Reviews

A Kingdom of Exiles by S.B. Nova

rebelkiss's review against another edition

4.0

A fun read

It had some similarities to the throne of glass books but unlike those characters, these didn’t annoy me and I enjoyed this book a great deal more.

riosblu's review

adventurous emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.0

abbyrei's review against another edition

2.0

**Warning: this text may contain spoilers** I'm only on Chapter 28, but I'm pretty confident that my rating will not change. So far, Serena is incredibly useless. It had such a good start, but after she meets Hunter, things went downhill from there. Her environment post-trial is completely set up to where she doesn't really have to do anything but writhe in her own emotions and what she wants to do but can't. The most action and spark of character you get from her is through her thoughts of violence/sex and indirectly through "Auntie". With that being said, she surprisingly has strong fae males wrapped around her finger. Could not roll my eyes any further after Frazer decides to bond with Serena as kin within a couple of days; could not flip a table faster than when it was mentioned Wilder was one of the strongest fae and also...celibate??? The romance makes me cringe; there's a lot of misunderstandings, drama, and possessiveness. There is more partnership and collaboration between Frazer and Serena that I wish they were the power couple that we need/want/deserve. Serena's journey in this book is one I wish to never live vicariously through again, and I hope the sequels are better. To be compared to Sarah J. Maas is inaccurate, so I don't recommend if that's your motivation to read this.

Will update this review once I finish.

***UPDATE***

Not a surprise, my opinion on the book still stands.

shortstack930's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

4.0

chargio12's review against another edition

5.0

Could not put this book down....easily going on my all-time favorites list. Anxiously awaiting book #2!

themanfromdelmonte's review against another edition

1.0

DNF @ 27% when the quality of the prose nosedived from merely clumsy to cringeworthy. Some of the dialogue is truly dreadful.

antitheticaldreamgirl13's review against another edition

4.0

I'd been so lonely for so long. Rejected, exiled, scorned. Others had helped fill that cold, barren place in my chest. But this-- this --set the whole damned place ablaze. Burning up the darkness until there was nothing but light. And life.

This book was captivating and reminded me highly of (Queen) Sarah J. Maas' books. There was a bad-ass female lead amongst brooding (sexy) fae males--sound familiar? I am excited for the next book(!!!) A Kingdom of Nomads --release date currently is a vague 2019.

esmeem's review against another edition

2.0

It took me over a month to read this book and to be honest I’m so glad it’s finally over... I saw people compare this to SJM, and I was expecting to enjoy it, but nope. First of all, this book is 600 pages and nothing really happens. The “big thing” is heavily anticipated and then just left to the next book. The main character is super dramatic and annoying, and she just doesn’t make sense. At one point, she compares the pain of being sort of rejected by her crush she barely knew to the death of both her parents?! Yet literally every “hot fae male” is just ready to die in order to protect her? You’re expected to get invested in a romance, but you’re also already told that she’s destined to end up with someone else later in the series? Like... what?! And also, even though she has sort of ended up in her current position by accident it seems like she will (of course) be the special snowflake chosen one. Every time she has an emotional reaction it’s very intense. She’s never scared: she’s terrified, she’s not happy, she’s elated. This book was uselessly long, annoying, and I feel like I wasted time and money reading this while someone could have told me like 3 plot points and it would sort of be like telling me the whole story. I realise this is a sort of bitter review but I was at least expecting the ending to make the rest of the book worth it, but sadly, it really wasn’t.

romitoak's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.5

kethyar's review against another edition

1.0

DNF around 50%. Boring, cliche, ridiculous.