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Raven Kennedy
The latest novel in the smash-hit Plated Prisoners by Sunday Times bestselling author Raven Kennedy'Find me in another life. Find me in them all' It all ends now. . . But Every end is also a beginning. I was supposed to die. If it weren’t for Slade, I would have. But he tore a hole the world I know and I went through it. To Annwyn. To home. Annwyn is the realm of the fae, a magical place full of beauty and danger. Here, I am known as Lyäri Ulvêre – the golden one gone. And there are people in this world who want to keep me that way. But I am not that girl in the gilded cage anymore, and I won’t be used again. Nor stopped on my way back to Slade. I am my own woman. And I will find him. In this world, or the next.'An emotional rollercoaster of a book that brings vivid and layered characters into a magical realm. The world building and pace is intricate and fast, this is a book you will race through' Glamour Praise for The Plated Prisoner Series 'Raven writes with a magic that comes to life on the page. Every single word gleams like gold' Beck Michaels, author of Divine Blood 'This is one of those series that started off phenomenal, and only gets better with every subsequent book' Laura Thalassa, author of The Bargainer Series ‘An astonishing world with captivating characters and a story you won't be able to put down' Ivy Asher, author of The Osseous Chronicles and The Lost Sentinel Series 'This series is amazing and I can't recommend it enough.' Kay Thatcher, author of Prince of Blades 'TEN GILDED STARS! Remarkably original. . . gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous' Olivia Wildenstein 'An emotional rollercoaster' Elizabeth Brown, author of Blood Crown*Gleam by Raven Kennedy featured on The Sunday Times bestseller list May 2023*
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Author
Raven Kennedy
Pages
672
Publisher
Penguin Books Limited
Published Date
2023-12-07
ISBN
1405955090 9781405955096
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"⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5
(This review will contain #spoilers)
I expected better, honestly. Gold lacked effort from a good author. I noticed that there was a decline in the story after Gleam, like Kennedy is dragging out the plot for no real reason, choosing to shove romance down our throats instead.
Let’s start with said forced new romances between the barely unique OsrikxRissa & MalinaxDommik (the former’s emphasized in Glow). Both couples have a lot of “I’ve only known you for 2.4 days, but there’s something about the way you piss me off - especially when you say something sexual - that really affects my body” energy. I get the love for popular tropes, but they’ve been recycled without a slight change in dynamic within these couples. It’s lazy. Man is smirking dom. Woman is bratty sub. Personality? Hah. I could de-identify the dialogue between each respective couple & I doubt many would know who’s who; they just lack their own unique voice. The development is incredibly rushed and again, forced, unlike Auren and Slade’s romance that at least allowed some sort of kinship to happen before connecting them. The two couples were metaphorically pushed together like Barbie and Ken dolls by the author after demanding “now kith.” Not to mention the completely inappropriately placed sex scene towards the end of the book - what was that? I love spice, I do, but seriously? Read the lifeless bodies in the room.
The story manages to progress, but not nearly as much as you’d think after almost 700 pages. A good portion of what I read was filler & dialogue; disappointing for the 2nd to last book in the series & after the slow Glow. The ending was unnecessarily too complex - why are we adding on more crap when none of the current crap has been handled? These last two books have been the edging scene in Glow. I’m ready for Goldfinch solely because I just want an end, though I predict a lot of convenient moments will arrive with a bow on top in order to recover from Gold’s ending in one book."
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