A review by evamadera1
The Gilded Crown by Marianne Gordon

3.5

The details of some books I can remember with relative ease. Mid-books, though, fail to make an impression one way or the other. I thought that this book had a chance of working for me, a slim one though. Mid-books do not stay on my shelves. After a brief look at the synopsis, I do remember enough to finish my review. The main character has the ability to bring people back from the dead, at a cost. Because of this ability, people both want to use her "services" but also disdain her because the controlling religion abhors the practice. When the queen brings her assassinated granddaughter and heir to the main character's door, the main character becomes deeply entangled in the court, forced to raise the princess any time she dies. Everyone in the main character's life, including the ungrateful princess, take the main character for granted and treat her horribly. Somehow, we're supposed to believe that the main character falls in love with the princess. The author made some choices that put me off this story even though in the beginning, I found myself intrigued enough to give this one a chance.