A review by durrareadsstuff
To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo

adventurous dark funny hopeful lighthearted slow-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

4.0

I loved this book! Normally I'm not too fond of slow-paced books, but I felt like it was necessary to build up tension and sort of provide a backgrounds for the conflicts. Most of all, I like how the characters are so well developed in here cause I feel like in the case of stand-alone novels, usually authors don't get that much room to develop their characters. But I love these characters so much!! Lira is such a strong and tenacious (girl?siren?) and despite growing up and primed to be a ruthless monster, she's learned to embrace the "humanity" inside of her and found out it's not so bad being human. I mean, CHARACTER ARC YALLSS. I also really really appreciate the dual pov in here. Prince Elian is also a well-constructed character; he's charming, brilliant, confident and he's a prince/pirate which I'm sorry, but he reminds me a tiny bit of Nikolai. I LOVE Madrid's character and also her "relationship" with Kye. Cracks me up. And I love the loyalty and the respect and love between Lira and Kahlia, however I do think she was just left out of the picture after the "happy ending". I mean, WHAT HAPPENED TO KAHLIA?? I need more family love content.

I think the enemies to lovers trope was executed quite well in here, I'm not too crazy of the trope but I really liked it in here. The romance was slow burn and at times a little heartbreaking, although, did they really have to make out during a war?? I mean, that scene was weird. But I do love the banter between them. The writing was okay, it was not above average I guess, but not that beautiful. But yeah, it's easy to read. For me, the plot twists weren't all that shocking, but I still enjoyed it. The whole world building and how it's sort of surrounded by legends was so cool. I loved the whole pirate-y atmosphere. 

Overall, loved reading this, but there were some parts where I was like, um okay. Maybe not? But those were not common occurrences across the book, so good read. 
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