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The Gilded Ones

Namina Forna

3.99 AVERAGE


TL;DR: A girl gets killed a bunch of times in a gruesome torture because women with power are scary. Then she goes to school to kill others because… you know… why not?

I liked the unique magic of the world. I really enjoyed the characters and the plot twists. However! I should have stopped reading after this book because it was too gruesome for me.

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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adventurous hopeful mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

4.5/5

I was not the target audience
I could have enjoyed it were it not for the spelling out of all those vulgar utterances
I don't even feel that it was okay, but I stuck with it to avoid it being yet another book I have spent my hard-earned money on that I cannot read to the end

First of all I read This with my friend RoRo and we had the same opinion. I liked it, but the book moved slow at the beginning but the end was really good and was nice. I loved the characters but I dont like hiw she added her love interest in the middle of the book.

4.5⭐️ this story was super captivating and I loved all the elements of the story overall. The found family was so good, and I enjoyed the romance subplot. I would definitely describe this as upper YA!
adventurous challenging emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I really loved this book!