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    To Kill a Kingdom
    To Kill a Kingdom
    To Kill a Kingdom
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    To Kill a Kingdom

    By Alexandra Christo

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    Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the one thing they loathe most--a human. Robbed of her song, Lira has until the winter solstice to deliver Prince Elian’s heart to the Sea Queen and or remain a human forever.

    The ocean is the only place Prince Elian calls home, even though he is heir to the most powerful kingdom in the world. Hunting sirens is more than an unsavory hobby--it’s his calling. When he rescues a drowning woman in the ocean, she’s more than what she appears. She promises to help him find the key to destroying all of sirenkind for good--But can he trust her? And just how many deals will Elian have to barter to eliminate mankind’s greatest enemy?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMar 6, 2018
    ISBN9781250112699
    To Kill a Kingdom
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    Alexandra Christo

    Alexandra Christo is a British author whose characters are always funnier and far more deadly than she is. She studied Creative Writing at university and graduated with the desire to never stop letting her imagination run wild. She currently lives in Hertfordshire with a rapidly growing garden and a never-ending stack of books. Her debut novel To Kill a Kingdom is an international bestseller and her Young Adult fantasy books have been translated into over a dozen languages worldwide.

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    • 5/5
      I loved the delayed romance and tension between the supposed enemies
    • 5/5
      Was able to relate with characters emotions. I recommend it
    • 2/5
      While some lines gave me butterflies, the overall content of the book left me wanting so much more. From enemies to lovers in 20 pages, it’s a full course meal stuffed into a tiny appetizer. Disappointing.
    • 4/5
      This book was super entertaining and different from other fantasy books I’ve read recently! Really good length too,
    • 4/5
      An unexpectedly dark adult fairytale! I was skeptical that it might end up being a watered down version of the Little Mermaid and Davy Jones, but I thoroughly enjoyed the author's gory take on the story. I appreciate that the story doesn't completely revolve around the romance, which most YA genres tend to do.
    • 5/5
      For me its a perfect young adult novel: romance + fantasy + adventure :)
    • 4/5
      I loved this reimagining of the Little Mermaid. It is so much better than the Disney version! I didn’t want it to end.
    • 4/5
      As a little girl, my favorite movie in the whole world was The Little Mermaid. Reading this book was like reliving that all over again. While dark and sarcastic with a siren instead of a mermaid, the storyline follows really closely to that of Disney's The Little Mermaid. If you're a fan of Ariel, Eric, and Ursula, this book is sure to bring back that fondness in this creative twist.
    • 4/5
      I'm honestly surprised this was the first retelling of The Little Mermaid to come at the story from this angle—a kind of dark romance of pirates, monsters, and vengeance. I've already recommended it to multiple people I know who have a real connection with the Christian Andersen and Disney versions. You may also know people who would love this book at the intersection of The Little Mermaid/Pirates of the Caribbean/The Night Before Christmas—it seems like a strangely common corner to end up on.
    • 3/5
      3.5 stars
      I liked it but wasn’t blown away by it.
    • 4/5
      If there is one thing that this book confidently emphasizes is the fact that sirens are not the same as mermaids. Sirens, as Christo has put it, are purely made by the magic of the sea like it is a gift that will be returned as an essence to the ocean when these creatures have perished. Sincerely, sirenkind lives forever without the limits of nature that plague mankind, yet all the ruthless killings on the behalf of the queen seem to portray that death haunts these wickedly charming creatures in their wake.

      Dauntlessly cruel, Lira lives in the expectation as the heiress of the throne of the siren kingdom, which encourages her to push her limits in projecting survival by killing and taking the hearts of human princes that earn her the nickname as the Princes' Bane. The encouragement is not necessarily a benevolent one, to put it simply, as it is laced with the subtle threats by her mother who has yet to see Lira as the equal to her throne. On the other hand, the human prince Elian lives in the expectation of monarch that he never wants, in which he believes to be an unfit role that would strangle a free soul like his. His reputation as the person who is apt to kill sirens while searching the magical artifact that could end the brutality from each side precedes him, cementing his fame more as the pirate instead of a prim prince.

