#princess lira

[bubbleglitterbust]

Here’s Lira and John Dory on their date night before Trolls Band Together. They love camping, especially at night.

This was when they were slowly falling in love but weren’t dating yet. Lira didn’t know John Dory was from BroZone at first since she hadn’t been interested in the band when she lived in the Troll Tree.

As always, you're welcome to ask questions about them. I'm happy to answer.

[adrasteaeydiate]

To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo

My favorite parts - 5

This whole scene 😭😭😭 I only included the beginning here but this whole scene was the best in my opinion and I really cried like a baby again especially when Elian said ,, I believe in you'' to Lira 😭😭♥️

[positivewitch]

And the ocean, calling out to us both. A song of freedom and longing

[iguessimdifficult]

i’ve just finished tkak and i’m already missing lira and elian🤧

[booksaremyadventures]

“You can't win a war. Someone else just loses.” ― To Kill a Kingdom

By Alexandra Christo

[injupiterdreaming]

🌊🐚🖤── to kill a kingdom; lira and elian.

TO KILL A KINGDOM, by Alexandra Christo

[dreamerofthefantastical]

Torik out here being every adult in every YA book ever:

🤣😂😅

[whenifallinlove-itwillbeforever]

It’s like holding a story rather than a person; she feels wild and infinite in my arms.

Alexandra Christo’s To Kill a Kingdom

I wish I could be as wild as the ocean that raised me! (Original quote “In my heart, I’m as wild as the ocean that raised me.” ) For real though I swim really bad, it’s a wonder something bad hasn’t happened to me yet. Also I get anxiety attacks in deep water so actually I can’t be as wild as Princess Lira. Nevermind.

This book was an original in it’s own right. I love mermaids but even more I love sirens! I love that whole redeeming moment opportunity that sirens have. I have since seeing Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - although I’m still upset that the siren/mermaid and the preacher dude weren’t endgame. But whatever.

To Kill a Kingdom is meant to be a retelling of the Little Mermaid. However, this wasn’t like how Beastly from Alex Flinn was a retelling of Beauty and the Beast (my fave) where the storyline was sort of similar. In fact, if someone asked me for a little mermaid retelling I wouldn’t immediately think of TKaK. The only similarity was the moment when Prince Eric was drowning and Ariel saved him. Instead, Prince Elian is unconscious while riding the tide and Princess Lira saves him so she could steal his heart like a good little siren.

TKaK is about a princess Siren heir who’s broken a rule and is forced to give her mom the queen a huge ass boon in order to be forgiven. Instead, she’s like, hell nah, I’m gonna take this opportunity to get what’s mine. Prince Elian is a nobleman in the street, but a pirate in the bed (YEAH!). However, his parents are slightly-but-not-really cool with him avoiding his birthright to hunt sirens down and kill them for revenge. This is an enemies-to-lovers through and through. (Enemy is oddly spelled especially when it’s plural. I feel like that little squid thing from Finding Nemo when she says “I’m a sea anemone!” If that scene even happened - I could’ve made it up just now. I find myself sounding it out like I’m 5 instead of 26. E-ne-mies. Enemies. Eminems?) 

I did like this book. It was interesting and I really wanted to get to the moment when Elian finds out Lira is who he’s been hunting because I adore love conflict. I don’t like a relationship in a book that didn’t have some sort of major conflict and when done right it’s beautiful. However, when that moment came I felt it was anti-climactic. But also, from that point on I felt that way for the rest of the book. I felt like, ok we know what’s going to happen I can just stop reading and call it a day. There’s going to be this big battle, Lira’s going to do something good surprising Elian into realizing she’s become a lovely woman and he’s going to accept how he feels and they’ll live happily ever after blah blah blah. I’m actually glad I didn’t stop reading because while most of that was true… that ending tho. I’m bothered by it. I get that everyone got what they wanted, but I felt that could be handled better just based off the conditions we knew Lira could adjust to.

I would recommend this book to anyone looking for an emenies-to-lovers (look I spelled enemies wrong again… I’m leaving it.) book. I especially liked that there were pirates - those are always fun. And overall I thought it was a good book.

3.5/5 ⭐

I bet y’all are wondering what does a 5/5 ⭐ look like to this person?!