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Gold by Raven Kennedy

25 reviews

spatterson7's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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drewg's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

Per usual, Raven threaded the needle so well at the end of the book. And she even dropped bombs of things she’d added in books prior! But man oh man, does it take a while for everything to pick up. 
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emmawickum's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

would be higher if there was spade x auren like at all. 
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cassidy_99's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Auren is stuck in Anwynn fighting desperately to get back to Slade, but there’s no way back to Orea. Malina was a fool and made a deal with fae to gain magic…only the bridge of Lemuria was unbroken and the fae march upon Orea to kill. Auren meets Lord Cull, Slade’s father. Slade can feel Auren, but will he get to her in time?
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dkgreads's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I’m not a huge fan of middle books where two characters have been separated and you’re slogging through chapter after chapter waiting for their reunion, so this book DRAGGED for me. I’m also not a fan of Malina’s AT ALL, so her chapters were doubly painful. Though, she did redeem herself a bit, I guess. And WTF was that ending?! Book 6 is going to hurt, I can already feel it.
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dovahkiin_shea's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Didn't give it 5 stars because of how long the main characters were apart (and I hated that)
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blklitmagic's review against another edition

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adventurous tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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rachelharp's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

 
building a whole new world in book 5 is bold - we got some background from slade’s backstory and Malina’s fall but not enough to keep me engaged in the whole monarchy overthrow situation. It never felt like the stakes were high. I also hated that Slade became such a villain like he was honestly the worst. Also the whole Rissa thing was just annoying. QUEEN MALINA IS MY BIGGEST GRIPE!!! I was really looking forward to her redemption arc - we basically got Elsa 2.0 but all of her character growth was spurned because of a man and not on her own. Dommik came seemingly out of nowhere to make her who she was, when i feel like she could have got there on her own and it would have been better that way. I love enemies to lovers, but i wish they’d became lovers later after her own journey. It was trying too hard to be cassian/nesta but didn’t succeed in my opinion. The story really picked up the last 100 pages and I’m excited for the rest, just annoyed at this one.
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annikenr's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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beckyremillard's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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