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A review by tigerlilliereads
Gilded by Marissa Meyer
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
This book!
I have previously read another book by the same author and loved it and this one was no different. Serilda is seen as cursed in her village, they blame everything that goes wrong on her and she is constantly looked at with suspicion because of her unique eyes that show a wheel… the wheel of fortune…. When she talked she always talked in lies, spinning stories like spinning straw into gold. Yet these stories where always harmless… that is until the night of the full moon when she saves two Moss maidens from the hunt… where the evil Erlking with his terrible creatures and hounds sets off to steal children, kill monsters and more.
Wow! This story starts of as a retelling of rumplestiltskin but ends up so much more than that. With twist and turns that I was no expecting… okay I expected a few but I felt like I was constantly on edge trying to work out what was going to happen next. I wanted to figure out the end and find a way to save the characters from the impending doom. It’s definitely more than a simple retelling, Meyer is so good at adding so many layers to the story, creating dark and foreboding atmospheres and really grabbing the readers attention and emotions.
One thing… that cliffhanger was so so cruel! I kept seeing the pages numbers left dwindle down and worrying how they were going to wrap it all up and then book cliffhanger! Need next book now!
I have previously read another book by the same author and loved it and this one was no different. Serilda is seen as cursed in her village, they blame everything that goes wrong on her and she is constantly looked at with suspicion because of her unique eyes that show a wheel… the wheel of fortune…. When she talked she always talked in lies, spinning stories like spinning straw into gold. Yet these stories where always harmless… that is until the night of the full moon when she saves two Moss maidens from the hunt… where the evil Erlking with his terrible creatures and hounds sets off to steal children, kill monsters and more.
Wow! This story starts of as a retelling of rumplestiltskin but ends up so much more than that. With twist and turns that I was no expecting… okay I expected a few but I felt like I was constantly on edge trying to work out what was going to happen next. I wanted to figure out the end and find a way to save the characters from the impending doom. It’s definitely more than a simple retelling, Meyer is so good at adding so many layers to the story, creating dark and foreboding atmospheres and really grabbing the readers attention and emotions.
One thing… that cliffhanger was so so cruel! I kept seeing the pages numbers left dwindle down and worrying how they were going to wrap it all up and then book cliffhanger! Need next book now!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent