Kingdom of the Wicked Hardcover – 27 October 2020

The book is written perfectly well with exact amount of deception and cunningness with greed and envy.A great book, a must read for fantasy fans.

Demon and witch who accidently summoned him. Sign me up please.

The product was packed and received nicely and was in a good quality ☺️ happy to have it

I was okay. I felt it was like a lot of fragmented pieces stuck together without finesse. There was no flow. No building. The story was good just the delivery a bit off. I don’t how else to explain but all i can think reading this book is there is no flow.

Kerri's writing has been one of my favourites recently and I can't seem to get enough. Beautiful writing and plot building.

While I did enjoy certain parts, I felt it was dragging till the end with nothing really impactful happening. I love book series but with this one I don't think I'm gonna buy the 2nd book any sooner.

Family, especially sibling bond is a really important thing for me. Book series like A Court of Thorns and Roses was really a put down for me and have deteriorated my mental health and I was searching for books where great siblings bonds are portrayed. This book was on my tbr for a long while but when I read about the main protagonist going crazy trying to retrieve vengeance for the death of her twin I couldn't stay away any longer.I really liked the Emilia.Liked that she is cultured and lovely but when necessary she could be savage and monstrous. While I really hate characters, doesn't matter which gender,who are rude without a cause towards people who are trying to be helpful, I found her impoliteness and wariness towards the Duoteragonist Wrath really interesting and justified.The perpetrator was obvious. The traitor was obvious too. All in all I found the whole plot really obvious but Kerri's writing was what set the atmosphere and held the interest of the readers. The old Victorian atmosphere in Sicily. The description of everything, including the food and items needed for witchcraft weren't long and were put out as long as they held interest and necessity.All in all I am held up and excited for the next book and am hoping to really see where Maniscalco takes us next with Emilia and possibly Wrath.

Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco is the first part in the the paranormal YA fantasy duology. It deals with two witches, who are twins and a prophecy which was kept hidden from them all these years. Vittoria and Emilia, live with human and have their witch identity hidden. Their grandmother, Nonna, also a witch wishes to keep them away from trouble and witchcraft. She knows more than she has told her grand daughters.One fine evening, Vittoria goes missing and Emilia finds her dead. Emilia and Vittoria are quite different. Vittoria was always the bold one and was looking for answers and ways to experiment with their magic. Whereas, Emilia was the subtle and out of trouble, not taking risks kind of a person. But as she finds out some one has killed her sister, she is looking for vengeance and won't stop until she has find the murderer.On the quest to find her sister, she finds other secrets and her sister's dairy which is filled with secret magic and won't be accessible that easily. In order to find the truth, Emilia has to summon a demon from the Hell. We come to know that in total there are seven Princes of Hell. She summoned the Prince of Wrath. I personally liked this concept of Demons, Realms, Hell and The Wicked.Now coming to the romance part, of course it being enemy to lovers, I enjoyed it. But it could have executed in a way better way. The first half or almost 60% few by very smoothly and I could not put it down. I was craving to read more till this point. But suddenly, after this point the story just went down hill for me. Suddenly the entire atmosphere of the book changed, idk why. The murder mystery solving part was great, btw.Well, there has been death of many other witches in the town, so solving the mystery of why suddenly the girls hearts have been ripped was the main aim of the book. Now, the demon side was pretty well explained and executed actually. I liked how we got notes from the Grimoire in the starting of the chapters. Even little details like clothes and all were a supporting hand in making this book dark and witchy.The secrets revealing and twists and turns was great. But the ending was rushed. It felt very rushed. We did get quite a few hints on what to expect in the next book, and I am definitely going to read it in order to see where it goes next.Thanks to NetGalley and James Paterson Books for providing me eARC in exchange for a honest opinion.P.S. - my NetGalley arc said Vittoria whereas, Goodreads blurb says Victoria. So idk, I am going with what my ARC said.