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Gilded by Marissa Meyer

14 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

faerylullaby's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, Child death, Suicide, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Grief, Pregnancy, and Kidnapping

Minor: Sexual content

clairew97's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Body shaming, Violence, Torture, Cannibalism, Grief, Stalking, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Abandonment, Animal death, Death, Blood, and Body horror

kaiyakaiyo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

3.0

I think overly high expectations based on the author’s other series ruined this for me. Most of this book dragged, and the interesting bits felt like a splash of flavor to get me interested in book 2. 

The romance felt very trite and the supporting characters were incredibly flat. The setting/universe is really interesting, but it’s left so unexplored for the first half of this giant book. 

The ending is pure sequel tease. I really hate when authors can’t wrap up a book in a series well & rely on a cliffhanger 

I already purchased the second book along with this one bc I was feeling optimistic; I’ll read it to see if maybe things heat up. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Self harm, Pregnancy, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Violence, Torture, Murder, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Abortion and Miscarriage

sunrae_booknook's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

First book of the year down. I loved this. I always forget that Marissa Meyer has such a way with words that really makes yourself get lost in the book.  I love retellings and she’s the Queen on them. Can’t wait to jump into Cursed! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Murder, Suicide, Violence, Confinement, and Kidnapping

Minor: Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, Abortion, Gaslighting, Confinement, Slavery, and Panic attacks/disorders

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

laneys_library's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Vomit, and Abortion

lalabeths's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

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

4.0

❤️ Love ❤️
- Marissa Meyer 
- retelling of folklore in new way
- gruesome / dark nature of Grimm tales is kept 
- writing style 
- can’t wait to read the next 

🍅 Meh 🍅
- could predict parts of the book pretty easily
- the romance aspect felt very sped up 
- pacing was ok

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Blood, Murder, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide, War, and Violence

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Abandonment

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

jen1804's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-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

2.5

Not sure how I feel about this book. It’s obviously the first in a series as the ending is left very much on a ‘what happens next?’ vibe. If it was a stand alone then the ending would be extremely disappointing. 
It felt quite YA, and the main character’s depth of emotions seemed really shallow which was a shame. She goes through so much loss and yet I don’t feel the book really explores the grief an 18 year old would be experiencing at the loss of her father, especially after seeing him reincarnated as what is essentially a zombie before needing to then decapitate him, like that’s gonna give the girl some trauma and yet Serilda seems very okay throughout and I don’t find it very realistic. Similarly, the way her emotions are so simply described causes the reader to achieve no great connection to Serilda and thus when further tragic events occur, I found myself feeling no sense of loss or heartbreak for her.
I found the romance between Serilda and Gild happened really fast and overall it was bizarre, it’s not built on much at all and I found myself thinking ‘what, why???’  whenever things seemed to progress between them. I wanted more depth and more complex relationship threads to be woven.
The main character herself is kinda weedy and a bit pathetic, she does not have a strong personality, or any real strength. It is a rumplestiltskin retelling where she heavily relies on the assistance of Gild and his power to spin straw into gold whilst she just sits and tells him stories. The ending gets a bit more interesting when her story telling becomes a way of actually achieving something. I’m used to badass female main characters in fantasy books and this simply did not deliver, but I expect I will read the second book to see whether her character builds into someone more powerful. 
Satisfactory ending? No, but there’s a second book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Murder, Violence, Child death, and Suicide