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The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)

Namina Forna

Start date: September 1, 2021

Finish date: September 30, 2021

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May 14, 2021 AziaMinor rated it liked it

Shelves: bad-ss-broads

Overall Rating : C+

"I don't even know if it's possible, if someone, somewhere in this vast world will ever love someone like me - the unaging, unchanging offspring of demons - but I want to find them. Want to survive long enough to experience that kind of love: loyal, unflinching, steadfast. The kind of love that Mother gave me before she died. The kind of love that Katya and Britta seem to command so easily.
And I don't have to do it alone."

Great message with an amazing beginning. But it really ...more

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Sep 30, 2021 Johanna rated it it was ok · review of another edition

This was overall okay, after the first 50 %. The last part was even thrilling and that made the reading more pleasurable. This wasn't easy to read for me but it wasn't bad either.

Characters wasn't really fleshed out, some of them were almost only names. Characters are important for me so I was a bit disappointed. I still felt that there was potential: Britta was so awesome friend for Deka and I felt for one of them so strongly when reading about her past. But there was also love-interest in the ...more

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May 16, 2021 akacya ❦ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: genre-fantasy, black-authors, ownvoices, audience-young-adult, format-ebook

After a ceremony determines that Deka isn’t one of the village members, she runs off to be with alaki, an army of near-immortal girls who are like her. On her journey to train in the capital, many surprises are thrown her way.

I thought the plot was executed very well. Honestly, the blurb doesn’t do everything in this book justice, which is understandable, because I’m having trouble putting it into words myself. It was original and unlike anything I’ve ever read before. Additionally, the characte ...more

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