Welcome to the Kingdom… where ‘Happily Ever After’ isn’t just a promise, but a rule.
Glimmering like a jewel behind its gateway, The Kingdom is an immersive fantasy theme park where guests soar on virtual dragons, castles loom like giants, and bioengineered species–formerly extinct–roam free.
Ana is one of seven Fantasists, beautiful “princesses” engineered to make dreams come true. When she meets park employee Owen, Ana begins to experience emotions beyond her programming including, for the first time… love.
But the fairytale becomes a nightmare when Ana is accused of murdering Owen, igniting the trial of the century. Through courtroom testimony, interviews, and Ana’s memories of Owen, emerges a tale of love, lies, and cruelty–and what it truly means to be human.
Jan’s Review
“I received this ARC as part of Miss Print’s ARC Adoption Program.”
This is an imaginative dystopian novel that is told in transcripts from a court case and the main story in the months before the trial. Kingdom is all about a fantasy world were seven hybrid humans have been designed to bring happily ever after to those who visit the park. The story follows one of the fantasist named Ana. She begins to become obsessed with a worker at the park and slowly uncovers that all is not what it appears to be. Telling the story in a court narrative surrounding the murder of a park employee really made the story stand out. The ending really makes it feel like their will more story to come but as of now it a stand alone. It really did not take long to read and once you get settled in you won’t want to put it down tell you finish.
