Name: Kingdom of the Feared
ISBN: 9781399703222

Kerri Maniscalco

Two curses.
One prophecy.
A reckoning all have feared.
 
And a love more powerful than fate. All hail the king and queen of Hell.
 
Emilia is reeling from a shocking discovery about her sister, Vittoria. But before she faces the demons of her past, Emilia yearns to claim her king, the seductive Prince of Wrath, in the flesh. She doesn’t just desire his body; she wants his heart and soul—but that’s something the enigmatic demon can’t promise her.
 
When a high-ranking member of House Greed is assassinated, damning evidence somehow points to Vittoria as the murderer. Now, Emilia will do anything to get to the bottom of these accusations against the sister she thought she knew.
 
Together, Emilia and Wrath play a sin-fueled game of deception to solve the murder and stop the unrest that’s brewing between witches, demons, shape-shifters, and the most treacherous foes of all: the Feared. Emilia was warned that when it came to the Wicked, nothing was as it seemed. But have the true villains been much closer all along?
 
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kerri Maniscalco delivers sizzling romance, sexy secrets, and unexpected twists in this unforgettable conclusion to the Kingdom of the Wicked series.

Kingdom of the Wicked #3

Kingdom of the Feared

Genesis (@whisperingchapters)

Love and hate are both rooted in passion. Strange how that line becomes blurred over time.

He looked like he was a breath away from pouncing. I practically 

 the tension snapping between us and I leaned into it.

Sarah

I used to love wearing flowers in my hair, now I loved watching them turn into pretty weapons and destroy my enemies.

Sarah Campbell

"Doesn't matter." Wrath litted a shoulder. "I always knew you. And always will. Your soul calls to mine. It's a feeling of coming home. Of peace. No magic can duplicate it." For a second, I forgot how to breathe. We held each other's gazes, and after a moment, Wrath's lips curved in a troublesome grin. "Plus, no one manages to look at me with such fury and desire like you do.”

Demi

"'As above, so below.' They are the balance. Light and dark. One fallen from above, and one created in the underworld below."

Jenna

"Remember, stay close. Strike fast." The prince paused with his hand on the knob, then shook his head. He grabbed me around the waist and kissed me hard and fast. "If you die on me now, I’Il hunt you down and drag you back."

Olivia Doone

through the air, sinking into Lust's shoulde. "What the fuck, Greed?" Lust yanked the blade free, glaring at

Brittany

“You struck the match; I hope you meant it when you sala you enjoyed the burn."

 "Rise," he said softly. "Just as they always feared you would." 

Twisted though it may be, that was the power of love. It could usher in warmth and light, and it could also turn a single ember into a raging inferno, destroying those who threatened it. Love might be the worst sin of them all, with its two sides.

"Eventually, you’ll learn to focus on the present and let the past go." He guided us down a side street I knew well. "Reliving what could have been but never will be is pointless. It'll only hold you back from what you are. One of the hardest things anyone can do is live in the here and now. Not worry about the future, not rehash the past. Be present, that's the secret to changing your future. To finding true happiness."

"Standing back so someone can walk the rest of their path alone is often the most difficult part, especially when you care."

"My plan is to not plan anything. To take one day at a time. This is the Seven Circles, and things change swiftly here. I like to watch what happens after the puzzle is pieced together. What happens after that last chapter? That is the part of the story I'm always most intrigued by. Who rises up next, a hero or villain? There are certainly many more tales that have yet to be told.”

Ruth

He looked like someone who understood, intimately, what it was like to lose everything. To be forced to stand when you wished to fall. To get up on your own and then defy the hand of fate that brought so much pain by smacking you down time and again. To choose to live and flourish despite the bad. And most important, to dare to dream of better days while your current world was a living nightmare.

"Subtlety isn’t your strong suit.” “Subtlety is for cowards, my lady."

Levi-Mae 

‘We were beings fuelled by rage, by passion.’

“I like to watch what happens after the puzzle is pieced together. What happens after that last chapter? That is the part of the story I’m always most intrigued by. Who rises up next, a hero or villain? There are certainly many more tales that have yet to be told.” 

I LOVED this book! Such a great accumulation to an ongoing story of demons, goddesses, and witches. The passion and love between the characters builds and builds. I couldn’t stop reading!

Amanda 

“if you die on me now, i’ll hunt you down and drag you back.” 

if you clicked this despite the spoiler warning, this is your second warning. i am about to spoil the shit out of this book because i fear there is no words, but so many at the same time to describe how this book made me feel. 

let’s start off with some of the side characters: evny, hated him the first book, warmed up to him the second, and now i absolutely adore him. the way he helped emilia, “rise. just as they always feared you would.” in reality he was one of her biggest supporters (besides wrath obviously). 

lust, although he didn’t have much book time whenever he did i guarantee you i was giggling. his little snide comments in the most serious or romantic times was the highlight of some chapters. 

now, the plot line. while i felt like it was chaotic, it was a soothing chaotic. so much was happening, but things were actually getting answered this time. 

