Glint (The Plated Prisoner Series Book 2)

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He seems to know more than he lets on and how exactly to push Auren towards facing the hard truths kept locked away and ignored in her mind. But all that I can gather at that time was, how fortunate the next person would be when he has her loyalty. Even though Auren is starting to question everything she knows, for the most part I still don't enjoy being in her head. This series has the political intrigue of Sarah J Maas, the romance of Holly Black and the world-building of Jennifer L.

Distrustful of fixed rhyming schemes, he throws his lines like garlands over the sentence structures, playing with internal rhyme and alliteration, closer to Dylan Thomas than Peter Huchel. This book picks up where the last one left off and I won’t explain the storyline too much as I don’t want to spoil it. It was beautiful and sad at the same time to see her start to realize that Midas might not be treating her right after all and that what he felt for her might not be true love. The frailty of bodies, a nearness to materials and manual work, the unknowability of our parents’ suffering, and ultimately the loss of childhood innocence, all loom large in poems where sound comes first. Recording this music requires such fluid syntax, allowing sentences to slip over and under each other to make new meanings.

He is supposed to be Auren's enemy, but he treats her with more respect and dignity than anyone else in her life. To conclude my review, the first book ended with an exciting cliffhanger and I knew and I was right! It got better than it started, not because of the “plot twists” (I saw ALL of them coming from a million miles away. As Auren tries to come to terms with the conflicting feelings she has for Commander Rip, and the fractures of trust she has in her King, she is also encouraged by those who are meant to be her enemy to step out of the role as the gilded prisoner, and be herself.

I enjoyed Gild but going into Glint, I wasn’t expecting to love it as much as I did, especially seeing so many reviews talk about the slow plot. The main focus of Glint is character development, as well as introducing a whole ton of new characters (Lu is my favourite) and taking the time to get to know them. She goes from a compliant captive, too naive to see how horribly she's been treated, to a young woman gradually realizing that she deserves much more than what she's been given.But it’s good to see that sex work can be good for those who do it, provided they have some power and get treated right. But what I’ve been trying to say is this: yes, you’ve seen variations of Commander Rip before, but you’ve never seen HIM before, and you’ve never seen it done this way, and that’s for both book 2 and 3, and I stand so firmly on that. It has something of the amphibrachic chant of early Celan, jolie-laide language, lower case, ampersands, a harsh and physical sampling of a childhood in a working landscape (the uranium mines) in the last years of the GDR.