De gouden gevangene van Raven Kennedy is een duistere en betoverende fantasy, geïnspireerd op de mythe van koning Midas. De auteur herwerkt de klassieke legende tot een modern verhaal over macht, manipulatie en vrijheid. Centraal staat Auren, een meisje met goudgetinte huid, wiens reis naar kracht en onafhankelijkheid lezers wereldwijd heeft geboeid.
This is the story of King Midas. Or that's what we're always told. The Golden King with his palace of riches and me, the girl he turned to gold. Upon the snowy mountains in the Sixth Kingdom of Orea, I'm locked away in Highbell Castle. It's for my safety, I'm told. Away from the dangers of the world below. No one can get in. Apart from him
For ten years, I lived in a gilded cage inside King Midas's golden castle. Now I'm the prisoner of the Fourth Kingdom's army, with no hope for escape. And behind all of my worries, there is Commander Rip: the renowned brutal warrior of Orea
I was told that being confined was to keep the bad out . . . Until i realized it was about keeping me in Midas made me forbidden and weak. Little did he know that I would find my voice which sings now. Something has ignited within me. Something dark. Something angry. Then comes King Ravinger. And the last thing I wanted was my heart to break. Can I fall in love when my fate hangs in the balance? One thing is for sure, I won't be caught in a cage again. This time, it'll be me setting the trap
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Every end is also a beginning. I was going to die. If it weren't for Slade, I would have. But he ripped the world open for me and I went through it. To Annwyn. To home. Annwyn is the realm of the fae, a magical place full of beauty and danger. Here, I am known as Ly ri Ulvare - the golden one gone. And there are people in this world who want to keep me that way. But I am not that girl in the gilded cage anymore, and no one is going to use me again. Or stop me from finding my way back to Slade. I am my own woman. And I will find him. In this world, or the next.
One king caged my body. Another has caged my mind. War has broken out between Annwyn and Orea, though that's not the only battle being waged. There's a fight inside me, and it's one I'm determined to win, no matter how much they try to strip me down and hollow me out. Yet they've forgotten one thing. The ancient magic of the pair bond. One can never truly be lost when two souls are already bound. Because Slade and I? We are connected by more than just fated magic, and we will always find each other. In any life. The fae king is trying to destroy me. My heritage. My memory. But what he hasn't realized is this: gold bends, but stone breaks. And a Goldfinch does not fall. It flies.