EMILIAWRATH!! do not even get me fucking started. their chemistry was everything to me. the way they literally were prepared to die for eachother and wage war on other sins just to save one another. lord i could have died. 

wrath loved emilia so much he was forcing his feelings away so she wouldn’t be ripped from him again. and emilia loved wrath so much she gave up her magic???? like you can’t tell me they aren’t soulmates. 

when emilia broke the curse and wrath said i love you and he was so scared she’d just vanish. MY HEART. 

THE ENDING SCENE?! he gave her half his powers?!? lord i started full sobbing, it was so embarrassing. 

all in all, this book was everything. spectacular. amazing. erase my memory so i can read it again. THANK YOU.

UPDATE: have now read this three times and i love it even more every time. 

“if you die on me now, i’ll hunt you down and drag you back.” 

“sounds rather threatening.”

“it’s a fucking promise, my lady.”

~ ♡ 5/5

if you clicked this despite the spoiler warning, this is your second warning. i am about to spoil the shit out of this book because i fear there is no words, but so many at the same time to describe how this book made me feel. 

let’s start off with some of the side characters: evny, hated him the first book, warmed up to him the second, and now i absolutely adore him. the way he helped emilia, “rise. just as they always feared you would.” in reality he was one of her biggest supporters (besides wrath obviously). 

lust, although he didn’t have much book time whenever he did i guarantee you i was giggling. his little snide comments in the most serious or romantic times was the highlight of some chapters. 

now, the plot line. while i felt like it was chaotic, it was a soothing chaotic. so much was happening, but things were actually getting answered this time. woohoo! 

EMILIAWRATH!! do not even get me fucking started. their chemistry was everything to me. the way they literally were prepared to die for eachother and wage war on other sins just to save one another. lord i could have died. 

wrath loved emilia so much he was forcing his feelings away so she wouldn’t be ripped from him again. and emilia loved wrath so much she gave up her magic???? like you can’t tell me they aren’t soulmates. 

when emilia broke the curse and wrath said i love you and he was so scared she’d just vanish. MY HEART. 

THE ENDING SCENE?! he gave her half his powers?!? lord i started full sobbing, it was so embarrassing. 

all in all, this book was everything. spectacular. amazing. erase my memory so i can read it again. THANK YOU.

UPDATE: have now read this three times and i love it even more every time. 

I did really enjoy this, and catch myself grinning often. I’m so happy with the ending and the relationships / dynamics between each characters, as well as a newer involvement of one. I am curious as to where that will go. I did feel like this would be more high stakes and full of tension when it wasn’t really, but that didn’t really take away from the story and how i felt towards it. A lot of it was very predictable, which obviously isn’t great because i couldn’t follow along with the plot twists.

Aimee :)

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stalking Jack the Ripper series comes the dazzling conclusion to the Kingdom of the Wicked trilogy.

Linara K.S

i'm sorry but by the start of the second book i knew this trilogy was a plane crash waiting to happen.
The first book: Amazing. 
The atmosphere of mystery and paranormal activity within old Italy is just *chef's kiss*. There was an actual progression to the romance both coherent to the plot and the characters. Both Wrath and Emilia had distinct voices and personalities. And I loved watching them interact and banter. 
The second book: Puzzling. 
I thought we would be entering a new era for our characters and new stakes that are both higher and give them more purpose. We got that, yes. But boiiii was I disappointed by Emilia's decrease in agency and Wrath's constant simping of Emilia. I mean... You're a powerful man with a role to fill in. And never once do I see him play the leader excpt for dramatic effect. His title is overused and only emphasises his 'danger' whenever Emilia and him has any 'spicy' scenes.
The third and final book: Plane fucking Crash. 
There's NOTHING. This book is void of a plot and anything sensibly needing of a story. I don't want to pause on every little thing that bothered and angered me because if I did I would be here too long. 
PS: I hated Emilia in this book.

So this book was the nail in the coffin that told me this series wasn’t for me. It also so happened to be the last book of the series. This book has so much but nothing at all and I couldn’t get into it. Most of this book was really spice, which is weird for it being a YA book, and very little plot that made sense because I didn’t know who was the good guy or the bad guy, I had no idea what was trying to be accomplished, and everything felt rushed and hastily explained. I honestly gave up about 60% in because of how many times this book gave me whiplash. I kept saying after I finished book one and two that I was curious of the next one but I should’ve just saved myself the time and stayed that way. Take my review with a grain of salt because a lot of people like this series I just couldn’t get into it because of how random it all felt when reading it. 

