9/16/2023 0 Comments To kill a kingdom book age rating![]() ![]() ![]() She commands Lira to steal Elian’s heart, and Lira pretends to lure Elian to the water. She tells him to go, and he reluctantly does.īefore they can reconcile, the Sea Queen attacks and turns Lira back into a siren. He manages to slip away from the pole, but with his hands still tied, he can’t help Lira. Soon, the crew of the Saad shoot cannonballs at the Xaprár, and one breaks the wooden pole to which Elian is tied. Rycroft ties Lira and Elian up in a room belowdecks, and when Elian wakes up, he tries to escape. The Xaprár crew surround them, and Elian is knocked unconscious. He tries to kidnap Elian to make him climb the Cloud Mountain, but Elian and Lira fight back. Rycroft is one step ahead of the prince and reveals that the man who told Elian about the Crystal was part of the Xaprár crew. Rycroft invites Elian onto his ship, where Elian asks if Rycroft knows where to find a (fictional) stolen Midasan heirloom, hoping that the pirate will allow him to search his stash. His aim is to trick him while looking for the Págese necklace that is the key to the Cloud Mountain chamber. The Sea Queen then tells Lira that she must hunt for the heart of a regular sailor for her birthday, taking away her glory as “The Prince’s Bane,” the siren known for killing only princes.Įlian has Lira pose as his new girl when they meet Tallis Rycroft, the ruthless captain of the Xaprár. ![]() Lira offers to take Khalia’s punishment to protect her from the Sea Queen’s wrath, and the Sea Queen beats her and crushes the heart she stole. When they return from their hunt, the Sea Queen isn’t happy and decides to punish them both-Lira for hunting too soon, and Khalia for not stopping her. She only steals hearts from princes, and since the ship is the only vessel on which the Adekarosin prince sails, she decides to take his heart while her cousin takes the queen’s. Though Lira is still two weeks away from her birthday and therefore not supposed to steal a heart, she notices that there’s a prince aboard the ship. They stalk a human ship, and when they are close enough, they begin to sing their hypnotic siren song, which will lure their human victims into the sea and to their deaths. She promises to help him find the key to destroying all of sirenkind for good-but can he trust her? And just how many deals will Elian have to barter to eliminate mankind’s greatest enemy?Īlexandra Christo's young adult novel To Kill a Kingdom is a thrilling fantasy adventure.Lira, a young siren, is tasked with taking her younger cousin Khalia out to hunt for a heart for her birthday. When he rescues a drowning woman in the ocean, she’s more than what she appears. Hunting sirens is more than an unsavory hobby-it’s his calling. The ocean is the only place Prince Elian calls home, even though he is heir to the most powerful kingdom in the world. Robbed of her song, Lira has until the winter solstice to deliver Prince Elian’s heart to the Sea Queen and or remain a human forever. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the one thing they loathe most-a human. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. ![]() This action-packed YA debut pits a deadly siren princess and a siren-hunting human prince against each other as they fight to protect their kingdoms. ![]()
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