At times it feels like Maniscalco doesn’t know how to prove to the audience that Emilia and Wrath have feelings for one another without smut. The novel reads as nothing more than a bad fanfiction instead of the published novel it’s supposed to be. It’s constant smut, and not in a good way. In fact, Emilia cannot be in the same room as Wrath without her mind drifting toward sex. Instead of being able to hold a conversation, the pair simply resort to ripping one another’s clothes off. A lot of chemistry with little reactionĮmilia and Wrath’s original appeal was the enemies-to-lovers banter included in the beginning of the series, but that is completely turned on its head in Kingdom of the Feared. She created my favorite ship in her previous series Stalking Jack the Ripper.

Especially when I take into consideration that Maniscalco can write characters with chemistry. A huge disconnect from this book with other books within the fantasy young adult/new adult genre is the lack of romance between the characters, which I found to be completely unsatisfying. The plot, the characters-nothing felt developed, which led to a rather disappointing end to such an anticipated release. While the general idea seems intriguing, this book did not hold up to the quality of Maniscalco’s other series or even the previous two books within this series. Almost everything she had built up to fell flat. 27, continues to follow Emilia and Wrath as they now investigate the death of an important general from House Greed, all while trying to keep Emilia’s not-so-dead twin sister from going down a dark path of death and destruction. Kingdom of the Feared, published on Sept. The second novel ramped up the stakes, and the spice, ending with a shocking reveal.

Emilia, a mortal witch, and Wrath, a Prince of Hell, took the stage begrudgingly bound to one another in the investigation of the murder of Emilia’s twin sister, Vittoria. The first book threw readers into a world of witches, vampires, werewolves, and demons. Kingdom of the Feared is the third and final installment of Kerri Maniscalco’s Kingdom of the Wicked Trilogy.

The kingdom of the feared