Published: October 16, 2020
Length: 402 pages
Format: Kindle Edition
Genre: Romantasy
Characters: Auren and Midas
POV: Auren’s, 1st person

𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:
꧁•⊹٭ dark fantasy ༊*·˚. fae ༊*·˚. retelling ٭⊹•꧂
⚠️ 🅆🄰🅁🄽🄸🄽🄶 ⚠️
∗ This book contains explicit content and darker elements, including mature language, violence, graphic sexual scenes, violence, abuse, physical assault, slut-shaming, mention of child trafficking, misogynistic, gaslighting, Stockholm syndrome, death, and rape. It is not intended for anyone under 18 years of age ∗
⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ Your mental health matters. If any of these topics are sensitive to you, please proceed with caution or skip this one ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆

Review

I use to have low tolerance with book that starts with a sex scene right off the bat, and this opens with an orgy, and not even a well written one. Not to mention the content of it. Rape. Mental and physical abuse. Human trafficking. Cages! I do not appreciate books that romanticize contents that are actually crime in real life. If I could give this book 0 stars I would.

“A cage is a cage, no matter how gilded.”

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ This is book 1 in The Plated Prisoner Series.

Gild
Glint
Gleam
Glow
Gold
Goldfinch

Blurb

The fae abandoned this world to us. And the ones with power rule.

Gold.

Gold floors, gold walls, gold furniture, gold clothes. In Highbell, in the castle built into the frozen mountains, everything is made of gold.

Even me.

King Midas rescued me. Dug me out of the slums and placed me on a pedestal. I’m called his precious. His favored. I’m the woman he Gold-Touched to show everyone that I belong to him. To show how powerful he is. He gave me protection, and I gave him my heart. And even though I don’t leave the confines of the palace, I’m safe.

Until war comes to the kingdom and a deal is struck.

Suddenly, my trust is broken. My love is challenged. And I realize that everything I thought I knew about Midas might be wrong.

Because these bars I’m kept in, no matter how gilded, are still just a cage. But the monsters on the other side might make me wish I’d never left.

The myth of King Midas reimagined. This compelling adult fantasy series is as addictive as it is unexpected. With romance, intrigue, and danger, the gilded world of Orea will grip you from the very first page.