To Kill a Kingdom
A siren who collects the hearts of princes is turned human and thrown into the path of the prince who hunts sirens. A Little Mermaid retelling in which both leads are murderers, which is the correct way to do it. On the House's scale it rates 1 for spice (a door, closed), 4 for how much of the book is the romance, and 4 for craft. Readers who want a self-contained enemies-to-lovers with no spice at all.
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How it rates
- Author
- Alexandra Christo
- Series
- Standalone — nothing to wait for
- Spice
- Spice 1 out of 5, A door, closed1/5 · A door, closed
- Romance
- 4/5
- Plot
- 4/5
- Worldbuilding
- 4/5
- Darkness
- 3/5
- Writing craft
- 4/5
- Burn
- Slow burn
- Point of view
- first person, dual
- Ending
- Happy ever after
- Setting
- A hundred kingdoms across a sea full of sirens
- Audience
- Young adult
- Pages
- 336
On the spice rating Kissing only. The tension is built entirely out of mutual intent to kill. How the scale works.
Content warnings violence, murder, abusive parent, gore.
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