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To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo

19 reviews

lucasxx's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny inspiring tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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seasickkkkk's review against another edition

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

4.5

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valyn_grebe's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-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

3.5

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lish_e's review

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adventurous funny lighthearted slow-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

3.75

Honestly, I bought it because I read the first few sentences: 
 
 “I have a heart for every year I’ve been alive.
 There are seventeen hidden in the sand of my bedroom. Every so often, I claw through the shingle, just to check they’re still there.
 Buried deep and bloody.”
 
It really had the enemies to lovers trope. They wanted to kill each other, didn’t trust each other and had witty banter. But in my personal opinion there could have been more scenes to portray them falling for each other.
The characters had cute/funny interactions. I also liked the multiple kingdoms with different skills and customs. Also the differences between sirens and mermaids were interesting and the concept with them stealing hearts was intriguing. 
The last fighting scene was a bit anticlimactic and the story wrapped up really fast.
And even though this isn’t something that has to do with the plot, but the cover is gorgeous. 
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thatlivthatreads's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This is one of my favourite books. I've seen lots of negative reviews on this book, so I didn't have high expectations when starting, but it was amazing. It didn't take me that long to read, and is quite fast-paced. 
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my_name_is_not_dayton's review against another edition

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

4.0

I love fairytale retellings to death, and they are by far my favorite genre. With me reading quite a lot of books in this genre, I’ve noticed that authors often stay too true to the original story. So much so, that it starts to become predictable. Christo did a great job of twisting the story in a way that made it fresh, new, and really dark. And I LOVED that dark twist. Having a siren protagonist was a risky move, but she did it so well. I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of this book, and I would have given it one more star if the pacing had been a little smoother. The story moved really fast most of the time and didn’t slow down in spots where it would’ve been beneficial. Overall, though, I loved this book and would recommend it to anyone whose looking for a dark, adventurous fantasy novel that centers around an incredible enemies to lovers romance.
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dcinter's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.5

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olivialoveyloo's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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eve_reads's review

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adventurous dark sad tense 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

3.0

Overall Thoughts:
⁕ As a dual narrative story, Lira’s perspective was much more interesting to me than Elian’s. She has a decent character arc, whereas Elian stays more or less the same throughout the book.

⁕ The dialogue felt choppy and awkward at points. There were big gaps in between characters replying to one another and a few odd turns of phrase that had me re-reading whole sections to figure out what was going on.

⁕ I was intrigued by by Christo’s use of linguistics to show the differences between Lira’s and Elian’s cultures! It only happened like 3 times, but it enhanced the world-building for me.

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