Thank you MacMillan Publishing for this book in exchange for an honest review
Synopsis:
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.
Review:
Let’s get the negative out the way and go in for the gold.
The only thing that didn’t hit the mark of this one was the fact that the ‘park’ wasn’t really detailed. I imagined a Disney kind of experience but scarier, like the princesses were robots and high on oil and children’s souls.
Other than that. I loved this. The story jumps back and forth to the court case and then back to the beginning and it jumped smoothly. At no point were your thrown out about the timeline switch and you could easily follow the story.
The story focuses on Ana, who is on trial for killing a staff member of the park and is also a cyborg princess that is one of the special characters that people pay to see in the park.
You get to see the court transcripts, interviews with Ana as well as the disturbing life that Ana and her fellow princesses of the park get to experience on the every day to day life. Yepp, the dads are a massive fan of those princesses.
This was easy a book to read in one setting and I loved it!
Rating: 4/5
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781509899388
Sounds interesting. Will add it to my TBR.