![]() ![]() The writing was okay, but like Elian, nothing too special. It never happened … but, like, there were some pretty obvious signals that he was giving off? Madrid and Torik were the only characters that I actually wasn’t bored to tears with.Īgain, nothing too special here. Tbh, I spent the whole book thinking that Kye was gay and waiting for him to make a move on Elian. There was nothing particularly special (and again, he was cliche) and practically no character development. As her character developed, I came to like her a little more … but it really wasn’t that much.Įlian … eh. I felt that at the beginning she was tiresome and cliche (all I’m a murder and I cannot love over and over and over again *gag*). Lira, I was not a fan of pretty much the whole book. ![]() To Kill a Kingdom‘s whole plot/premise was super neat and creative in terms of a Little Mermaid retelling. (There’s also deadly sirens and I am so here for that.) I mean pirates! Backstabbing! Mermaids that are actually mermaids not the kindergaten stuff. Lira was also pretty chill! (Well, not chill. And he was actually funny and adorable at points. He’s our restless, swashbuckling prince who bleeds gold. But! There was some stuff that I liked.Įlian was actually kinda cute sometimes. It was just so boring and honestly? Kinda full of tropes that I’m tired of. It wasn’t that I, like, hated everything. Honestly, guys? There wasn’t much that I loved about this book. We have to scheming murders who deep down are nice folks and they falllll in loooove. (I feel like that’s a song? Is it?) But! I’m coming at ya with Alexandra Christo’s Little Mermaid retelling To Kill a Kingdom. To get directly to the point, peeps love retellings. Opinions my own.Good day, folks! I hope that you’re all doing well! ❤ Thanks to Hot Key Books and Readers First for my copy. I look forward to hearing more from Christo. ![]() It is a strong first novel which makes a good interpretation of an existing fairy tale. This is already proving popular, and I enjoyed it for the world alone. The crew are loyal to Elian, and slow to trust Lira. There is Madrid, the only female pirate, and Kye the fiercely-protective friend who hates it when the prince writes him off as a body-guard. This is one of those novels where even the minor characters feel totally real. Elian would rather pick his crew than be forced to live the life he was born into. There is also an emphasis on finding your own people. It reminded me of The Sin Eater’s Daughter in this respect. Although this was fantasy, it made some very serious comments about emotionally manipulative parents. I enjoyed the plot, particularly Lira’s transformation from a girl who would do anything her mother wanted into a young woman who thinks people should give their respect freely. Sounds good? If you like fairy tales you will enjoy this for the world alone. There is a city made of gold, a ship where a teenage prince plays at being a captain and an ice-kingdom which perpetrates its own myths to ensure a loyal following. My favourite part was the world-building. This worked well and allowed us to see the same kingdoms through different eyes. Instead there is murder, revenge and hate-to-love romance. It makes many references to Disney’s The Little Mermaid, but you won’t find friendly fish and singing lobsters here. To Kill A Kingdom imagines sirens and mermaids in all their bloody glory. Could she be the key to helping him destroy siren-kind for good? Can he trust her? Can she trust him? How many deals will Elian have to make before he can face the Sea Queen? Review: When he saves Lira from drowning, he knows there is more to her than meets the eye. ![]() He roams the seas in his ship, the Saad, killing sirens to rid the world of their threat. Prince Elian would rather be a captain than a king. The only way to win back the trust of her mother, the Sea Queen, is to kill the Prince Elian and deliver his heart ahead of the Winter Solstice. When she saves a prince from being killed by a mermaid, Lira is transformed into a human in punishment. Every year on her birthday, she kills another prince and stashes their heart in her chest. Lira has a heart for every year she has been alive. If I do this, we would both get what we want. I could continue with my legacy, and the Queen would no longer have to worry about our kind being hunted. My mother would deny me the heart of a prince, but the heart of a prince would be enough to erase any bad feelings between us. ![]()
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