Thank you to NetGalley, Bloom Books, and Raven Kennedy for this e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

Raven Kennedy is the queen of fantasy romance. This is a set up for the rest of the series, so it is a little shorter and less romance focused than the rest of the series will be, BUT I SEE THE VISION! I can already kinda tell who I think will be the main love interest for our FMC (🤭) and I am so excited to see that love story unravel. Although this was a harder book to get through due to some of the trigger warnings (please check) and our FMC has a lot of personal growth to go through, I can tell this is a start of an EPIC story🩷

This book is such an interesting take on the King Midas tale. Breathing new life into an old tale, Raven Kennedy writes an amazing new, fresh story. Coveted by King Midas as his one golden touched, Auren is trapped (literally) in a life she thought was better than being left on the streets. Everyone thinks she’s living the most privileged life as his favorite, but no one knows how dark and lonely it is on the inside.