Both the Little Mermaid and the Sea Witch characters of the originally fairytale are remade into the most dysfunctional family dynamic, where the Sea Witch is constantly trying to retain her place as queen while also supposedly grooming her heir. The sirens were super interesting, and I really liked their world. When Lira gets made human against her will she initially pretends to help Elian on his own quest while planning to murder him. Lira is a siren known as the ‘Princes’ Bane’ who murders Princes as a way of proving herself worthy of succession, and Elian is a prince who dislikes Princely life and instead takes to the seas to murder sirens. It’s a retelling of The Little Mermaid that gives the mermaid much more agency, and makes (attempts to make?) the two main characters more morally grey. To Kill A Kingdom appealed to me mostly because it had an incredibly interesting concept. Why did I want to read?I like flawed characters, and fairy tales. Robbed of her song, Lira has until the winter solstice to deliver Prince Elian’s heart to the Sea Queen or remain a human forever. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the one thing they loathe most-a human. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. * I received a free arc from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review*
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