Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Kingdom Cum
SERIES: A Cox Fairytale #4
AUTHOR: James Cox
LENGTH: 80 pages
PUBLISHER: Evernight Publishing
RELEASE DATE: October 29, 2019
BLURB:
“Fifty gold coins to the man or woman who tries to break the king’s curse. Whoever should return His Majesty’s penis to normal will be named king or queen of the kingdom. Sign up at the castle, servants’ entrance.”
King Midae was beaten, robbed, and raped by the man he thought he loved. Heartbroken, he makes a pact with a witch for revenge, but it comes with a price. Midae is cursed with a golden penis—he can never feel pleasure again. Now, years later, men and women from all over the kingdom use his body in an attempt to cure him.
Only true love can conquer all, but can even love survive if the curse breaker is related to the witch who cursed him?
REVIEW:
It’s been a long time since I’ve read King Midas, but even if you haven’t read it or it’s been years, you can still see the parallels between the stories. To a point. James has definitely added his twist to it. It’s a good story. Really good, but I must warn you, there are trigger points to this story. If you read the blurb, you will see the biggest of them. But there is a bad part in the revenge as well. I don’t want to give away the story in any way, but it’s a gory scene. So if any of that bothers you as a trigger, please be careful. Otherwise, it’s a heck of a story and a reminder to a lot of things.
Midae, when he was younger, thought he in love with the stable boy. Just a prince at the time and a teen, he was still finding his way. He sneaks out one night to meet the boy he thinks he loves, only to be lied to and then beaten, robbed and raped by his so called lover and another boy. Let for dead, he makes it far enough to be found and is on the mend. But Midae is forever changed after that day. He has grown cold, distant, closed off and greedy. So greedy in fact, he reneged on a deal and was cursed with his golden dick. It would take someone special to break the curse and Midae is convinced he will never find the person. Even if he finds the one to truly break it, will it change who Midae has become or will he remain the coldhearted man that he is?
I feel for Midae. I really do. Even the greed, to a point. Or the reason behind it. He’s so far into his head about what has happened to him everyday, he doesn’t see what he is doing to his kingdom. All he sees is he has to have all the gold and people will be punished for not giving it to him. But that’s no way to live. And even if the witch was pure evil, he did owe her. It wasn’t her fault he didn’t get to extract his full revenge. So, as evil is she may have been, I can see why she cursed him. The whole point to it, was he had a lesson to learn. Revenge isn’t always the best solution, for one, and greed will consume you. Even if there’s a reason behind it. Even if Midae had a reason for the way he acted, and he had one for sure, you still have to remain some sense of humanity. And it’s hard, especially when you feel like you can’t trust anyone. But not everyone should suffer for the mistakes of others who are evil.
PTSD is a harsh mistress. She holds on tight and don’t let go. It takes time and sometimes the right person or circumstances in order to help ease it. Though it never goes away. For Midae, he had to find the true person he needed to end the curse, but for himself, he had to learn to change and be better, regardless of what happened to him. It’s not fair to punish many for the sins of a few.
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