game.