      Christo establishes her tale through the trope of star-crossed lovers, which determine to hold Lira and Elian as the seemingly impossible couple that would eventually separate due to the conflicts between their race. At the same time, To Kill a Kingdom looks like a character driven narrative that attempts to analyze its main characters from the root of their internal issues to the spectacular development of their characterization. In doing so, Christo is strictly technical in its growth by planting a seed of an anomaly in their personality, which is not in tune with the typical personality of their species, that would gradually bloom into the dominant temperament of their persona and push them to become better persons. Furthermore, this peculiarity helps to avoid the abrupt changes of their character without any background or weight to uplift this development, which could have dragged the narrative to be a non-monumental disposition to the purpose of Christo's script.

      There is not much to say about her supporting characters other than necessary foil to fill in the blanks of people in a vast horizon, which is why these characters are a little bit underdeveloped because of their primary roles as the interchangeable cameos. Even the tentacled Sea Queen, who portrays such cruelty to her kind and daughter, is quite weak as the principal antagonist of the impossible adventure.

      Continuing in its narrative frailty, the final act of battle between Lira and Elian against her vicious siren mother is visibly feeble in many senses, despite it creates an excellent momentum for Lira to become an individual without the influence of her mother. Her victory is bittersweet while the Sea Queen's death is dismissible like the quick dissipation of her corpse—the hopeful epilogue that exposes the improving relationship between humans and sirens is a rushed conclusion that does not paint the collateral damage of the war, particularly the infamous reputation of Lira and Elian in their respective enemy territory. I would've preferred to see how Christo would illustrate the consequences that they have to face before reaching a peace treaty because there is no way that they could manage such an amendment that quick.

      Minor complaints aside, To Kill a Kingdom is a captivating young adult fantasy book of sirens and humans. There is a part of me that wishes to see more from this universe because its world-building is fascinating, which is filled with a mix of modernism and traditional monarch images. The land of technology could be the first start for a narrative expansion.
    • 5/5
      This book is so captivating! It’s been a long time since I’ve finished a book in a short timeframe and this one came along just for that. It draws you in with the characters and plot twists for sure.
    • 5/5
      Wonderful, simply wonderful. The best parts of what makes a story worth reading
    • 5/5
      This books was simply magical. I absolutely loved it and was mesmerizing by the way of the writing that I truly understood the meaning of “reading is living another life”. I hope I ever find other books like this and it’ll surely remain my favorite for a very long time.
    • 4/5
      This book was a nice change from many other retellings that I’ve read before. It was wicked, it was witty, and by Jove did it make me smile. Lira, our fiery siren princess, was all of these things and more and Elian, prince of Midas, was her perfect match. I loved the relationship between these two characters, they had a classic enemies-to-lovers thing that I just adored; Alexandra Christo wrote these characters well. Speaking of Christo, I deeply enjoyed her writing style. I found that it flowed nicely and was wonderfully descriptive. I would definitely like to read more from her in the future, so perhaps I will pick up “Into the Crooked Place” at some point. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who needs a break from long series, since this is a short-and-sweet standalone!
    • 5/5
      What started out a dark, subversive tale of Mermaids and their darker counterparts, Sirens, turned into a pretty good book. Still it was greatly centered around an obvious romantic tale. Now see, romance is nice and the parts where the two enemies slowly find admiration and love in each other is touching; however, it was filled with great side characters, your co-actors that made this magical tale somewhat contemporary. I don’t really have an aversion for romance, but could we get a YA fantasy book where- the love is lost, the hero or heroine doesn’t find love in the end. Where the world is saved, or evil is abolished and still they are single and on their own, force to battle the dark without that new found love? I mean, a good portion of the kids that I know reading these, well, they shouldn’t be daring anyways - so why have this as a main artery of the heart that is the tale of YA??

