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Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco

4 reviews

_savannahreads_'s review against another edition

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

2.75


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nota_candycaine's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious medium-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

4.25


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mellysay's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny mysterious 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

4.5

AAAAGGHHH OMG THIS BOOK😩😩😩
I loved it so much<333 this is really a five star book and I will recommend it to everyone I come across. I’m gonna order the next book like right now because i need to find out what’s going to happen with Emilia!! I laughed, almost cried, bit my tongue in anger while reading this book. I admit it wasn’t the best book I’ve ever read, the first 60 pages were very boring and confusing, I was about to the put the book on dnf. I’m glad I didn’t! The main character is amazing. I love her so so so much, she is the best. I also live Wrath but we will se how that turns out in the second book. However easily a 5⭐️ Book 📚 

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madarauchiha's review against another edition

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dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

0.25

 ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜  my about / byf / CW info carrd: uchiha-madara 💜 💙 💚 💛 🧡 ❤️

The thing that there's not really a villain in this plot. There's quite unquote bad guys, but they aren't actually legitimately threatening. The
monk character killed a lot of people but so what? He crumpled within a paragraph or so to the mc after being revealed as the killer.
it's not that the mc is never in danger, its that the danger is merely an inconvenience to her. It's never life threatening. Now you might say oh
the snake monster literally nearly killed her. Well that was an animal, not a character with sentience who had been plotting against the mc.


Things just kinda sorta happen around the mc. She doesn't do much to move the plot or cause things to happen. The magic system just felt like Wicca / Paganism. Not a bad thing, just pretty ordinary as far as magic systems go.

A lot happens in this book but at the same time a lot of it just feels like filler. I often found myself more interested in the food descriptions than the characters. Apparently the italian culture wasn't represented authentically. But I have no idea if that's true or not as I'm not italian thank god.
I feel like that entire thing with
envy and the post lsd drop depression
could be gone entirely without much editing. It also felt goofy, like it's trying to make wrath the 'not like other girls' out of all his brothers. I can appreciate that it's stated envy
wouldn't rape anyone under his pseudo lsd influence.
thanks. 

The writing is kinda pretty terrible at times. There was almost half a chapter of nothing but dialogue. I had to slip back some pages a few times to figure out who was saying what. The prose strains to be pretty but it's kind generic ya where it uses fancy words that are completely hollow window dressing.

The prose is passable but really weird at times. Like the first time
the mc meets Envy, an antagonist, she literally says nothing, and for so long. It's so jarring and weird and not something that's intended. I guess I'm glad there isn't cringy, poorly written mcu levels of witty banter. But there is no banter.
imagine seeing this scene as a random passerby. You got a young woman shivering and glaring at a random young man who is saying single word sentences at her. Like, hello police? Local neighbor people? Can someone intervene because theres something weird and inappropriate happening here.

The romance was so... Lackluster. Confusing. Oh she loves him except she doesn't except
he's a lying backstabber but she's going to marry him anyways on her quest to revenge her dead murdered sister
. Ok. Whatever. The romance is so childish and immature. Like I get this is a ya novel but I feel like teenagers deserve better than this. Also the mc nearly died and
to cure her magical hypothermia the male love interest undresses them both and they soak naked in a bathtub of hot water.
keep in mind that before and during and even after the mc clearly doesn't like him. Bro this is
sexual assault
but the MC somehow doesn't care that her
enemy and the person she feared the most since childhood did that to her.


The thing I hate is that the author is trying to make this society all forward thinking and progressive but do we see that? Not really. They still insert that wor'd tidbit of men owning their [adult?] daughters and refusing to let them date casually. And that's it, the rest of the plot and society is extremely sexist.

Black characters / characters of color in this book:

"He was the only child of a tunisian father and chinese mother—and had been playing in a nearby olive tree during the brutal slaying of his parents. His father had witnessed a crime and was going to tell authorities what he saw. Before he could do that, they were killed."


So the one named, conversation having black character has
a brutal backstory and is a servant / slave to a white man. 
ok thanks for the rep you cunt.

Emotions don't feel especially solid or real. Things like gore, murder, death, seeing other poeple's traumas, etc, don't appear to affect her except on occasion. She can say a lot about how angry she feels or how she wants vengeance. But we aren't shown it as much, and it feels unbalanced.

The ending was so goofy? It felt like a tv show that thought it was going to end so the writers planned for it to peter out. But then woops! The tv execs decided to renew it right before the last episode was shot. Bow the tv show writers need a hook to keep people's interest so they shove something incredibly random and out of character for the mc to do in order to make people stick around.

There was nothing in my copy of the ebook that implied or said that this was a series. This sudden 'btw there's moar!!!' ending was so disappointing and irritating. 

Content warnings:

Minor emetophobia, 

Medium sharps, blood, gore, misogyny, emetophobia, violence, unreality, murder, 
 
Major manipulation, drugging but with magic?, body horror, violence, animal death, snakes, gore, blood, religion / catholicism?, death, 

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