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Gild by Raven Kennedy

15 reviews

yarisbooksandbevs's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I felt like a lot didn’t happen in this book and it was a lot of Auren complaining about life. I’m glad that she started to take charge of her life and see that she has been consistently failed by the men she encounters

other than Sail. I loved him

I don’t really like Midas and I don’t trust him. He gives me the ick and seems emotionally manipulative to someone who is naive and traumatized. I hope to see Auren get him in the future.

I’m intrigued enough to continue but this book was a little meh for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Confinement, Misogyny, Infidelity, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Violence, Cursing, Death, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Gaslighting, Rape, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Blood, Sexual violence, and Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Trafficking, Infertility, and Vomit

hellodebbies's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Physical abuse, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, and Vomit

Minor: Grief

filipa_maia's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I have mixed feelings about this book.

I do appreciate this other side of the story. This is not King Midas' story (the one that everyone knows), it's someone else's... someone very important that stays in the shadows. Also, I very much enjoyed all this mystery around Auren, there is an aura of secrets involving her that kept me very focus till the end. Solving this mystery is exactly one of the things that is going to make me read the second book.

On a less positive note, this book is very hard to read: maybe I was distracted or maybe the trigger warnings weren't enough... I almost quit reading this book. Several times. I understand that women weren't seen as people, especially these women being King Midas' harem... but there is a less brutal way of describing some scenes. Honestly, the excessive use of some words were not to emphasise the narrative, but just to trigger the reader.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Abandonment, Blood, Bullying, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Sexual content, Colonisation, Grief, Confinement, Cursing, Sexual harassment, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Misogyny, Violence, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Torture, Slavery, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Infidelity, War, Alcohol, and Death of parent

Minor: Excrement and Vomit

katvou's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Violence, Kidnapping, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Alcohol and Slavery

Minor: Bullying, Grief, Animal death, Vomit, Excrement, War, Blood, and Gore

silviacea's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Death, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, Sexual content, Vomit, Violence, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, and Rape

lindsfranfrat's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, War, Death, Sexual content, Vomit, Gaslighting, Trafficking, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual violence, Blood, Violence, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

bryelle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This book is a good world builder but kind of long for just being a building book. There is no conflict resolution but just setting up for what I assume will be the plot over the next few books. Auren is prisoner of Midas. She is his favored, but he keeps her in a cage. Midas can turn things to gold or give them a gold coating? Midas saved Auren once in their past and so she is bonded to him.

Auren also has a golden touch power. We see her use this power to save herself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, and Slavery

Moderate: Trafficking, Classism, and Vomit

thefantasybookaddict's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Slavery

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Rape, Violence, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content

Minor: Vomit, Trafficking, Adult/minor relationship, and War

_book_nook_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

Finished in one sitting, made me cry, and actually want to read the next book. All in all a successful slump ender!

Nah fr tho I was sobbing when Sail died it's always the ones I adore and I need financial compensation for the emotional damage <\spoiler> Seriously the moment I almost put it down to go to bed the action started to happen and the only thing that was going through my head was it's not funny I have school

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Violence, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Rape, Murder, Kidnapping, and Trafficking

Moderate: Vomit and Alcoholism

jaymrtn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

So I went into this book with no knowledge of what it was about or what would happen. I have been hearing great things about this book for a while now but nothing could have prepared me for how amazing this was. Personally, it's not like anything I've ever read before. And as soon as this review is posted I'm going to start Glint. I 100,000% recommend this book. I can't wait to see where this goes. I'm honestly so shocked and I have so many questions. This book evoked so many emotions. I was and still very angry at a lot of the characters for the cruel ways they treated Auren and other saddles. I cried and laughed. (Also I want to say that I don't think that this book is a sure way to make you cry or anything. I tend to be an emotional reader. However, I do think that even if you aren't as much of an emotional  reader as me this book will still bring forth the strong emotions.) So stop reading reviews and READ THIS!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and War

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Car accident

Minor: Blood, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, and Vomit