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I was engrossed from the moment I started reading. Her writing is phenomenal. She really has a way with her words and descriptions. You feel a part of the adventure.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I liked this way more than I thought I would. I didn't know anything going into this book except for the fact that it was about a siren. Sea creatures have just never been something that really held my attention in creature tales (Mermaids included) so I wasn't sure if I would like this but I was pleasantly surprised. Finals are happening soon at my school so this book was certainly a welcomed distraction. I really did enjoy all the characters. I think they were fairly well fleshed out and had very interesting personality traits but I do wish that Kye and Madrid had a bit more of an explained backstory. I don't know if this will be the first in the series but if it is a stand-alone I wish their characters had been more fleshed out instead of their backstories just being alluded to. I also liked the ending but didn't love it. It was a satisfying ending but also some part of me wanted a little bit more. But overall I loved the journey they went on and I liked the characters and I liked the interaction of a siren in disguise and a pirate prince and his crew.
    • 5/5
      This book is well thought out as well as being well written. If you have some great stories like this one, you can publish it on Novel Star, just submit your story to hardy@novelstar.top or joye@novelstar.top
    • 4/5
      teen fiction (little mermaid retold, but soo much better than that despicably sad Hans C Andersen tale)
      THIS IS INTENSE, but in an action-filled, murderous feelings kind of way rather than romantic. Of course, the two protagonists can't help getting attached to each other despite their being enemies, and I pretty much cannot stop reading this. These are the two most intriguing, likeable, charming pair of murderers you'll ever meet, and the lively banter shared amongst the pirate crew is as sharp as a siren's teeth.
    • 4/5
      I wasn't really sure about TO KILL A KINGDOM after reading the blurb, but it didn't take me long after starting to get into the story. I didn't think I was going to like Lira, but once her story started unfolding and we really started getting to know her it was easy to like her. Elian I liked right away. He was honorable, determined and is a prince to boot so what wasn't there to like? There wasn't an instant love between the two—which was fantastic—in fact, they tried to kill each other at first sight. The romantic feelings between the two were slow to form—REALLY slow—and they both tried to fight the feelings. When it mattered, they were both on the same page. I enjoyed the world of TO KILL A KINGDOM. I like the way the story unfolded and the pace was easy and smooth. The secondary characters were lovable and brought a lot to the story.My only real complaint after reading TO KILL A KINGDOM was that I wish we would have gotten more at the end. We get a glimpse of the aftermath, but I wouldn't have minded seeing more of it. I love a great epilogue. That didn't distract from the great story though.* This book was provided free of charge from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Took me a little while to get hooked but it was surprisingly very enjoyable. The author really created an interesting world.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I enjoyed the reading, but I knew what was going to happen at the end. It's a love story between human and mermaid. This was well written and fun to read.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      5 SQUEES!!

      This was such a gooood book!

      Totally enjoyed the twists and turns and how I felt the connection with the Disney cartoon. Lol

      If you’ve ever been curious as to how it is to have Ursula as a mother, well, PICK UP THIS BOOK! 💖

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      This was a rather pleasant surprise. Anytime you pick up a book from a brand new author, you can never be too terribly sure what the result will be. Yet, in this case, we've actually ended up with an extremely solid narrative by an author who clearly already has the polish needed to turn out a solid and well-written story. Granted, I still expect that her writing will evolve over time, but this is definitely one of the strongest debuts I have read from an author within the genre. Not only that, but it's a truly fantastic book entirely in its own right as well, and holds its own against the other bestsellers out there.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      What started out a dark, subversive tale of Mermaids and their darker counterparts, Sirens, turned into a pretty good book. Still it was greatly centered around an obvious romantic tale. Now see, romance is nice and the parts where the two enemies slowly find admiration and love in each other is touching; however, it was filled with great side characters, your co-actors that made this magical tale somewhat contemporary. I don’t really have an aversion for romance, but could we get a YA fantasy book where- the love is lost, the hero or heroine doesn’t find love in the end. Where the world is saved, or evil is abolished and still they are single and on their own, force to battle the dark without that new found love? I mean, a good portion of the kids that I know reading these, well, they shouldn’t be daring anyways - so why have this as a main artery of the heart that is the tale of YA??

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      sa va dea dracu ca e o carte de cacat
    • 4/5
      One of my first attempts at an audio book and I was pleasantly surprised. A reimagine of the Little Mermaid with a dark and bloody siren spin, I enjoyed the story's plot but what really sold it for me were the performers doing the reading. .Well done.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      fun but did not go as dark as i was hoping for you

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Too many mis-used vocabulary words and too little truly original content (that ending was straight-up Pirates of the Caribbean) made for a book that was fine, but not spectacular.

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    To Kill a Kingdom - Alexandra Christo

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