BOOK REPORT

TO KILL A KINGDOM

Author: Alexandra Christo

               „To Kill a Kingdom“ - her first novel

               „Into the Crooked Place“ – her second book

                lives in Hertfordshire

Genre:    Fantasy Fiction

Editor: Publisher HOT KEY BOOKS, March 2018

              languages: English, German

Setting: in a fantasy world with sirens and pirates;

                at the sea, the kingdom Keto and Midas, at 1650 – 1730

Main characters:

Lira:  siren princess of Keto, steels one heart of a prince on birthday

Elian: Prince of Midas, captain of the siren-hunting vessel

Sea Queen: rules over the kingdom Keto

Plot:

•                  story between two murders; wanted to kill each other

•                  Lira, crown princess of Keto and a siren hunting princess

•                  every year on her birthday she kills a human prince to steal his heart

•                  When she kills a mermaid and fails to get Elian's heart

•                  The Sea Queen transforms Lira into a human - robbed of her song

•                  until the winter solstice to deliver Prince Elian’s heart

•                  Elian, crown prince of Midas, captain of the siren-hunting vessel

•                  sails the seas with his loyal crew, killing sirens

•                  he first encounters Lira when he sees her in the sea after the Sea Queen took her power

•                  he rescues lira drowing in the ocean

•                  to help him find the key to destroying all of the siren-kind for good – can he trust her?

•                  they unite in a common quest, find the Crystal of Keto and destroy the Sea Queen’s power