This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
This is the start of a page-turning, unforgetable fantasy set in a city peopled with ruffians, spies, malcontents and murderers. Experience out-of-this world adventure and dangerous politics as Maggie tries to survive waking up in her favourite fictional world.
A heart-pounding epic from No. 1 New York Times bestselling author duo Ilona Andrews.
When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy, and naked in a gutter, it doesn't take her long to recognize Kair Toren. It’s a city she knows intimately from the pages of a famously unfinished dark fantasy series – one she's been obsessively reading and re-reading, while waiting years for the final novel.
Her only tools for navigating this gritty world of rival warlords, magic, and mayhem? Her encyclopaedic knowledge of the plot, the setting, and the characters' ambitions and fates. But while she quickly discovers she cannot be killed (though many will try!), the same cannot be said for the living, breathing characters she's coming to love – a motley band that includes a former lady’s maid, a deadly assassin, various outrageous magical creatures, and a dangerously appealing soldier.
Soon, instead of trying to return home, she finds herself enmeshed in the schemes – and attentions – of duelling princes, dukes and villains. This all while trying to save them and the kingdom of Rellas from the ending she’s seen on the page: a cataclysmic war.
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me is the beginning of the most epic adventure yet from genre powerhouse writing duo Ilona Andrews. For fans of Samantha Shannon, Sarah J. Maas, Danielle L. Jensen, and isekai portal fantasy.
‘Exciting, complex, with indelible characters and a heroine who cannot die: loved it'
Charlaine Harris
‘Absolutely brilliant! This is the kind of book that will make you forget the world exists’
Sarah Beth Durst
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Being the world’s biggest fan of an unfinished fantasy series turns out to be surprisingly useful survival training in this wickedly inventive portal fantasy from Ilona Andrews. When Maggie wakes up in a gutter in the city of Kair Toren, she realizes she’s somehow landed inside her favourite dark fantasy series, which she’s spent years obsessively rereading. Her detailed knowledge of the story’s scheming warlords and feuding princes is her only advantage as she bonds with an unlikely crew and races to stop the catastrophic war she knows is coming. Andrews nails Maggie’s sharp and funny internal voice, building high-stakes tension around the challenge of knowing her new friends’ fates before they do. Maggie’s habit of weaponizing her superfan expertise against enemies who have no idea what she knows is endlessly entertaining, and the slow-burn tension between her and a dangerously compelling soldier makes This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me a thoroughly satisfying read.
