Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo

11 reviews

thewillowwood's review

adventurous dark funny hopeful inspiring tense 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

5.0

I read this in one fell swoop during a long flight. I can’t think of any complaints. Well paced, interesting worldbuilding, loveable and complex characters. A fun, fast paced fantasy read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Body horror, Physical abuse, Murder, War, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse and Confinement

Minor: Trafficking and Slavery

stepnic's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and War

Minor: Confinement, Sexual harassment, Cursing, and Torture

jadehusdanhicks's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.25

A great fantasy book this story follows lira the siren princess and prince Elian the reknowned siren killer/hunter. 
Initially being punished by her mother and made human to take Elians heart.  They wind up hunting for a jewel that in human hands could end the sirens and in sirens hands end the humans but the outcome is neither and you’ll have to read to find out.  

Somewhat of a slow burn enemies to lovers too I enjoyed this fantasy despite it not pertaining the kind of magic and format I love in fantasy normally it was amazing and very well written and one to stay on my shelf for a lifetime. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Medical content, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Blood, War, Gun violence, and Violence

viireads's review

adventurous challenging medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, and Torture

nicole_m's review

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

4.75

I loved this book. <Spoiler> The enemies to lovers between Lira and Elian is great and the betrayal Lira put him through was better but the fact that he couldn’t kill her after is even better. The story line includes adventure, theft, lying, etc which is my cup of tea

. I gave this book 4.75  because I enjoyed it but the ending felt a little anticlimactic to me. Overall, great book and you should give it a try. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

Moderate: Blood and Outing

Minor: Alcohol, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Genocide, Medical content, and Torture

If the warnings above trigger you than I don’t recommend this book. If not then give it a try if you like and enjoy!

seasickkkkk's review

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gaslighting, Medical content, Murder, Slavery, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, and War

my_name_is_not_dayton's review

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death

Moderate: Confinement and Cursing

arttichokedipp's review

adventurous 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? It's complicated

1.0

I rate books 1-star for two reasons
1) I wish I weren’t alive by the end of it or
2) I think the book is genuinely dangerous
To Kill A Kingdom, unfortunately, falls into the latter category. It’s a nice story, and I enjoyed it. Would have liked to see more diverse characters in terms of sexuality and disability, but it was overall a fun spin and I liked the distinction between sirens and merpeople and wished the classism was explored there more. But the way this book glorifies self-harm is dangerous. The protagonist is a masochist and the author does not let you forget it for a single chapter. When she is injured she enjoys it, but worse is that she self-harms in potentially fatal ways for stress relief and then gets that relief. That’s a dangerous message to send, and if I had to pick only one trigger warning for this book it would be that.

Tl;dr if you have any history of depression or self-harm, or if you’re under 16 or so, this book is dangerous for you. Don’t read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Murder, Self harm, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Genocide, Gore, Grief, and Torture

Minor: Pregnancy

catchmereadingnotsleeping's review

adventurous 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Violence, Death, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Confinement

millirain's review

adventurous lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Gun violence, and Murder