Priscilla Stanfield

2.5/5⭐️ • 3.5/5🌶️

So this book was the nail in the coffin that told me this series wasn’t for me. It also so happened to be the last book of the series. This book has so much but nothing at all and I couldn’t get into it. Most of this book was really spice, which is weird for it being a YA book, and very little plot that made sense because I didn’t know who was the good guy or the bad guy, I had no idea what was trying to be accomplished, and everything felt rushed and hastily explained. I honestly gave up about 60% in because of how many times this book gave me whiplash. I kept saying after I finished book one and two that I was curious of the next one but I should’ve just saved myself the time and stayed that way. Take my review with a grain of salt because a lot of people like this series I just couldn’t get into it because of how random it all felt when reading it. 

got very boring and predictable once resolved main issue

Soph

I am not very fond  of the whole everything-was-a-lie thing. However I really enjoyed this book. I’d the the second one was the best from this series but this one comes shortly after!!!

rudolf

I am not very fond  of the whole everything-was-a-lie thing. However I really enjoyed this book. I’d the the second one was the best from this series but this one comes shortly after!!!

I loved to see their happy ending❤️

Megan

liana

Sidney Schaffner

akynn 

breakdown:

pages 1-275: 5 stars
pages 276-358: 3 stars
pages 359-end: 4 stars

Ariella

Necesito saber si esto será una saga porque no me puede dejar así.
Final para los portas EXCELENTE, pero los demás personajes??? Hay demasiados plots que descubrir sobre ellos.

mirin

leaning more towards 3.5 cause the plot felt a bit messy and i wanted to know more about the other characters in the story (ya know.. cause it's the final book in a trilogy) but still loved the journey and so happy for the ending of emilia and wrath. 

also horny bonk can they ever be alone in a room together without getting jiggy with it???

Good - just not as thrilling and new as the first & second book were.

sharkie

sophie

It was fine (better than the second book because things were actually happening) but not great. It was confusing, the characters fell REALLY flat (main character had so much plot armor and then the “evil” characters alternated erratically between randomly malicious or secretly super nice), and the ending was eh. The conflicts felt really forced and I never really understood what was happening or why it was happening.

Daphne Li-Chen

Charlotte Massie

** spoiler alert **
           I have mixed feelings about this one!


I can’t actually rate it 4 stars, it’s more a 3.8 ⭐️. I think Kingdom of the feared was better than the others but I enjoyed it less. We finally had answers! And Emilia is fighting for love and freedom wich is beautiful. Her relationship with Wrath takes a sweet and passionate turn and I loved it. I actually liked Envy in this book, we can see more of him. Which makes sense cause the next book is about him. He just seems misunderstood and sad and lonely. I see a friendship between him and Emilia developing and it’s cute. 

Now throughout the entire book I hated Vittoria. But at the same time I kind of liked her mean and cruel persona. I have mixed feelings about her too. I could have liked the idea of Emilia turning evil, as long as she stayed with Wrath, but she did not let herself be influenced by Vittoria and she stayed true to her heart, so I was happy about that. 

I stared reading this book months ago, but realized I wasn’t in the mood (at the time I was in a big reading slump) so I kind of dnf it and kept it for later, and I recently got back into it. I think yet again I wasn’t in the right mood for it, but I still finished it. Maybe it’s just that I wasn’t enjoying it as much as I did with the two first book. I did not like the amnesia and lost of powers tropes. But thankfully Emilia retrieved power at the end. 

But Emilia, felt to me, stronger, smarter, more independent and she believed in herself, and so did Wrath. He trusted her and her decisions, enough to let her leave him in the dark sometimes. Emilia will be a great queen!

To be honest, Kingdom of the feared reminded me a lot of Once a broken heart!

Betty

Didn't enjoy it as much as i was hoping I would.

Redwineandbookplease

I don’t understand why the sister was the villain for a hot second, they finally f*cked, glad it’s over.

Jennifer

vittoria is my girl ( i need a book about her and pride and claudia/lucia rn)

i hate the “fmc loses her powers at the end” trope even if she technically got some of it back at the end.

it’s the way all the sins grew on me and i started disliking the one i initially preferred (greed)

vittoria is my girl ( i need a book about her and pride and claudia/lucia rn)

i hate the “fmc loses her powers at the end” trope even if she technically got some of it back at the end.

it’s the way all the sins grew on me and i started disliking the one i initially preferred (greed)

Wow; second time completing this series. Still so incredible.

Kingdom of the Feared Kingdom of the Wicked #3