A review by montina72
A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by Jennifer L. Armentrout

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

SPOILERS 

  • The confusion that is Poppy’s feeling for Cas gets old quick. It’s a cycle of the same 3 feelings for most of the book and it gets boring after the first few times, yes I understand where she’s coming from but the spend 400+ pages mulling over the same things is stretching it. Especially when it doesn’t so much for the development of the plot. 
  • While the pace is the same as the last book it still feels like it’s dragging, 400+ pages in I felt like there’s been such minimal progress. The book started with a marriage proposal and 400+ pages in they’ve barley moved or made it to the kingdom to deal with this marriage thing, it feels rather slow on emotional development. 
  • Kieran and his comments on Poppy asking questions gets irritating the third time he does it. Each time she asks something he has to make a comment on it, it’s not as if she’s been sheltered her whole life from the truth and has been fed lies the whole time. And this ‘joke’ running throughout the whole book is that she annoying. 
  • The most exciting things happen in the last 100 pages, give or take. This whole book could so be cut down to like 400pages instead of 600pages. 
  • Poppy remains a strong character throughout the whole book. She doesn’t turn meek or into a damsel in distress and that I love. Shes strong and she knows it and she used it. She actually has a brain, which I hate having to say but sadly it’s a trait that way too many female main characters do not have. 
  • That one scene in chapter 40, why???? It was so out of place and just plain wrong I hated ever second I skipped it. 
  • The whole book is just repeating itself in different ways and gives the absolute bare minimum on world building or plot development. It was definitely a let down after how good the first book was. 
My favourite line: Biases were taught and learned. Maybe that wasn’t my fault but that didn’t make it acceptable. 
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