I know all this is triggery for some people, so I thought I should preface it ahead of time, no matter where my review takes me.īut memory and time aren’t friends. I can’t quite pinpoint when I started loving this series (HA LIES, LIES DETECTED), but I think I did the moment a certain someone sauntered onto the scene.Īnd I know books aren’t about the male leads but, in this specific case where the males are pig-headed, toxic, woman hating slugs who get off on a woman (Or women) with Stockholm Syndrome, yeah… I can get behind a sexy man walking into the story who understands what it is to take care of a woman or treat her as an equal.Īnd I bet you’re shocked I even brought this up, as it never really is something I touch base on, but this book is heavily reliant on the power men hold above women and how they can abuse that power, especially when they are regarded with status and flash. That being said, though, this book was clearly a set up, a path leading somewhere that has been wondrous and addicting through and through. Also, talk about having trouble picking the shelving tabs, wow. With romance, intrigue, and danger, the gilded world of Orea will grip you from the very first page.įull disclosure, for those who do not read my lengthy reviews, that I have already finished book two and started book three, and those are far superior to this story. This compelling adult fantasy series is as addictive as it is unexpected. But the monsters on the other side might make me wish I’d never left. And I realize that everything I thought I knew about Midas might be wrong.īecause these bars I’m kept in, no matter how gilded, are still just a cage. Until war comes to the kingdom and a deal is struck. And even though I don’t leave the confines of the palace, I’m safe. He gave me protection, and I gave him my heart. I’m the woman he Gold-Touched to show everyone that I belong to him.

Dug me out of the slums and placed me on a pedestal. In Highbell, in the castle built into the frozen mountains, everything is made of gold. Gold floors, gold walls, gold furniture, gold clothes.

Gild books