Gleam (The Plated Prisoner Series Book 3)

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I go completely still as he moves his hand and grips my chin, like he wants to make sure I'm paying attention. You are?" I go completely still as he moves his hand and grips my chin, like he wants to make sure I'm paying attention. The plot. The reveals. The twist on the myth of King Midas. THE SPICE. All of it had me squealing and screaming and crying and all around freaking out. Not to mention the prose - so well done, so unique, so wonderfully descriptive that I can envision this world of magic and politics and love and loss as if I am there, living in it, experiencing all that Auren does. Read this series NOW! I felt like I was in the story watching and holding my breath the entire time' 5***** Reader Review

I won’t allow another storm to touch Auren. She has been flooded and wrung out, left to take the barrage without shelter. But so long as I’m here, I will be her shelter. ALSO SHE DID THAT!! THE WAY SHE UNLEASHED HERSELF MADE ME JUMP OUT OF MY SEAT AND HOOT IN SATISFACTION. So there could be 100 more lines in which is claimed that there is power or calm in submission - if the other part of that encounter doesn't understand consent, it's nothing but garbage recounted over and over again to make it seem okay. It's not. It's harmful and disgusting. And it's an offence to all those other authors managing to actually pull powerful submission off. End of story. What happened in the end made me kind of mad but not at Slade. It’s more at the circumstances. The fact that everything is gonna go to shit in the next book because of all the loose ends makes me mad. Cutting off the ties of those who are toxic to your well-being is an extremely hard task that demands unimaginable courage and strength.PS: His father can rot in hell. I know he will show up in the next book, and I hope Slade makes him pay! When she’s not reading or writing, she’s with her family, probably messing up a recipe or going on a hike that she thinks she can do, but in reality she can't because she remembers that all she does is sit at a computer all day and write her heart out. 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.

warnings: mentions of human trade and sexual slavery, captivity, emotional manipulation, physical and psychological abuse, and drug consumption. I'm even more delighted to spend more time with his Wrath and witness the turbulent sibling relationship between him and his brother Ryatt. Digby also remains the precious father figure to Auren. The sun,” Auren answers quietly, tone filled with a tentative, innocent joy. One that you’re afraid of saying too loud in case it breaks. “She’s singing to me.”

If you love Slade, well … this is Slade’s book. He owns it. We learn so much about him, past and present. Just when I thought I couldn’t love him more, too. I was very happy and completely enthralled with every piece we learn about him. I think everyone will be very happy. With the right person, there is power when you kneel. There is adoration with submission. There is balance with control. I’m now in a strange kingdom surrounded by liars, with no allies of my own, but I won’t sit idly by and let myself wither. No, there’s something that’s bloomed from the pit of my repression. Something dark. Something angry. I expected to see more of Slade but I was delighted to get to know him in a new light and on a much deeper level. I got to understand and see the many facets of him: from Slade to King Rot and to Commander Rip. And that’s what makes my eyes sting with regret. He pushed me to light, to burn, only to douse me with ashen deceit.