This book has 1) a pretty cover 2) hate-to-love romance and 3) evil sirens who seduce boys and kill them with their voices.
I mean?? That’s what you call an epic book. Am I right or am I right? But to Kill a Kingdom was actually very good! I am in love with the alliterative title and the whole premise and the book really delivered because i was quite entertained.
So, What’s this book about?
We have two main characters. We have Lira, a siren, daughter of the Sea Queen. Now Lira is an interesting character and she has really great development over the novel. At the beginning of the novel, she is controlled by her abusive, mean and horrible mother the Sea Queen. Now Lira disobeys her mother and as a punishment, she is turned into a human!! She can only turn BACK into a siren if she steals Prince Elian’s heart.
This is where Prince Elian of Midas comes in. He rescues Lira from the bottom of the ocean and takes her on board the ship. He doesn't know that Lira is in fact THE PRINCE’S BANE. When Lira was a siren, every birthday she would steal a prince’s heart. Elian is a siren hunter so he basically hates the Prince’s Bane! BUT ELIAN DOESN'T KNOW WHO LIRA TRULY IS?!
But Lira falls in love with Elian and doesn't want to kill him and take his heart but then she’ll never be able to turn back into the Siren. And Elian falls in love with Lira but she is a siren so like?? DILEMMAS HERE WHAT A JUICY BOOK.
How is the story told?
The story is told alternating between Elian’s perspective and Lira’s perspective.
The writing was REALLY QUOTABLE and was easy to read and was really dark and chilling and it told the story well!
What about the characters?
I didn’t FALL in love completely with the characters but they were likeable and written well! I felt like we got to know them even though they were a bit flaky.
Elian is a sweet cinnamon roll, I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. He’s just trying to do the RIGHT thing all the time and please everyone but obviously he can’t. And he wants to appear all brave and such but he’s really just soft and polite on the inside. SOFT. PIRATES. Ahhhhhhh.
Elian also has amazing friends. I mean, TORIK WAS HILARIOUS I'M HOWLING!! I’m grumpy Torik got such little spotlight because he was great. And then there’s Kye and he’s BASICALLY KELL and Elian is Rhy and their relationship is like Kell’s and Rhy’s from ADSOM AND I LOVE THEM SO MUCH THEY'RE LIKE BROTHERS JKSjdhSJ MY FEELS ARE SPLATTERED. AND OMIGOSH MADRID. She's like one of the only female pirates on the ship “The Saad” (which is such a ridiculous name TO BE PERFECTLY HONEST)At one point shes like to Lira “glad to have you here we have way too many boys here” IF THIS ISN’T A MOOD.
Lira was a very cut-throat and kick-ass and I LIKED THAT. She kind of reminded me of Lila Bard from A Darker Shade of Magic and as you can tell, I LOVE GIRL PIRATES SERIOUSLY GIMME ALL OF THEM PLEASE AND THANKS. But anyways, Lira was fierce and bold and packed a punch and she grew over the story, figuring out what other people wanted and what she wanted. Only thing that bugged me was how she thought feminine things were a sign of “weakness”.
Villains? Hmmm. The Sea Queen was a typical boring villain IM SORRY so I don’t have much to say about her? She’s controlling and selfish and needs to go die. And Rycroft was...interesting. Very cunning though I think the plot twist concerning him was a bit...EH.
R O M A N C E
Ohhh it was a good romance BECAUSE hate-to-love WHICH IS ONE OF MY FAVE TROPES EVER!!! And it was done pretty good!! BUT I feel like it went to “hmmm I like him” to “OMIGOSH I WOULD DIE FOR YOU LET ME BOW -DOWN IN FRONT OF YOU OMIGOSH I AM OBSESSED WITH YOU” Which…Um. It was NOT insta-love!!It was definitely slow burn and sometimes I just wanted to pull my hair out in FRUSTRATION because "KISS ALREADY!!" I’m sorry but you could just see they liked each other?? I feel like the romance did take over a little TOWARDS THE END and it wasn’t developed amazingly but I liked them?! Conflicted.
What about the World?
To Kill A Kingdom is set in a really interesting world. There are deadly sirens who seduce boys and kill them and steal their hearts which is such a dark concept SO IT’S OBVIOUSLY BEAUTIFUL. The world building is okay, I couldn’t care less about the names of places though. There’s lots of sea creatures like Mermaids and Sirens and the Sea Queen and I absolutely love it.
How did you feel overall?
OKAY BUT EVIL SIRENS AND HATE TO LOVE ROMANCE AND BLOOD AND MURDER AND GORE AND THE OCEAN AND PIRATES AND HEARTS AND BETRAYAL?!?!
Of course, I loved it. 1000% my type of book!!! So a really good read I AM GLAD I ENJOYED IT. 8/10 would recommend. I mean, it took me a while to get into and i was WAITING for stuff to happen a lot and sometimes it was slow-moving and I didn’t feel involved and was a bit disconnected but I quite liked it and it was interesting.
