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A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland
5.0

Holy moly, this book was lovely. It incorporated a lot of elements that I just adore in my romance novels, with the bonus of a really engaging cast of characters. They're all so vibrant, and you really get a strong sense of the community in the palace and the individual voices of Evemer and Kadou (also I would die for Evemer tbh.) The romance plot itself is very much a slow burn, but it feels justified and doesn't slow down the pace at all. As a character reader, I kind of zone out through the plot bits and didn't get too invested in the whole mystery and I think that was fine.