Glow: The dark fantasy TikTok sensation that’s sold over a million copies (Plated Prisoner, 4)

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You are mine, and I am yours, and whatever pleasure you seek, I will be there to watch you get it, and I will feed it to you tenfold afterward because you are mine, and I will see that you get what you need.” Auren is made to stand on runes that drain her magic. Kaila gives evidence and they find Auren guilty of stealing Midas’s power and killing him. They think she stole King Rot’s power too. This book was entirely Auren being a petulant child, Slade being guilt ridden and reliving his daddy issues, and yet another pending war entirely hinged on that Auren is just a worthless evil saddle. Honestly, the writing is so repetitive. It needs a good editor. And again, we see the same insta-love nonsense beginning with Osrik and Rissa, copying Auren and Slade’s romance arc almost word for word. The side characters hardly mattered at all in the time I read it. This was a mess. This whole series was far from perfect, but this book just really took it to a whole new level.

i shouldve known better. i shouldve anticipated this. after the ending of book 3, i got too excited; hence i expected too much of this installment. this book is all about healing & world building, which makes so much sense considering the events in the past three books. however, it all just felt sooooo boring😩 She enjoys writing all kinds of books, because each one brings a different experience. Whatever the genre, she hopes she creates characters you can root for. After that massive cliffhanger from Gleam, I have been eagerly waiting for this next installment in the series. And overall, I enjoyed this story. However, as many have already stated, it was a filler book. There's nothing wrong with filler books. In fact, I believe they are necessary for most series longer than three books. So as far as filler books go, this was done well, but there were a few things that didn't work for me.Second, I wasn't feeling Slade's character, here. Something was off as his character started to develop into a gaslighting love interest and I really did not like that. Several times in this book Auren voices her confusion at her life in general and how she desires to not be lead by or be dependent on a man - Slade's response was to tell her that she was his, he was hers and not to worry her pretty head and then he seduced her. Multiple times. Where is the line between romance and not listening to Auren's needs that she was clearly voicing? I'm really confused as to why his character developed in this way and it ruined the second half of the book for me, a bit. This is one of those series that started off phenomenal, and only gets better with every subsequent book' - Laura Thalassa, author of The Bargainer Series Slade at last proving & showing hes the most powerful ruler in all Orea and doing all kinds of villainous things to protect Auren If you're interested in more in-depth commentary with quotations and examples, read on. If you still plan to read this book and don't want to be spoilered do not read on. I pause, ears straining, but all I hear are faint sounds from the city below and the constant draw of the waterfall at the base of the mountain.

One question before we start: Have all those ARC readers, giving 5 stars, received a different copy than we did? A different book, maybe? There were new POVs I did not expect but I enjoyed and they were appropriately sprinkled around the book but they don't overwhelm the POV chapters of Auren and Slade, those extra POVs are integral to the plot and there's a new romance on the horizon.You get the picture. Unfortunately for me, this wording takes away from the moment and makes these sex scenes incredibly unsexy. I know a lot of other people who enjoy the spice though, so I think it comes down to personal preference. Auren's Cleansing for the Conflux seemed like a nod to Game of Thrones, and I LOVED it! Honestly, all I could think about was the similarities between this scene and Cersei getting ready with Septa Unella and her walk of atonement. Reading about fanatical religious groups that try to cleanse the body/spirit brings up my religious trauma. I absolutely hate them with a passion and would love nothing less than to see them burn. I hope Queen Isolte and her fanatics get what they deserve. First, the positive: despite its flaws, this series is compulsively readable. I never want to put the books down, even when they annoy me. That’s such a man thing to say,” I reply with a slight roll of my eyes as I take another bite. “Women in this world have to be more careful. Perceived reputations can be life or death.”

Suddenly, my trust is broken. My love is challenged. And I realize that everything I thought I knew about Midas might be wrong. Please read those numbers again and tell me, those povs were relevant to the story. They were not. 37 for Auren is okay, don't mind that at all, she's the female main character we've been following around for four books now. 19 for Slade were way too many in my opinion, especially because the major part of those were in the first 30% of the book and you could have reduced them to a fourth of that, without losing much (or anything at all), and most of those later ones focus on his spice-appearances while the first few were blown up so much. That’s the thing with trauma to the body—it shows up instantly. In breaks and bruises, in burns and in blood. But the trauma on the inside, that’s harder to see. It creeps around your mind, poisons you with disquiet. It can hit you out of nowhere, debilitating and ruinous. There are no marks visible for those. None, save the shadows in your eyes. Every female character is the exact same weak, helpless, whiny petite figure who hates a specific male but can’t do anything unless a new male helps her do it.But is the cost too great, this time? Things really begin to crumble in this story, collapsing around Rip in a torrent so strong he almost begins to lose his cool. Events collide, people turn, and he loses some very important support-or rather, it hangs on a very precarious balance-that makes him question everything. But, another thing I just love about this series, is Rip’s Wrath. They support him always, they’re the friend group I never knew I needed, and I love that they add some much needed levity in an otherwise somewhat darker story than we’re used to-and that’s saying something when a lot of it has centered around sex work and children being kidnapped to do so. Maybe this is just my take and this one effected me differently, but the triggers are not gone nor did they disappear-they just continue in different forms, so be warned. But returning home means facing danger and secrets. So I have to burn bright enough to light my own way…