If Fairy Tale wrecked you with wonder laced through grief, let The Kingdoms by fracture time itself.
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- Time fractures like memory—disorienting & gorgeous
- War-torn alt-history grounds the impossible real
- Ordinary hero, cosmic stakes, zero pretension
- Heartbreak fuels every twist & timeline
If Fairy Tale hit you with that ache for childhood wonder filtered through adult loss, The Kingdoms delivers the same punch—portal logic draped over war-scarred timelines, where every shift backward feels like remembering a dream you can't quite trust. Natasha Pulley grounds her fantastical leaps in the brutal realities of amnesia and altered destinies, giving you King's emotional grit without the small-town Americana wrapper. This isn't high fantasy posturing; it's an underdog thrust into cosmic wrongness, clawing toward redemption one heartbeat at a time.
The intimate bonds here—fractured friendships, loyalties tested across rewritten histories—echo the dog-and-mentor warmth you craved in King's tale, but with sharper edges. Pulley writes like she's seen some shit, too, and she's not apologizing for the darkness or the hope.
It's an underdog thrust into cosmic wrongness, clawing toward redemption one heartbeat at a time.
What Readers Are Saying
"When I came to the end of this book it felt like my heart had expanded...The Kingdoms is the epitome of emotional excellence...It’s sweeping and enthralling and has so much heart; I just adored it." — Blair, Goodreads
"everything about it was designed to fit precisely, perfectly into the contours of my heart...Pulley has a voice unlike any other. Her storytelling is distinctive, so utterly inimitable in its style. There is an intoxicating subtle magic in her books..." — chai (thelibrairie on tiktok) ♡, Goodreads
"Elegiac, liminal, fragile, aching. This book hurts but in such a good way...Characters who are brittle and fragile as glass, complex and unthinkingly brave." — Nicole, Goodreads
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