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Gild
- The Plated Prisoner Series
- De: Raven Kennedy
- Narrado por: Zara Eden, Blake Lockheart
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,660
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,467
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,471
Gold. Gold floors, gold walls, gold furniture, gold clothes. In Highbell, in the castle built into the frozen mountains, everything is made of gold. Even me. King Midas rescued me. Dug me out of the slums and placed me on a pedestal. I’m called his precious. His favored. I’m the woman he Gold-Touched to show everyone that I belong to him. To show how powerful he is. He gave me protection, and I gave him my heart. And even though I don’t leave the confines of the palace, I’m safe. Until war comes to the kingdom and a deal is struck.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Annoying
- De Ris Gray en 10-07-21
- Gild
- The Plated Prisoner Series
- De: Raven Kennedy
- Narrado por: Zara Eden, Blake Lockheart
The story is so much better than the performance.
Revisado: 01-07-23
Seriously. Just read it. I promise you won’t regret it. I listened to all three books and had a hard time getting excited about it due to the performance. The same narrator for all three. I didn’t believe people with their reviews and thought they were being dramatic. :|
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The Death of Jane Lawrence
- A Novel
- De: Caitlin Starling
- Narrado por: Mandy Weston
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 346
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 292
Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. Her first choice, the dashing but reclusive Doctor Augustine Lawrence, agrees to her proposal with only one condition: that she must never visit Lindridge Hall, his crumbling family manor outside of town. Yet on their wedding night, an accident strands her at his door in a pitch-black rainstorm, and she finds him changed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Promising but Messy
- De W.Oberlin en 02-14-22
- The Death of Jane Lawrence
- A Novel
- De: Caitlin Starling
- Narrado por: Mandy Weston
a mind f**k
Revisado: 12-03-21
Firstly: performance was FANTASTIC. Mandy Weston needs to be hired to narrate more books.
If there is one thing I have to say about this book, it is that it has definitely changed my taste in fiction itself. It is marvelous, even though there are small gripes I have about it. I took notes as I read the book and here are my initial takeaways when I was done:
- The book started to slow down at Chapter 30-ish. It felt like it was being dragged out.
- While the author gives us plenty to work with of the mental state of Jane and what she is feeling or thinking, it is too much at times.
- I love the setting. Post-war England. Augustine is a doctor/surgeon, Jane is an independent woman/accountant.
- Characters are WELL developed- as I said before, the author is good at letting us know what Jane is feeling. I definitely came to care for all the characters after a short time.
WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW
- LOTS of twists and detail. I didnt expect for there to be magic involved at all, you'd never tell when reading the summarization of the book. The author did lose me a bit when explaining logic throughout the magic portion of the book. I think it could have been done well without the additional explanations towards the end. It did feel like much of a filler.
- I think the way that Jane spiraled downwards was well written. She is a character who perceives herself to have great self-control and self-awareness, and realizes to a certain degree her sanity and decisions/judgement is slipping with the use of her magic and need to save Augustine. She is powerless to stop her actions, though.
- I could not put the book down. I was anxious the entire time, which is good, because the novel is gothic horror, and I think the author gave us the feelings that were intended (or at least to me)
- Plot twist at the end with Elodie and the "spirits" haunting Augustine as a whole. Mind blown. The whole plot twist really just makes the ending a mind fuck.
HUGE HUGE SPOILERS:
- The fact that Jane went back and forth with wondering if Augustine was dead or not after that time was annoying, even though I know there was a point to it. But the fact that it was semi-established but not FOR SURE that Augustine died after Jane trapped him in the crypt was confusing as a whole. So, did he ACTUALLY die? Why did he die so quickly? I am just confused at his death as a whole. People can survive days without food and water.
- Also, the entire 7 day ritual thing was SUPER anxiety inducing. Edge on your seat the entire time it was happening. It was all really a mind fuck. Starling did fantastic with that.
So in the end, the questions I really had were:
- Is Jane the original Jane?
- Is Augustine the original Augustine?
I think the answers to that are 'no', but I personally need more.
- Yes, Jane did die, as the title stated. But she lives. Amazing. Beautifully ended. Everyone loves a good happy ending.
- Did Jane see him die as the ghost echo? They both saw each other die. It is hard to explain. But my question is, since Elodie never existed as a "ghost" and she essentially helped herself when she was alive after she had died (as a ghost), does that mean the events play over and over in the universe? How did she become that ghost in the first place? Are all these events eternal? did she TIME TRAVEL!??! is it because the world Jane was in after she died wasn't truly a certain type of place, you could do essentially anything in that "plane"?
- The whole Dr. Nizamiev situation confused me. I read somewhere her last name is Devil or snake in Russian. What was her intent in the end? She was the one who turned Jane onto magic, ultimately, to save Augustine.
- I wish I had more with Augustine. I felt bad for him. I need there to be a second book, even though we had closure! Hahaha.
Anyway, I hope this review was insightful. Definitely a book that made it to all-time favorites!
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