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A Kingdom of Flame and Fury by Whitney Dean

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mpickens's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

4.0

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. The insta love was super insta so a little more build up would have been nice.

Also, I don't understand the conflict I guess. This whole book could have been avoided if Zeke just told the truth and made Raven promise to go along with the ruse. But it made for some great spicy scenes and I love their chemistry.

Cade gives off "nice guy" energy and I cringe everytime he's around.

The spice was excellent - I loved e very second of it. I've never been into dark romance but this had me begging for more.

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hopecobblepotworld's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.0

Stars: 🌟 🌟🌟🌟

Scoville Spice Scale: 🌶🌶🌶½

Book overview:

At ten years old, Raven was mysteriously willed to be the next ruler of Seolia, a kingdom nestled within the realm of The Four Kingdoms. Orphaned as a baby, she has spent fifteen years ruling over a kingdom she believes she did not earn all while hiding secrets: she possesses dark magic, and she thirsts for blood.

Now at almost twenty-five years old and with a sudden addiction to stealing life, Raven must fight through her new procured darkness to save her soul, but when a mysterious stranger arrives in her kingdom, she starts experiencing vivid dreams that detail who she truly is. As she slowly starts to unravel her story, what she uncovers at the end of the spool will change the course of her life and her kingdom forever.

My Thoughts:

Raven, the FMC of this book, has been lied to by everyone. By her best friend. By her Court. And now by Zeke, our MMC who is tangled in his shadows, shortcomings, and misdirection. Raven rules the small island nation of Seolia but she still doesn't understand why she was chosen. Things unravel to us, the reader, but not to Raven until the end. Raven is caught between two men who seem hell bent on hurting her; secrets about herself; and her evolving magic. While Raven has her Elements, she must learn to depend on herself rather than those who have their own agendas.

One of the things I really enjoyed about this book was the excellent Worldbuilding. I felt totally immersed in the kingdom of Seolia. I loved the village and the progression of Raven's relationships with the villagers. Especially Eva.

Tropes:

🔥Forced Proximity

🌎Abandonment

❄️Love Triangle

⚔️Insta-Lust

🔥Magic

🌎Secrets

❄️One Bed

⚔️Break Up, Make Up, Break Up, etc.

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Thank you to rrbooktours and authorwhitneydean for a gifted copy in exchange for an honest opinion.

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bellebookcorner's review against another edition

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dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

I really want to like this one because the blurb sounds interesting, unfortunately this one was not what I expected. It has the potential to be a good series with unique world building and magical powers. Unfortunately, I didn’t fully enjoy reading it for some reasons.

At the beginning I was enjoying the story, the writing style is actually pretty good. There’s no info dumping – the world building was explained as the story goes.

Raven (FMC) has an interesting power and she was such a badass in the first few chapters, I also like how she cared for her people and interact with them and in return they also respect and accept her.

However, things started to go downhill when Raven meets the love interest – Zeke. Raven’s character started to change into this whiny and weak character, like she can’t do anything and started losing herself.

I’m not fond of Zeke’s character as well, I questioned his decision-making skill. I don’t understand his reason for his actions toward Raven which only prolong Raven’s misery instead of helping her.

I wasn’t a huge fan of the insta-love happening between Raven and Zeke. There wasn’t any progress of getting to know each other.

I usually don’t mind with spicy books as long as it balanced out with the plot but for me this one has slightly too many spicy scenes.

I was also surprised that the mystery of this plot with Raven’s past and Zeke’s mission was revealed very early at the beginning which confused me even more. The plot started to shift into focusing more about the love triangle romance which slows the pacing down and I started to lose interest in the plot.

Some scenes/topics can be sensitive to some readers so I highly suggest checking out the trigger warnings before picking up this dark fantasy romance series.

⚠️ 𝐓𝐖: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse and Blood

<i>Thank you to RR Book Tour and the author for giving me an e-ARC of the book and for having me on this book tour. I’m leaving this review voluntarily.</i>

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kelswoodward's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Secrets, soulmates, and all the spice. This book was a wild ride from the very first page. Raven is an absolute force of a main character. She’s smart, strong, beautiful, witty and powerful but she is also haunted by questions about herself and a fear that she will never be loved or truly accepted. We get to watch her unravel the truth of her mysterious history, discover parts of herself that she never knew existed, and fall into a love that not only consumes her but saves her as well. Raven, Zeke, and everyone in their circle must uncover years of deceit to reveal the truth about her identity and the fate of their very kingdoms, but the lies they must tell along the way to protect those they love may change the course of everything they’re trying to protect. This story is dark, emotional, and thrilling; it delivers constant excitement, emotion, action, romance and magic. The dynamic between Raven and Zeke is so alluring it makes this book impossible to put down, and had me scrambling to read the next book so I could see how their story continues. Do not walk, run to grab this book.

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boundbymischief's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

This book was SO good! From start to finish. A roller coaster of love and hate. Best friends and soulmates and enemies and royalty. Raven is a baddie, Zeke is daddy. It had everything I adore in fantasy novels. I was hooked as soon as those gray eyes appeared 🫠

•dual POV

•Spiiiiiiiice 🥵 🔥

•forbidden love

•dark secrets/secret identities

•reverse harem

•dark romantasy

•toxic relationships

•willtheywontthey

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hckilgour's review against another edition

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Got to page 53 for dnf’ing. This had potential if everything just hadn’t been all over the place.

My first issue was the narration style of Raven. She just came off as very egocentric and it was annoying.

The second was all the contradictions. Cade is 8 years older than her, yet was 18 when she took the crown at like 8? Though maybe that’s wrong because it got jarbled. She likes Cade, but he’s more like a brother. She’s this super strong character yet the smallest thing has her sobbing. She’s really rearing for a lay but runs away from Zeke after just kissing for no discernible reason.

I just couldn’t get into it.

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bookingwithjanelle's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

There is a lot going on in this book and I enjoy reading it. The author does an excellent job of world and character building for the reader to really immerse themself into the story. I will admit that it was a little slow-going for me in the first third of the book, but once it picked up, I couldn’t put it down.

With all the lies, secrets, and dark romance this story takes you on a roller coaster of feelings, many of them dark & twisted. The MC is pushed and pulled in different directions, not knowing who to trust…jumping back and forth between two men, both who claim to love her and both manipulating her in some way.

It leaves the reader grasping for what happens next, and I hope to read the next book and find out how much of a badass Raven is going to become when she owns who she is.

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