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A review by marufahoque
Kingdom Cold by Brittni Chenelle
1.0
This book has multiple POVs...in FIRST person narration. You've been warned.
With that said, that was the majority of the problem I found with this book. The characters all read like the same person. It would have been better if the story was told in third-person limited or omniscient (depending on how much the author wants the reader to know).
This book also needs another round (or three) of edits: grammar (switching between present and past), weird use of modern jargon in a complete fantasy setting, and what's with the story of Camelot thrown in? It just didn't make sense until right at the end.
I also liked NONE of the characters (maybe because they all sounded the same) and their actions didn't make any sense.
The setting and worldbuilding felt non-existent, I couldn't picture where each character was at any given point in the story. Lots of kingdom names were thrown at us, but it was like, so what? There was nothing to establish the relationships between these places; it would've been easier for us to understand if we had a closer connection to the characters and how they perceived each of the kingdoms.
I really wanted to like this book because the two main characters were non-white (black and Asian), but I just couldn't. I got the same feelings I did when I read Dragonfly, another fantasy book with a hate-love romance between the two royals of different ethnicities, and I DID NOT like that book.
Overall, it could use another reworking of the story, but so far, I do not recommend it (and won't be reading the rest of the series).
With that said, that was the majority of the problem I found with this book. The characters all read like the same person. It would have been better if the story was told in third-person limited or omniscient (depending on how much the author wants the reader to know).
This book also needs another round (or three) of edits: grammar (switching between present and past), weird use of modern jargon in a complete fantasy setting, and what's with the story of Camelot thrown in? It just didn't make sense until right at the end.
I also liked NONE of the characters (maybe because they all sounded the same) and their actions didn't make any sense.
The setting and worldbuilding felt non-existent, I couldn't picture where each character was at any given point in the story. Lots of kingdom names were thrown at us, but it was like, so what? There was nothing to establish the relationships between these places; it would've been easier for us to understand if we had a closer connection to the characters and how they perceived each of the kingdoms.
I really wanted to like this book because the two main characters were non-white (black and Asian), but I just couldn't. I got the same feelings I did when I read Dragonfly, another fantasy book with a hate-love romance between the two royals of different ethnicities, and I DID NOT like that book.
Overall, it could use another reworking of the story, but so far, I do not recommend it (and won't be reading the rest of the series).