Reviews

Królestwo Złowrogich by Kerri Maniscalco

firebreathingbqueen's review against another edition

adventurous

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.0

It was nice that question were finally answered however

why the loss of power.. especially for a man and then the „I give you have of mine“ why not gaining her own power back, and wasn’t she more powerful before and then having half of his. I just really dislike loss of newly found power that the protagonist wanted to have and grew into over the course of the book

youbethya's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.75

This was a mess. So many random plot points, magic rules, and flashback-type scenes that weren't set up in the previous books. Magic that worked sometimes and not others with no explanation. Characters that had completely different personalities than in previous books. The spice was very out-of-place and in situations that didn't make any sense for the characters. For example, the "we have only one day to do this super important thing or we will be doomed for eternity! But actually let's bang for a while instead cause we definitely have time for that!" scene was confoundingly stupid. The main battle and problem were super easily overcome in silly ways that had flimsy build-up. It was hard to care about any of it. Messy.

chanzlyn's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

🎧: 5/5 the VA does a fabulous job with the voices for all of the primary characters, they had their own personalities that you could really feel through the little nuances she added to each of their lines. The sound effects that they added were just the right amount at the right times!
🌶️: 2.5/5 the spice do be spicing but nothing to wild other than some voyeurism.

While I'm disappointed with a few things in this book I still LOVED the overall series and would reread this! It was not a terrible read by any means! I had a lot of fun at parts, I thought the plot was overall interesting, especially some of the little twists I wasn't expecting. But I just wanted to point out a few plot points that I kept questioning as I kept reading through the book.

This is definitely another book that suffered from the spice - looking through my reading history, you can see I very much enjoy spice! But that's for books I specifically am looking for that to be heavily featured in. This was not one of those books.

I know the spice picked up greatly in the second book but I had hoped it would have toned down a bit for the plot here. Alas, it did not - the spice honestly felt forced at times and unnecessary at others - It's wild how EVERY House of Sin enhanced the pleasure/lustful vibes.

"Oh we're in Greed's section, well I'm greedy for your penis." "Oh we're messing with Envy, well I'm gonna make you jealous by riding up on this man in front of you." It was just kind of weird.

Don't get me wrong! The spice was well written! Just...I wanted the plot!!

Speaking of the plot, the whole arc about Greed's General was so weird. There was no build up to it, there was no reason for Emilia to have been invested as she was with it, and it really became so important and pivotal to the story out of nowhere. I also just had a hard time caring about that plot line - I don't know if it was that there wasn't enough build up in the previous two books or what but it just wasn't a great plot line.

Another point I don't like is a bit of a spoiler.

I hate "new found power and now it's gone" storylines. It's so wild that in one book, the final book of a trilogy, Emilia gets her power and then she looses is barely after having it. It just seems to cheap especially given how much they talked about her and Vittoria's age, how ancient and powerful they were, how everyone around them even the Princes feared them! And yet she had to give up her power? It just doesn't make any sense.

The relationship between Emilia and Vittoria also felt sloppy. I feel like things between them resolved too quickly. I kind of wish there had been a better connection established between them in the second book to lead up to the ultimate twist/conclusion of their relationship in the final book.

Wrath was fine, I feel like he lacked something in the final book where the first two books really built him up for me but he was ultimately fine.

All-in-all I did enjoy this and would reread it! Just had to explain why my rating is what it is haha.

Wrath and Emilia are cute together 💖

liaashryver's review against another edition

5.0

I’m surprised I don’t have a book hangover after this series

lskywalker918's review against another edition

3.0

I would say 3.5 stars rounded down to 3.

The third book in the series was not as good as the second. Kingdom of the Cursed made me want to grab the next book right away after I sped through it. This one, not so much. Yes, we discovered all the obstacles in front of Emilia and Wrath. We found out who the true villains were. However, the overpowered Emilia and Wrath plowed through them as if they were nothing. It made everything too easy. As a result, we were at the 75% mark with the main storyline resolved. So what do we do for the rest of the book? Not to worry because Emilia would break immersion by listing all the side storylines that still needed resolution. This could be handled more seamlessly.

Also, the Vesta storyline was unnecessary. Was it added in just to bolster the page count?

The 0.5 boost was for the smut (which was good).

Spice scale (as defined by Mysterious Galaxy):

emilyjudkins's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

jessiepostshere's review against another edition

2.0

DNFed at 68%

Nobody is more shocked than I am. I preordered two separate covers of this book. I stalked my local Walmart daily for multiple days prior to release to see if they happened to put it out early. I took the entire day off work on release day because I could not wait to finish this series.

Unfortunately, this was a big miss for me. I don’t think I’ve ever thought “I wish there wasn’t any spice in this”.

I bumped this series down a row on my bookshelf before I was even halfway through the book.

It took me over a month to read 68% of a book I took the day off to read, only to decide that I actually had no desire to finish at all.

This book pushed Daddy Wrath out of a top tier book boyfriend for me.

alex_anne's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

akdiaz's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

letter2self's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5