🕛Get Gleam: The TikTok fantasy sensation that’s sold over half a million copies (Plated Prisoner Book 3) by Raven Kennedy
Gleam: The TikTok fantasy sensation that’s sold over half a million copies (Plated Prisoner Book 3) by Raven Kennedy
THE TIKTOK FANTASY SENSATION THAT'S SOLD OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES, PERFECT FOR FANS OF SARAH J. MAAS AND JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT 'Read this series NOW! I felt like I was in the story watching and holding my breath the entire time' 5***** Reader Review 'Sexy and touching all at the same time . . . and that plot twist, OMG' 5***** Reader Review _______ Locked inside a new kingdom, with no allies of my own, something has been set free inside me. Something dark. Something angry. It is my anger that calls out to him: King Ravinger. Sinister, powerful and entirely too seductive, his danger is only outweighed by my unrelenting attraction. But I won't be caught in a cage again. No, this time, it'll be me setting the trap . . . _______ 'A spectacularly written, engaging, imaginative retelling of the ancient myth of King Midas' 5***** Reader Review 'I literally devoured this book in one sitting' 5***** Reader Review Read more
When I started this book it was one of those, “Oh, wow” moments. I could tell I was reading something incredible- something that was going to easily be up there with Sarah Maas’s ACOTAR series. There were so many really beautifully written lines that I found myself highlighting as I read. It was character growth and romance and grit. It was fantastically different from everything else in this genre. It was good enough to read the entire book in a day while at the same time knowing how much I would regret it when the story was over. Until the last 20%. I don’t understand what I just read. (Some spoilers ahead.) Auren was developing into this character that was finally standing on her own. One of the biggest problems a person might have had with this story is what a victim she was in her own life relative to the power she supposedly had. But that was part of the promise to us as the readers, right? We would see her full circle moment. And we do... but we see it in the last 20 pages of the book after something incredibly awful happens first and I cannot - truly cannot- get on board with the idea that what happened to Auren would have actually progressed to that point for two reasons. One, Auren demonstrated early in this book that she was capable of defending herself with her power. There were several -several- scenes before the awful scene where she could have taken control and, if her growth as a character to that point is to be believed- she WOULD have used that power. Two, there was a profoundly powerful love interest and his powerful team that were literally less than no where to be found during all of this- and it was the HUGEST turnoff to a romantic lead in the history of ever that he did less than nothing after awful thing is revealed. He said he would do anything to protect her and then he not only doesn’t, but for all the lead-up up to this moment there is the revelation of some really big plot holes, like: Where was Lu after she and Auren are stumbled upon by the third realm queen? Didn’t it seem like maybe she would go back and report to Slade, “Hey, creepy queen just dismissed me and wandered off with your love interest?” And then we don’t see Auren and Slade interact again after this scene- like, wouldn’t SOMEONE check up on her to be sure she was okay?! Where was Slade when the commander is taken? I cannot believe, even a little bit, that he would have shown up to the end scene and stood there like normal while one of his own was missing / captured. I kept waiting for some great reveal / strategizing/ something, but it was like he and the team were just hanging at the ball. And that leads to the ultimate question- Slade knows when Auren has been pinched a little by Midas at the dinner table in an earlier scene, but at the end he doesn’t figure out she’s in -extreme- distress until the last possible moment in this final really critical scene? And Auren then tells him to NOT use his power so that he doesn’t become the villain? No no no. The moment that Auren takes control with her power is okay, but was this necessary route to get there? I just don’t think so. And the epilogue rehashing of the final scene was so frustrating. It wasn’t really a cliffhanger, but it surely wasn’t a resolution. Even though the last 20% of this story is what will stay with me, and that’s truly unfortunate, it’s the first 80% that sparkled and I hope, truly, to see all of that in the fourth book. There is so so so much here.
ASIN -> B09YXB3F4X Publisher -> Penguin (May 17, 2022) Publication date -> May 17, 2022 Language -> English File size -> 28320 KB Text-to-Speech -> Enabled Screen Reader -> Supported Enhanced typesetting -> Enabled
