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meanwhile, the writing style, again, was superfluous. i skimmed paragraphs upon paragraphs of Emilia saying the same shit in a different font over and over again— it was my issue with the previous book, and my review of that goes into more detail. i cba rehashing old issues lol. Go to hell? Gladly, as long as it’s the version in Kingdom of the Feared by Kerri Maniscalco, and the Prince of Wrath is my betrothed. Done and done. I'm sorry in advance if this bunch of nonsense will be full of typos and incongruous, but it's late and I've been awake since 2012, but I just finished this book and I can't start another one or do anything else really, without putting down some thoughts, first)
When a high-ranking member of House Greed is assassinated, damning evidence somehow points to Vittoria as the murderer. Now, Emilia will do anything to get to the bottom of these accusations against the sister she thought she knew.
Emilia? Her whole personality is just the fact that she wants sex. She occasionally thinks about her sister but mostly it's just sex. Oh and she will often say "goddess above" to make you think she's doing something. News flash- she's not. i know i sound like a blithering old granny but, as someone who read SJM in her youth starting a series that started off YA then gradually became NA (without me having a clue), i would have liked some warning💀 There is also a very common YA fantasy romance trope that happens in this book that I don’t want to give away since it’s a new release. However, I am so mad that Maniscalco put this in the book, regardless of the ending. The feminist in me was screaming.
Hello! This week was FULL of fun KINGDOM OF THE FEARED things. The standard US/UK cover reveal, the B&N Exclusive edition cover reveal, AND the gorgeous Waterstones Exclusive edition and the best part???? The Nerd Daily shared the entire FIRST CHAPTER and Waterstones posted it on their blog this morning too. The first chapter—as well as the book summary— contain spoilers for the first two books, please do not read either if you need to catch up on the series. seriously, every plot twist and bomb she dropped was so good. the Shifting Isles reveal. the truth about their Nona. who the “Feared” are. Vittoria came to show all these other bitches up, i loved her. Wrath honestly felt like a secondary character to me in this final instalment because he felt so... passive. Vitoria and Emilia really propelled the plot forward. with Wrath everything was so stagnant. but im so glad im finally done with this series, it was a mess lmao. and i will be waiting for the spin off💅🏻 Selling one's soul? Emilia points out that it should not be easy. But reality is, that it is easy cause when the moment of temptation comes, when the moment you want everything you desire is right in front of your eyes; the devil will try everything in its power to get you to sell your soul. I hope if a time like that arises in your life, you're able to resist, flee and rebuke. We get the answers we’ve been waiting for. But you would think 3 books later Emilia would have grown up and become less naive. Nope!!! Just because she has powerful magic doesn’t mean she’s a powerful fmc, and I wish Maniscalco understood that.i kid you not her head was empty other than thoughts of sex. it just got progressively worse and worse, like i am not exaggerating when i tell you she thought of little else but sex for the majority of the book. or if it wasn’t necessarily sex, everything just had sexual undertone to it or was motivated by sex. it was actually so exhausting. There were moments I felt my heart sink a little for how ridiculous they were, and moments I was amazed by Maniscalco's genius. tw/cw: blood depiction, getting blood for magic, kidnapping, captivity, murder, death, grief depiction, violence, war themes, and abandonment. Who could possibly read: "All he does is lounge about with his books. His House is one giant, messy library." and not go completely feral for the guy. I happily volunteer to be his love interest whenever Kerri Maniscalco writes his book. After that, I'll dig out all the Kerri Maniscalco's books I haven't read, and binge on them like there's no tomorrow.
Coming to Antonio's character- any man who tries to do good (work of God) by using evil, especially through the means of fallen angels aka demons.. isn't doing the right thing. I just had to say that, because people do create false ways of judgements in their heads even if they believe they're doing the right things. I'll begin by saying that this series started out strong. The first book was excellent. The second was less so, but I thought it was just a bridge type of sequel in a trilogy, so I didn't mind that it was overly long and that nothing important seemed to happen. I thought the second book was just setting up an epic ending, and I was excited for it. Sure, all the questions I've had ever since I first read KotW were answered, but I didn't expect them to be presented so matter-of-factly and with little to no conflict. Fortunately I found that things do improve about halfway through as the various plot threads are given a chance to settle and the overall pieces of the puzzle start to come together. I had some issues with how things wrap up, but before I get into spoiler territory, can I just touch on the spice level for this one? Good god. (Sorry, I mean devil.) Despite much of the book being set in a literal frozen hellscape, the author really turns up the heat up this time around. You can expect an abundance of [redacted] being put in [redacted] and then even some [redacted] getting [redacted].Finally, I can't not mention the world-building. I think the underworld Maniscalco's created is interesting and while hell looks more like the set of Bridgerton than the fire and torture version we're all used to, it was a nice take and an effort I didn't dislike. I forgot to mention Emilia got on my nerves a lot. Not just because of her sex-crazed state, but because I felt like she was trying too hard to be tough and badass. I don't quite know how to explain it. She just gave off weird vibes the whole time. I'm lowering my rating to 2 stars, because while writing this review i realized i was too generous with my original rating.
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