Reviews

Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco

lenaoknihach's review against another edition

5.0

Vítejte v pekle! V prvním díle jsme objevovali zákoutí italského Palerma, teď jsme se dostali do podsvětí. Hříchy Emilii nedají spát a zkouší ji na každém kroku. Touha, závist, hněv… a do toho ji Ira dělá společnost na cestě za jejím budoucím manželem Orgoliem.

Království prokletých se mi líbilo ještě víc než Království hříšných, protože jsem tady dostala přesně to, co mi v úvodní knize chybělo. Více pekelných princů! Více akce! A do třetice i více peprných scén!

Mezi hlavními hrdiny to neskutečně jiskřilo a já si jejich rozhovory (někdy ne úplně poklidné) užívala. Při hláškách, které ty dva vypustí z pusy, se někdy zasmějete a jindy zas přejdou na vážnou notu, že v napětí čekáte, co bude dál.

Kerri Maniscalco si na závěr připravila šokující zvrat, a protože překlad závěrečného dílu je zatím velká neznámá, je čekání na velké finále a rozuzlení o to nesnesitelnější. Ale rozhodně doporučuji se do této série pustit. Emilie a pekelní princové za to stojí.

baconk14's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

3.0

lizard99's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

llau's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

4.0

cobaltbookshelf's review against another edition

1.0

I wasn't into first one but I hate to leave series unfinished so here we are. Plot was all over the place at least in first one I liked setting. Keri only knows to write "badass girlboss" that in reality are so annoying I wanted to dnf book so many times. Ship is also bland and I'm breaking my rule, literally don't care what happens I'm not reading last one.

letter2self's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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

4.5

jenny_pinca's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

victoria1994's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

mkl079's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

claud_ost's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

3.5

Ummm idk what to really say about this book. I will say I was intrigued but I will also say I was confused. And while I do love Wrath… Emilie isn’t my favorite. I feel like she goes from badass to complete idiot in the span of a chapter. 

Also I’m uncertain how I feel about their relationship. Like I want to love it but I feel like you only ever see physical attraction between them especially in this book. And not like a friendship or something deeper than physical forming. Onto what I thought was confusing about this book… Magical artefacts, a magic tree, talking skulls spouting riddles, witch-goddesses, the devil’s curse, the original witch, the witch murders in KotW, the crone…I’m exhausted listing it all. There’s just so much to keep track of, link and contextualise, especially considering most of it doesn’t come into play until the second half. On top of it Emilie had soooo many different theories about literally everything that I felt like it was shard to keep track of which theories were right and which ones were wrong. Okay but all in all I was really only surprised by like one plot point and that being the Victoria is still alive and working with Antonio. And on top of all that Wrath KNOWS!!! I was not shocked by the fact that Wrath is the devil as once Emilie wondered it for the first time I thought it could make sense.