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To Kill a Kingdom is a story about Lira, a siren from the royal family who is cursed by the Sea Queen to turn into a human until she can take the heart of the siren killer and Elian, a prince, the siren killer and captain to a crew of siren hunters who wants to kill the Prince's Bane.
The story is a fantasy romance, retelling and of course, an enemies to lovers. No wonder, booktok loves it. Now, towards the review.
List of the Good Things :-
The Banter - It was A+, it understood the assignment. It was fun, exciting and full of chemistry.
The Characters - The growth these guys went through are amazing. I would recommend going into the book blind because it really comes with a surprise.
It's a retelling, a Little Mermaid one but without the whole true love and damsel in distress crap. Both of them are a 180 degree turn from the original and honestly, that's what it needed.
Downsides :-
Well, about the enemies-to-lovers, it's not exactly love, it's development, as person who stans this trope, I can say I didn't like it. I personally think you cannot develop the arc in one novel, you need a proper book series to do this, ex - Folk of the Air or ACOTAR.
I don't know how to explain this one but I think booktok had hyped this book so much that when I read it, it was just disappointing and somewhere it just missed a mark. If it had what it needed, it would have been 5 stars.
Overall Rating - ⭐⭐⭐
Would recommend for entertainment and fun, but nothing really amazing.
Till the Next
Happy Reading!
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