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Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco

30 reviews

bobaandbookstores's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

whatbeccareadnext's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

After the incredible let down that was Kingdom of the Feared, I was a bit apprehensive to read this book. I was, however, pleasantly surprised. I loved the juxtaposition between the Regency England-esque human realm and the underworld. Where I think the Kingdom trilogy found itself awkwardly straddling between YA and adult, Throne of the Fallen is undoubtedly an adult novel, and suitably spicy to match. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gore, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment and Classism

Minor: Death of parent and Alcohol

nattattack_12's review against another edition

3.75

🌶️🌶️ very spicy
It did have a good plot and the s*x scenes were adding to the plot. I just wasn’t ready for how descriptive it was as I didn’t usually read that spice level in books 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Spicy - quite descriptive scenes at times- honestly the spiciest book I’ve ever read and I wasn’t ready for it.

graceev's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment

Blackmail

midnightrose_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Throne of the Fallen is the adult fantasy romance debut from Kerri Maniscalco. It’s Prince Envy’s story from the Kingdom of the Wicked world. Along with his romantic lead, Camilla Antonius. This was a fun steamy book that expanded on a fan favorite Prince of Hell’s story and I’m looking forward to the other two Prince’s stories (particularly Pride and Lucia!).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

soniajoy98's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicide, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Domestic abuse, Mental illness, and Vomit

bedtimesandbooks's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Sexual assault

britwalsh16's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

The amount of tabs I have in this book is ridiculous!!! I just LOOOOVE Camilla & Envy!! And the sass!!! Camilla is so sassy, I love it!! She gives it right back to Envy, beating him at his own games! 💚
The twists & turns in this book were incredible too! Some I saw coming, some that took me completely by surprise! 
And all the references from Kingdom Of The Wicked! And the jealousy between Envy & Camilla is on point! I can’t get enough of it! I already want to reread it! 
In the words of Kerri herself..
"For those who can’t help falling for the villain and love a sinfully wicked fairy tale, this one is for you."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Sexual assault, Torture, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Kidnapping and Death of parent

laylareadsthings's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I adore the Kingdom of the Wicked series, and especially loved the (under)world-building that trilogy set up. The demon princes are a wild time, and diving into Envy’s book was such a ride. This book is definitely more adult than YA, but I think also keeps a lot of the whimsy and fun that only YA fantasy worlds can weave. 

This is a behemoth of a book, but the plot and pacing are great. Pauses to breathe where it needs to, and doesn’t waste time info dumping or describing something if it’s not necessary to keep the story going. I’m intrigued by literally every new side character who’s introduced and cameos from the KotW trilogy feel organic and serve to further the story and Envy’s character. 

I was hooked into the romance from the first barbs exchanged between these two. I laughed out loud more than once. I would fold so fast in a relationship like this, I can’t take the slightest HINT of a tease, but omg what FUN to read these two just ruthlessly go after each other haha. Games on games were played, and I loved it. Envy is nothing if not a mastermind and so it takes someone with just as cunning a brain and more than enough strength of character to match that. 

I’d give this book only a 1.5 - 2 on the spice scale, but look I read A LOT of spice so my scale might be skewed 😅. 

The reveal of Camilla’s true character was really the only hiccup here for me. In any book, I really do despise a conflict that could have been resolved or addressed at literally any point in time during the book with a conversation, and so for about 10 pages at the 90% mark I wanted to just scream non stop. You can guess fairly early on what Camilla is, but there was such richness to her back story, I think I would have been more impacted by it if there had been more breadcrumbs along the way. No time is wasted wrapping it up though, and the resolution is believable.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Murder

kayanoelle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious 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

3.25

I really enjoyed the book, Camilla is a great protagonist and her and Envy‘s dynamic was amazing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Gore, Torture, Blood, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Vomit