Gold
This stunning conclusion delivers satisfying endings for beloved characters caught in the final battles of the saga. High stakes, emotional payoffs, and ultimate revelations bring the series to a powerful close. The war reaches its definitive resolution.
Everything You Need to Know About Gold
Auren is in Annwyn, the fae realm she was stolen from as a child, and Orea is a world away. Here she is Lyari Ulvere, the golden one gone, a name that carries weight she does not yet understand. Annwyn is beautiful and rotten: a ruling class that punishes anyone with Orean blood, anyone without magic, anyone who will not bow. As Auren learns what her bloodline means, she stops looking for someone to save her and starts building something of her own alongside the rebels who want their realm back.
Back in Orea, Slade cannot reach her. The rips between worlds are sealed, so he does the next best thing: he goes after everyone who ever hurt her, one monarch at a time, while hunting for another way across.
Violence and war, persecution and prejudice against people with Orean blood, aftermath of captivity and abuse, character deaths, sexual content.
Auren learns she is heir to Annwyn's throne, which turns her from refugee into rallying point, and she joins the rebellion against the fae rulers who persecute anyone of Orean blood. Slade, locked out of Annwyn, tears through Orea on a revenge campaign against everyone who hurt her. Malina and Dommik, Midas's old assassin, escape the fae to warn the Sixth Kingdom that a slaughter is coming. The book is a bridge to the finale, so it ends with the war between realms primed rather than resolved.
Only for readers who have done the first four books, nothing here stands alone. If Glow's slower, character-first stretch worked for you, Gold pays it off with a bigger canvas: two worlds, a rebellion, and Auren finally operating from power instead of survival. Readers who mainly came for Auren and Slade together should brace themselves, they spend most of this book in different realms.
Book 5 of the Plated Prisoner series, and not the finale. Read Gild, Glint, Gleam, and Glow first, the story is continuous and this one picks up right after Glow's cliffhanger, with the series continuing beyond it.
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