A Taste of Gold and Iron

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Evemer is assigned to Kadou, and before meeting him, has an intense hatred for the prince, due to an incident that occurs in the opening of the novel. The slow-burn romance between them is beautifully done and adds a thrilling element to the story that readers will savor. I feel like there are so many beautiful elements of the story I haven’t even spoken about, and others I’ll never be able to do justice.

The rest of the land around was mostly flat forest or open farmland, rising to gentle hills further inland, and thence to mountains deep in the backcountry to the east and north. Tessa Gratton Witty, clever, and often extremely funny, Rowland's tale of a prince who doesn't want power but has it anyway – and must survive all the risks that brings with it – somehow manages to be both soft and hard-edged, clever and kind. Rowland’s main interest here is not the mystery or even the fantasy but the romance between Evemer and Kadou. Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog.Except for Melek, who I glomed onto because çe was nonbinary and acespec, the rest of the kahyalar are forgettable. I grew up reading all the big YA fantasies and was disappointed every single time I didn’t see myself represented in the stories.

The water-sparkle tasted faintly reddish, as if it were the light of sunset, or colored by the smoke of a wildfire.In one of his two very earliest memories, he was knee-high to all the adults, clutching at the skirts of his mother’s silk kaftan and burying his face in them from shyness whenever strangers looked at him—and there were so many strangers looking at him, smiling at him, bowing to him and Mama. So this definitely wasn’t the kind of book that immediately grabbed ahold of me from page one and didn’t let go until I’ve finished it.