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Gold by Raven Kennedy

5 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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booksalacarte's review against another edition

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

3.5

3.5⭐️3🌶️

Book 5
Adult Romantic Fantasy
Dark Romantasy
Multi POV
King Midas Reimagining
Fae
War
Separation
Revenge
Rebellion
Secondary POV slow burn
Redemption



I waited too long and have forgotten basically everything. But I’m almost glad I did. The recap was drawn out, but by chapter 10 I remembered what I needed to remember with a few little helpful parts. But for the most part this was a slow paced book. RK was comfortable skipping long periods of time between POV chapters in her previous books… I’m not sure why this one had to include every second.

This was a heavily side character building book. It felt like filler for the over arching plot and main characters. For a 600 page book… that’s not a good thing. We get a redemption arc and romance for one character. We get Auren’s backstory. We get some world-building in the fae realm… but we don’t get resolution to anything.

There is one spicy scene between side characters and it really was out of nowhere and not good timing. At. All. Like normally grey timing… which I guess fits, but it still gave me the ick. 

There is quite a bit of repetitive internal monologue. Nothing new for the series with that.

But the ending plot twist is interesting. I will finish the series. 

The Plated Prisoner Series Book Reviews:
Gild- 4⭐️3🌶️
Glint- 4⭐️2🌶️
Gleam- 4⭐️4🌶️
Glow-3.5⭐️4+🌶️
Gold-3.5⭐️3🌶️
Goldfinch- August 29th, 2024

Thank you NetGalley and Sorcebooks Bloom Books for the eARC of this book. All opinions are my own.

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winterwoodbooks's review against another edition

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

5.0

For my taste, this is the perfect fantasy book.

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meaghcol48's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional inspiring tense fast-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

5.0


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yarisbooksandbevs'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? No

5.0

This book wrecked me and is probably the best one in the series. There’s so much emotional growth and grief. We get to see these characters really struggle through some of the most difficult challenges they’ll face.
Malina really surprised me and I’m happy and proud of her redemption arc. I think it was done really well.
the plot moved along nicely and the changing povs felt like I was watching a tv show. The cliffhanger had my jaw dropping. I can’t wait for the next one.

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