I mean?? That’s what you call an epic book. Am I right or am I right? But to Kill a Kingdom was actually very good! I am in love with the alliterative title and the whole premise and the book really delivered because i was quite entertained.
So, What’s this book about?
We have two main characters. We have Lira, a siren, daughter of the Sea Queen. Now Lira is an interesting character and she has really great development over the novel. At the beginning of the novel, she is controlled by her abusive, mean and horrible mother the Sea Queen. Now Lira disobeys her mother and as a punishment, she is turned into a human!! She can only turn BACK into a siren if she steals Prince Elian’s heart.
This is where Prince Elian of Midas comes in. He rescues Lira from the bottom of the ocean and takes her on board the ship. He doesn't know that Lira is in fact THE PRINCE’S BANE. When Lira was a siren, every birthday she would steal a prince’s heart. Elian is a siren hunter so he basically hates the Prince’s Bane! BUT ELIAN DOESN'T KNOW WHO LIRA TRULY IS?!
But Lira falls in love with Elian and doesn't want to kill him and take his heart but then she’ll never be able to turn back into the Siren. And Elian falls in love with Lira but she is a siren so like?? DILEMMAS HERE WHAT A JUICY BOOK.
How is the story told?
The story is told alternating between Elian’s perspective and Lira’s perspective.
The writing was REALLY QUOTABLE and was easy to read and was really dark and chilling and it told the story well!
What about the characters?
I didn’t FALL in love completely with the characters but they were likeable and written well! I felt like we got to know them even though they were a bit flaky.
Elian is a sweet cinnamon roll, I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. He’s just trying to do the RIGHT thing all the time and please everyone but obviously he can’t. And he wants to appear all brave and such but he’s really just soft and polite on the inside. SOFT. PIRATES. Ahhhhhhh.
Elian also has amazing friends. I mean, TORIK WAS HILARIOUS I'M HOWLING!! I’m grumpy Torik got such little spotlight because he was great. And then there’s Kye and he’s BASICALLY KELL and Elian is Rhy and their relationship is like Kell’s and Rhy’s from ADSOM AND I LOVE THEM SO MUCH THEY'RE LIKE BROTHERS JKSjdhSJ MY FEELS ARE SPLATTERED. AND OMIGOSH MADRID. She's like one of the only female pirates on the ship “The Saad” (which is such a ridiculous name TO BE PERFECTLY HONEST)At one point shes like to Lira “glad to have you here we have way too many boys here” IF THIS ISN’T A MOOD.
Lira was a very cut-throat and kick-ass and I LIKED THAT. She kind of reminded me of Lila Bard from A Darker Shade of Magic and as you can tell, I LOVE GIRL PIRATES SERIOUSLY GIMME ALL OF THEM PLEASE AND THANKS. But anyways, Lira was fierce and bold and packed a punch and she grew over the story, figuring out what other people wanted and what she wanted. Only thing that bugged me was how she thought feminine things were a sign of “weakness”.
Villains? Hmmm. The Sea Queen was a typical boring villain IM SORRY so I don’t have much to say about her? She’s controlling and selfish and needs to go die. And Rycroft was...interesting. Very cunning though I think the plot twist concerning him was a bit...EH.
R O M A N C E
Ohhh it was a good romance BECAUSE hate-to-love WHICH IS ONE OF MY FAVE TROPES EVER!!! And it was done pretty good!! BUT I feel like it went to “hmmm I like him” to “OMIGOSH I WOULD DIE FOR YOU LET ME BOW -DOWN IN FRONT OF YOU OMIGOSH I AM OBSESSED WITH YOU” Which…Um. It was NOT insta-love!!It was definitely slow burn and sometimes I just wanted to pull my hair out in FRUSTRATION because "KISS ALREADY!!" I’m sorry but you could just see they liked each other?? I feel like the romance did take over a little TOWARDS THE END and it wasn’t developed amazingly but I liked them?! Conflicted.
What about the World?
To Kill A Kingdom is set in a really interesting world. There are deadly sirens who seduce boys and kill them and steal their hearts which is such a dark concept SO IT’S OBVIOUSLY BEAUTIFUL. The world building is okay, I couldn’t care less about the names of places though. There’s lots of sea creatures like Mermaids and Sirens and the Sea Queen and I absolutely love it.
How did you feel overall?
OKAY BUT EVIL SIRENS AND HATE TO LOVE ROMANCE AND BLOOD AND MURDER AND GORE AND THE OCEAN AND PIRATES AND HEARTS AND BETRAYAL?!?!
Of course, I loved it. 1000% my type of book!!! So a really good read I AM GLAD I ENJOYED IT. 8/10 would recommend. I mean, it took me a while to get into and i was WAITING for stuff to happen a lot and sometimes it was slow-moving and I didn’t feel involved and was a bit disconnected but I quite liked it and it was interesting.