“Do your worst, your Majesty. I’m ready for every twisted, dark thing you can dream up.”

I feel like this quote is exactly how I went into the Kingdom of the Wicked series, and the entire thing just failed to deliver.

A series about seven dark princes of hell, influenced by the sensory and sexy backdrop of Italy, was meant to be something special, and instead turned out to be something quite trashy.

In short, nothing made sense. Connections in a vain attempt to reel the story back to what it had been in the beginning were weak. I cared nothing for the characters and I cared nothing for the plot. This book can be read and understood, simply by reading the dialogue. The excessive descriptions and attempt at world building all amount to nothing.
Where book two at least had the fun element with the excessive smut, this book failed, even in that. All sexual acts were repetitive and just plain boring considering Amelia was having crisis, however, rarely with a seductive Prince of hell who constantly tells you, how enigmatic and dangerous and powerful he is in bed, I expected a whole lot more than this.

Smut aside, this series started out with a lot of potential but was not able to deliver as it succumbed to the pressure of adding swear words and sex scenes in order to make the forced transition from YA to “adult“. There was absolutely nothing adult about this.

The only positive for completing this series is that I have now completed the series lol and can remove them from my shelves. A win for #ReadYourShelf2023.