I read other reviews that said this was two books in one. One was good, one was less so. And I tend to agree.

I enjoyed the story of Cloris Waldrop, the 72yo woman lost in the wilderness after surviving a plane crash. She was a vivid and lively character, and I found her storyline compelling and mostly well-written. I also think there could have been something interesting in the moral questions raised by her life being saved by a fugitive on the run for crimes against minors. As it was, this was less fleshed out than it deserved to be. But if I were to rank Cloris' chapters in isolated, this was easily a 3/5

Ranger Lewis' story on the other hand was a drag to read. I didn't care at all about any of the characters. I found her motiviations difficult to parse out, and didn't feel like I had a good grasp of her character even after the book spent 50% of it's length with her. I also found her to be a bit... gross. Like, just not a nice person, but not even in an interesting way. 2/5

Overall, there just didn't feel like enough justification for the two stories to exist alongside each other. Thematically, there wasn't a strong enough connection, and Lewis was considerably worse written than Cloris. "Kingdomtide" could have been a fine book, but it shot itself in the foot and ended up being a below-average book.