A review by teachreadrepeat
Gilded Princess by Penelope Black

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

2.5

Can we start a petition for all authors to include SOMEWHERE before the book starts that it is a spin-off series of another one? In the summary or in the pages before the story actually brings, maybe? I spent the first 100 pages of this book trying to figure out if I started the wrong book first or if the author was trying to reference/allude to events we would learn about later. Didn't realize until book 3, when I went looking at the author's other work, that I realized there's a while 3-book series that takes place before this series. The first book also progressed a little slower than the rest, but Penelope Black truly is the queen of cliffhangers and by the end of this book I was hooked enough to continue reading.