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Gilded by Marissa Meyer

12 reviews

caroline_peacock's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, Death of parent, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Grief, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Suicide, and Child abuse

Minor: Sexual content

amyvbxx's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

This is a really easy read and I find it does have you reaching for the next one the duology as soon as you've finished. 
However the second book in the duology is slightly more compelling.
I enjoy the romance of the two main characters although at times it feels rushed, this is not a book for slow burn lovers. It is easy to get past though as the plot is enticing and interesting to follow

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Child abuse, and Death

Moderate: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

millyfox's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, Violence, Blood, and Child death

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Gore, Abandonment, Confinement, Animal death, Body horror, Blood, Grief, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cannibalism, Child abuse, and Sexual content

soupymsc's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious 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

4.0

Easy read and I enjoyed the mystery of Gild's past. They spent a little too much time on the fluff on every moon but when things happened in this book, they happened.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Child abuse

uranaishi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Blood, Cannibalism, Self harm, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Sexual content, and Suicide

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Infidelity, and Pregnancy

thecatconstellation's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

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

3.5

I went so back and forth with this book. There are parts that I really enjoyed and I will definitely read the second one. But at times it felt like this was dragging on, and I don’t particularly love any of the characters. I also found it at times just utterly depressing for no reason, like things being sad not for the plot but just to be sad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Blood, Child death, Death, Murder, Animal cruelty, Violence, Confinement, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Abortion, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Physical abuse

Minor: Sexual content

kbairbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

It’s tricky because I believe Marissa Meyer is a master at her craft. This was genius storytelling, in my opinion, but I also don’t like scary things and I would classify this book as horror. Sooo I’m amazed by the storytelling and horrified by the contents.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Torture, Pregnancy, Slavery, Suicide attempt, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Murder, Suicide, Violence, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Abortion

nrogers_1030's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

TW: lots of death & children aren’t excluded

• Also I don’t think my review has any spoilers, but 🤷🏻‍♀️ 

Okay, so here’s what I love: the storyline, it’s great. I love the fairytale creatures, the haunted castle, all of it. At times, it did get a bit repetitive. What’s the one thing.. well person, that drove me up the wall? SERILDA. Her constant lying had me wanting to drop the book. It’s such a pet peeve of mine. It’s so hard to not get worked up over it. Granted, she has some redeeming qualities, but it’s really hard to like her. She’s a liar and she’s a bit dense… like how many times does everyone have to tell her how magical bargains work!?! 🤦🏻‍♀️ 
That being said, I adore Gild and he makes up for her.  I really like what’s going on in the story and the cliffhanger is absolutely maddening! I’ll def be reading the sequel… even though Serilda will be in it 🙄😂

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Violence, Blood, Child death, Death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Torture

grace_p's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Animal death, and Child death

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Sexual content

taelights's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

At about 50% I was tempted to dnf this but I decided to unfortunately finish this. 

Serilda is such a boring, unlikable main character. I didn't care about her at all as she was a whining self-sabotaging character. She chooses to lie all the time and takes pleasure in doing so but then she gets herself in bad situations and complains how no one trusts her. Plus some things she lies about just cause me to roll my eyes because it's ridiculous she would even lie about them. Her actions often annoyed me and had me not caring about her at all. 

The romance was very boring. Insta love often annoys me especially. Then unnecessary unplanned pregnancy is literally the worst romance trope ever. But especially the fact that it was unplanned TEENAGE pregnancy. gross. 

Also this book dragged so much. It could have been half as long because there were so many unnecessary scenes. The fact that it's going to have a sequel is ridiculous. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, and Death

Minor: Abortion

Teenage pregnancy, unplanned pregnancy, accidental pregnancy