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A review by pacey1927
Kingdom Cold by Brittni Chenelle
3.0
Thank you to NetGalley for a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.
I love fantasies. Epic, dark, honestly I love them all. But "Kingdom Cold" was a disappointment. I don't go into a book trying to find things that are wrong with it. But this book had some problems. The story is all over the place. The pacing is off as it moves slowly in some parts and then there are suddenly a bunch of plot twists within a few pages. The main characters are not fleshed out and I ended up not connecting with any of them. There are some passages which I just hated where the main heroine almost accepts being treated poorly by men. Some others have complained of racism but I felt like that wasn't as intense as some others portrayed. I think there was a point to that where we were supposed to know that the people making the comments were bad guys. Also there wasn't anything unique to the story that made the plot stand out from what is already out there. I do think this author has a lot of potential and if I was to hazard a guess I believe that her next books will be much stronger. I've seen it happen a lot before.
I love fantasies. Epic, dark, honestly I love them all. But "Kingdom Cold" was a disappointment. I don't go into a book trying to find things that are wrong with it. But this book had some problems. The story is all over the place. The pacing is off as it moves slowly in some parts and then there are suddenly a bunch of plot twists within a few pages. The main characters are not fleshed out and I ended up not connecting with any of them. There are some passages which I just hated where the main heroine almost accepts being treated poorly by men. Some others have complained of racism but I felt like that wasn't as intense as some others portrayed. I think there was a point to that where we were supposed to know that the people making the comments were bad guys. Also there wasn't anything unique to the story that made the plot stand out from what is already out there. I do think this author has a lot of potential and if I was to hazard a guess I believe that her next books will be much stronger. I've seen it happen a lot before.